HUGE Screen Clear and Facetanking Bosses - Ice Nova Hybrid Caster Inquisitor Path of Exile 3.17

THIS IS THE BUDGET POB, THE FULL VERSION CAN BE FOUND IN THE DESCRIPTION OF THE VIDEO THE INFORMATION HERE MAY NOT BE ACCURATE BECAUSE THE NOTES ARE COPIED FROM THE ENDGAME VERSION ---------------------------------------- WARNING WARNING WARNING ---------------------------------------- THIS BUILD REQUIRES A LOT OF SPECIFIC GEAR TO FUNCTION AT AN ACCEPTABLE LEVEL PLEASE BE WARNED THAT IT WILL NOT FEEL GOOD UNTIL YOU OBTAIN THESE TWO ITEMS Forbidden Flesh & Flame with Instruments of Zeal Crafted 8 Link Helmet (Crafting Notes in a below section) THIS BUILD ALSO FEELS WEIRD TO PLAY YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ALSO The DPS listed on the left will pretty much never be accurate as the actual damage you do is based upon how well you play the build. The DPS on the left is assuming you are just hard casting so assume 75% of that damage if you are playing properly because you have to stop to use Frenzy. --------------------- INTRODUCTION --------------------- Please check the most recent build guide on my YouTube channel at https://youtube.com/c/bigducks Liking my Videos and Subscribing to my YouTube channel help me to keep bringing you more content like this, if you just grab the PoB please consider giving me a like to help me out, I appreciate all of your support! Keep in mind there may be multiple videos per build, always look for the most recent video. Ice Nova + Frostbolt Spellslinger This is a hybrid Self Cast + Spellslinger build that utilizes Instruments of Zeal This build is meant to be map clearing build that can function as a bosser (however good luck seeing literally anything under the massive amount of spell effects :) The main focus of this build is to be durable enough to survive while still having solid clear for things like 80% Delirious Maps and Invitations. We scale our defenses and recovery through a few ways. Armour Life Energy Shield Block + Recovery on Block Life Leech Maximum Resistances Hybrid Regen (Consecrated Ground) As for damage we are mainly focused on scaling Spell stats that are relevant to an Inquisitor, we completely ignore elemental resistances so stats that affect that are not used. Critical Strike Cast Speed Spell Damage Elemental Damage Area of Effect ------------ RATINGS ------------ GOOD -> Bossing, Clearing, Elemental Damage Taken, Chaos Damage Taken, Trade League, Softcore. MEH -> Physical Damage Taken, Playstyle, Survival, Damage Taken Over Time, Movement Speed, BAD -> Cost, Solo Self Found (Requires specific Uniques and Items to function), Hardcore. DIFFICULTY OF PLAY - VERY HIGH The build requires an excessive amount of abilities being used consistently and on time to do damage. It also requires you to understand the main rhythm of going back and forth between attacking and casting. The build has RIDICULOUS amounts of on-screen effects and it is almost impossible to see what you are doing. You have been warned...again. ----------------------- CONFIGURATION ----------------------- The current configuration is set to reflect the damage you would do while clearing maps and then finishing off a map boss. It does not do any "PoB warrioring" and should reflect typical boss damage you could do during a map. You will need to adjust for any alt qualities that you don't have or your personal gem levels/qualities. For accurate damage on a boss account for turning flasks on/off. -------------------------- ALT QUALITY GEMS -------------------------- There are a TON of alt quality gems used on this build due to them scaling very well with Ashes of the Stars. That being said only ONE of them is mandatory in my opinion and that is Divergent Frostbolt. The reason for this is that we need our Frostbolts moving VERY SLOWLY to get solid uptime on boss damage. You can modify how slowly they move by adjusting the quality on the gem itself. --------------------------------------------- FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS --------------------------------------------- Q: Bandit? A: Kill All. --- Q: Pantheon? A: Arakaali and Yugul --- Q: How do I level up this build? A: This is an extremely advanced build and I suggest that you use a Twink leveling guide to level it as you will need a LOT of money to get it functioning anyways. You can use Frostbolt or Freezing Pulse with a Battlemage weapon if you want an idea. --- Q: How do I stop dying? A: BOSS SLAMS WILL KILL YOU ON ALMOST ANY BUILD. YOU