Winter Orb in 2 Minutes - Path of Exile

Winter Orb Build: Budget: 4.7m dps / Default: 11m dps (15.4m with Dying Sun) / Expensive: 20.2m dps (27m with Dying Sun) Strong Herald of Ice explosions 6k+ Hybrid Life and ES Elusive Freeze and Chill immunity +150% movement speed PoB contains three presets being Budget, Default, and Expensive. Make sure Tree, Skills and Gems are using the same preset. Notes: Strongest as a mapper. Can do pinnacle bosses, but you can't face-tank most attacks. Wouldn't recommend attempting Ubers, at least not with this PoB. Most gear in this PoB will have underpar modifiers to keep them reasonably cheap and realistic, this is mostly a budget pob after all, so if you're missing attributes or resistances you can totally find space on gear. Swap Zealotry for Purity of Elements if you need resists and/or full ailment immunity, or Determination if you want some Armour (use Molten Shell and a Granite Flask while you're at it) Frostblink or Hydrosphere + Hextouch + Frostbite + Elemental Weakness is valid curse application option. When checking Default preset, tick "Do you use frenzy charges?" and "Tailwind" under configuration. When checking Expensive preset, tick "Is the enemy Unnerved?" under configuration. Most expensive gem is Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles, coming in at ~20 Divine Orbs. Buy this last. You can help Alira (Bandit) if you'd like some resists, crit multi and flat mana regen. Be sure that Winter Orb costs at least 1 Mana so you can gain Inspiration Charges. Rare Cobalt Jewels should eventually have %Life and multiple +Critical Strike Multiplier modifiers. Life Leech comes from Revitalising Frost (Timeless Jewel Implicit) or Large Cluster Jewel. Energy Shield Leech comes from a small passive Shadow's side of the tree. To gain Frenzy Charges on Hit, you can either craft it on your Chest Piece (best), use a Farrul's Fur (alternative, requires Aspect of the Cat), or Elegant Hubris Timeless Jewel and Impossible Escape (Pain Attunement) to allocate Frenzy Charge on Hit plus any 10% increased Damage per X Charge and %Maximum Life notables. There are still some major upgrades you can get, such as adding elemental damage quality to your rings for more added cold damage, synthesised rings, elevated influence mods, double- or triple-mod Watcher's Eye, Prismatic Heart large cluster jewels which will save two passives each, influenced gloves for Culling and Unnerve, replacing timeless jewel, forbidden jewels for Elementalist's Heart of Destruction, and an actual good belt. I recommend checking Winter Orb builds on PoeNinja for upgrades. Good synthesis implcits you can get on rings, from best to worst: +1 to Maximum Power Charges (~100 Divines). 4 to 7 Added Cold Damage per Frenzy Charge (~5 Divines). Curse enemies with Frostbite on hit (~1 Divine). Curse enemies with Elemental Weakness on hit (~2 Divines). You can use Essence of Horror to craft Added Cold Damage per Frenzy Charge on rings, though this will cost ~14 Chaos per attempt. Goal should be to hit good life and res with an open prefix for reduced mana cost. To get three influence modifiers on the chest piece: 1. Combine spell crit (hunter) and frenzy charge on hit (redeemer) with an awakeners orb. 2. Go to the bench and craft "suffixes cannot be changed". 3. Go to the horticrafting station and reforge with a caster modifier for additional curse.