17 months ago

Ascendancy ThumbnailLevel 32 Purity of Elements Shadow3.22

Life: 4850%
ES: 31
Mana: -71
eHP:
436
Resistances: -34%/-34%/-34%/-60%
DPS: 0
Hit Chance: 100%
Config: Boss, Power
Bandit: Kill All
Pantheon: Soul of Solaris
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Gear

The Whispering Ice
Astramentis

Gems

Purity of Elements
Clarity
Herald of Ice
Icestorm
Cyclone
Cast while Channelling
Inspiration
Concentrated Effect
Freezing Pulse
Volley
Added Cold Damage

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Level 18 (19 passives)
Caster MasteryCaster Mastery
  • 6% increased Cast Speed for each different Non-Instant Spell you've Cast Recently

Notes

I like getting Mysticism for making flame dash feel really nice while leveling. We'll be dual wielding wands anyway.

Once you have Whispering Ice:
Prioritize Unspeccing the dual wield nodes. Invest into Utmost Intellect.
Then the life nodes to go CI. Make sure you're wearing ES gear throughout your character and have int rolls on things.
THEN the elemental damage nodes at the start.

By act 3 there are only 8 nodes to unspec. 11 if getting cruel preparation and life mastery.

Poggers tip, if you can buy a crown of thorns for cheap (depends on the league) once you have your Whispering Ice, consider getting the ES from helmet doubled mastery north of the scion lifewheel.

You can use herald of ice instead of Discipline if grabbing the life nodes and going deeper into the acts. But keep clarity and Purity of Elements on. You really should have a whispering ice, no matter how garbage by act 6-8 in a normal league.
Just keep following the normal tree and drop the herald for discipline when it feels right.

Gems
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Either Follow Cold DoT Jungroan gems progress and follow the ORIGINAL tree but grab the life nodes and elemental focus NOTABLE to right of shadow start while skipping dual wanding nodes OR
Racer meta rolling magma. If hipster - below.
Act 1 - 
Freezing Pulse - arcane surge - volley | move level 1 arcae surge to frost bomb for added cold at Brutus.
Frost bomb - 

At Merveil - 
Creeping Frost - added cold or leveled arcane surge - pierce | use gmp instead of added cold in act 4 if continuuing. 
Frost bomb - arcane surge (level 1) - flame dash or Frostblink
Sniper's mark - clarity

Get flat damage added to spells on your wands if you can.

Act 2 - 
Blood Rage if  comfy using life flasks.
Herald of Ice and clarity.

Act 3 - Purity of Elements, Discipline
Frostbite

I'd use Vortex - bonechill - arcane surge if continuuing so you've got 2 skills doing damage. If you find a 4l, use lmp in creeping frost until you can get gmp.


Ever since they killed the vendor craft, wands haven't been the same for leveling. But if you dual wield them, you'll still have a fair bit of damage until you get Whispering Ice.