Vaal Cold Snap Architect of Chaos Build

**************************** Pros / Cons of Build ************************************ Pros: Gets quite tanky due to life scaling + max res from ascendancy (and eventually can be build for suppress with really good gear, check dans pob for example) Smooth Playstyle(low button use, with pseudo cold rf feel) -> vaal cold snap you use roughly every 8 seconds Can get feels good fast without mageblood -> perma onslaught/adrenaline possible Cons: Dot Builds have limited scaling for DPS, late game damage will fall off on very high end farms -> delirious + really bad tank mods Late game wants corrupted items which can get very expensive with rare pieces. Can't really play the build well until cruel lab / vaal corrupted cold snap (early game should be very smooth with abberaths but it requires a mid leveling swap) **************************** Vaal Cold Snap Concept *********************************** Shepherd of Souls -> 80% less cost of vaal skills / 100% increased cost of souls for 8 Seconds ~ if our vaal cold snap lasts longer than 8 seconds, we never incur the downside and thus this gives us 5x the amount of vaal casts 50% reduced soul costs ascendancy node + 50% vaal skill duration, this makes our 5x casts go to 8 (would be 10 but the game rounds up 3.5 soul cost to 4) Small nodes give 10% additional vaal soul so 40% chance to grant additional souls on monster kill Playstyle -> start map -> kill 25 total monsters -> get capped 35 vaal souls Proceed to chain 8 vaal cold snaps back to back for 60+ seconds -> kill 25 monsters go again OR use soul ripper to go instantly back to full. There will be a 3-4 second downtime for soul gain prevention at the end of each 8 vaal cold snap chains, this will result in roughly 4 second down time for every 65ish seconds of gameplay 7.5% of the time roughly. ************************** Build Progression *********************************** Recommended: Level as magma orb -> firestorm classic fire caster leveling (combustion / eleprolife / cruelty / flammability / wave of conviction / tempest shield + arctic armour) At normal Lab you have two options: Tryhard/speedge -> Spec lvl 20 abberaths hoooves (I can't see a world where this isn't busted damage at low level) Cold snap right away -> Click shepherd of souls node and start playing vaal cold snap right away paired with wintertide/creeping frost, this is going to be on the weaker side of leveling but itll be viable(change tree accordingly) ~Proceed to level to around lvl 60 / cruel lab at which point I believe you can swap(technically if leveling is going well you can stall till merc lab too) to vaal cold snap with very consistent uptime with the combination of Duration node & shepher of souls ~From 60 onwards each level buy heist demolition('?' sidechests give chaos) & lockpicking(currency side chests) contracts from the vendor, each level this vendor resets. Use this currency to buy some early recommended upgrades ( rares / vaal gloves / kaoms / rime gaze) ~Complete Campaign enter maps and progress/currency farm based on your own preferences upgrading basic rares ect. until around level 90+ where I would recommend saving up currency for a rathpith tree swap with regen tattoos. Do NOT swap until you have rathpith, that tree doesn't work without that shield. ~With life gearing setup this should be able to run t17s/ubers with some difficulty/depending on mods and you can farm currency for putting together a setup like uber dans. ********************** Buylist ************************ Buylist uses better trading extension supported on chrome/brave browser Highlight over, copy, then past in import section 3: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 **********************************************************