Wintertide Brand Elementalist 4 Stone Completion Build Diary!

Hi all! Slinky here with my 4 stone completion build diary updates. For those who do not know me, I do build diaries with my leaguestarts to share my thoughts on testing new things, such as Pact of Ghorr and Drowning Domain in this video, as well as any odd changes that I'm trying. I make a Wintertide Elementalist leaguestart guide, so this builds off of that into testing new things. I also play in a private league with my community, so the options available for upgrades are more limited than trade, but more varied than SSF.

POB in the video: https://pobb.in/nvNEWYyXruJZ

Brief summary:

We've swapped to CI because I'm lazy and do not want to worry about chaos res, but my energy shield number is much lower than I suggest to people--I'm okay with it personally but you will eat deaths to low hit pool.

All four stones were pretty easy, with only eating one death to Exarch ball phase(golems) and one to Maven(my own panic during memory game + lasers). I'm still on a 5 link, so if you are on a 6 link, things would be a bit faster.

I tested our Pact of Ghorr, and I'm mixed on the feeling of it. It doesn't work with Wintertide Brand(hoping this is a bug), so we use it on our Cold Snap(doesn't work with vaal cold snap) to get the debuff going. It isn't super worth running for mapping content, but I'll have to test it more on pinnacles/ubers once I farm more for those fragments. The downsides of the Pact(plus the extra button press) can be a bit debilitating for general mapping.

I did recently get the Drowning Domain from the new bloodline. It acts as a sort of DoT culler. You get a large domain around you that will build up Brine Rot on enemies taking DoT within it, then you can frostblink away from them to pop that extra damage.

That's most of it! There's more finer details, but I don't want to bog down with a lot of walls of texts.

This will likely be my last build diary update posted on here, because I don't want to be annoying with my content, so other updates will be on YouTube and my community discord if you want to follow along further.

If y'all have any questions or comments, please let me know! I'm happy to help people with their troubles with the build(or Elementalist in general) with any advice I can provide :D

Stay sane, Exile!