CANNOT TANK BOSS ATTACKS IN PATH OF EXILE WITHOUT A *VERY* SPECIFIC BUILD. This build relies mainly on Armour, Block, Spell Block, Maximum Resists and Recovery to Survive. That being said make sure you have the following: 75+ of ALL Elemental Resist (Resistances max at 75, having a bit over will help for ele weakness maps etc.) 50+ (Ideally 75+) Chaos Resist. Armour, Block, and Spell Block are VERY IMPORTANT and you should focus on getting as much of these as you can. Armour will provide us with Physical Damage Reduction as well as make our Molten Shell more powerful. Block and Spell Block are our sources of complete damage avoidance. When you Block a Spell or Attack you take ZERO damage from it. However we use Glancing blows so we will take 65% of the damage. We can get Maximum (75) of both of these with high investment. High tier Life roll on every piece that can have life Some pieces can have % Life on this build, such as Jewels, Belt, etc. Keep your Flasks up at all times while clearing. --- Q: How do I do more damage? A: Invest more money. Look at the different pieces of gear, all of them are important to get more damage out of this build. Alt Qualities, Better Wand / Shield, Better Jewels, better Gems, etc. --- Q: There are a lot of auras listed in the skills section, I feel like I will have no mana left, how do I cast my abilities? A: You can craft -mana cost of non channeling abilities but the main way that we sustain our mana cost is through Fanaticism, without it active you cannot cast your abilities. --- Q: What about Clusters? Do I HAVE to use them? A: Yes, you need the Small Cluster with Mana Reservation Efficiency, but technically you don't need the Large, its just good. --- Q: My question isn't in here, what do I do? A: Double check that you have looked through the video and this PoB. If you can't find it you can join my discord, linked in the description of all of my videos. Please remember that the people in the discord channels are very helpful but it is not their job to assist you. This is a knowledge based game and you have to put in the work to be successful. ------------------ LEVELING UP ------------------ To be honest with you, if you need help leveling up, this build is probably not for you. It is very in depth and very complicated. Look for a Twink Leveling guide. You can use Frostbolt or Freezing Pulse with the Battlemage Node from Inquisitor. ------------------------------ GENERAL PLAYSTYLE ------------------------------ Watch the Video guide as the playstyle is extremely complicated to explain through text. ----------------------------- ANIMATED GUARDIAN ----------------------------- I'll be honest, I hate this ability, Pseudo Hardcore mechnics being forced upon us is garbage. That being said its insanely powerful. You turn pieces of gear into a powerful Guardian that gives you the benefits of a team member wearing those pieces. But if it dies you lose all the gear... It doesn't die to much if you gear it properly but you have been warned. To make this work on this build you HAVE to use the Ring and you HAVE to make it eat a Level 3 Empower and the Other Gems. You will also need to take the nodes on the tree including Grave Intentions. Suggested Gear Body Armour - Garb of the Ephemeral - Prevents Enemies Critting and prevents Action Speed going below Base (Get a 3% of Life Gained as ES Implicit one) Weapons - Kingmaker - Provides Rarity, Culling Strike, Crit Strike Multi, and 10 Stacks of Fortify to Nearby Allies Helmet - Mask of the Stitched Demon - Recovers life % based on the total amount of Energy Shield Gloves - Southbound - Huge Life % - Rare Gloves with Life, Chaos Resist and Elemental Resist Boots - Rare Boots with Sapped Ground Implicit and Life / Chaos / Elemental Resists. -------------------------------------------------- CRAFTING AND OBTAINING THE GEAR -------------------------------------------------- Weapons / Offhands - Budget Buy a Cheap +1 Wand with 1.5 APS from the Trade Website with solid stats (cast speed, crit, cold damage to spells, cold damage) This is definitely not worth trying to craft, but if you want to I would focus on Fossils, mainly ones that give you Elemental / Cold Results. - Expensive Buy a Fractured +1 Cold wand with 1.5 APS from the Trade Website Use the 4 Fossil Combination Corroded + Jagged + Metallic + Shuddering to Obtain +1 To all Spell Gems Keep going until you get one with a solid 3rd Prefix (Cold Damage, Spell Damage, Etc) Craft Suffixes cannot be changed and use a Harvest Crit Reroll on the item. Ideally you want to get either High Tier Crit Multi or High Tier Spell Crit, if you don't get those, repeat. You can Stop Here if you want to save your Sanity, if you do stop craft Cast Speed and be done. Augment Crit Hoping for the other mod that you did not get, if you get a bad crit mod either stop or craft Prefixes cannot be changed and reroll Crit again. Once you obtain the other good mod craft Cast Speed and be done. - Life Gain on Block Shield Ideally you will want to buy an Energy Shield Base with +% Max Fire res and % Life gained on Block, but these are going to be insanely rare you technically don't need the maximum fire resistance but it is very nice. Alternatively if you can't obtain that you can go for a Life Block and ES Block shield which you can either buy a shaper base or Awakener Orb together Warlord Life% Block with a Shaper ES% Block. Ideally you will want to get both of these Modifiers together with no other suffix. If you have a 3rd suffix you will either need to give up on spell crit or go for the Anull. With a 3rd open suffix craft Suffixes cannot be changed and Harvest Crit reroll for Spell Crit Chance. At this point you can stop, craft life and be happy with your decisions or you can make the mistake of trying to get +1 Cold. Craft Suffixes cannot be changed and harvest reforge Cold until you land +1 cold, it is very unlikely. Repeat if you do not land it, if prefixes fill you can roll harvest keep suffixes reroll prefix. Craft Life and be done with the Shield. The Chestpiece Obtain 85+ ilvl Sacrificial Garb. Alteration Roll until you obtain a very high life roll Augment for a Suffix, Regal for a Suffix, if you dont get a suffix from the regal, restart. Craft a 3rd suffix and use a Hunter's Exalted Orb, you have roughly a 1/3 chance to hit %life. If you don't hit it youll need to use Pristine Fossils until you get Life + %Life and an open Prefix. Craft Multimod, Life Gained as ES, Prefixes cannot be changed and then do a Caster Reroll for Spell Crit. You can Multimod again to gain an additional Suffix Craft or attempt an Exalt slam. The Helmet 1. Obtain an ilvl 83 Blizzard Crown from Ritual 2. Find the cheapest Augment Influence orb and apply it to the Helmet. 3. Use Harvest Change Influence to obtain Shaper Influence (Alternatively just buy the base) You can use Perfect Fossils to get 30% quality and and give it to a Lab Runner to obtain your enchant of choice (Ice Nova Damage is Good) 4. Use Glyphic + Frigid + Prismatic fossils until you land the combo of Essence of Horror / Hysteria Mod + Hypothermia 4.5 If you have a 3rd suffix you will need to Annul it off, if you annul either of the good Suffixes off Restart at step 4. 5. Craft Suffixes cannot be changed and Harvest Crit Reforge You will get either 1,2, or 3 % Spell Crit, if you get 2% or higher I would definitely keep it, if you get 1% and want higher, restart from step 4. From this point you can choose to either go the potentially very expensive route or the less expensive route - Less Expensive 6. Craft Suffixes cannot be Changed and use a Veiled Chaos Orb. 7. Craft +1 Zombie/Skeleton and Un-veil, you are looking for +2 Aoe Gems, if you do not get it restart from step 6. If your Prefixes are full use harvest keep suffixes reroll prefixes. 8. Craft Life. - More Expensive 6. Craft Suffixes cannot be Changed and use a Harvest Reforge Cold, you are looking for T2 or T1 Added Cold Damage. 7. Craft Suffixes cannot be changed and Aisling Slam (You have a 50/50 to hit the Suffixes cannot be changed or the Cold Damage, if you have an additional Prefix that rolled because of the Cold Reforge youll need to hit that one if you want to have Life on the Final Helm.) You are looking for +2 to AoE, if you fail go back to step 6. 8. Craft Life. Boots I suggest watching this video explaining how to make the boots -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNBjgqPcYhQ ------------------------ FINAL THOUGHTS ------------------------ A build I was not expecting to actually go so in depth on but here we are. If you have suggestions or just want to hangout with the community make sure to join my discord linked here -> https://discord.gg/aDtqeDC Thanks for taking the time to read through all of this! If you enjoy the build make sure to let your friends know about my YouTube Channel / Twitch Stream and have them join the discord server! Thanks, have fun and stay safe out there in Wraeclast, and I'll see you all next time!! --- ---