TANKY Build with HIGH CLEARSPEED! - Vaal Cold Snap w/ @CaptainLance9

**************************** Leveling ************************************** Fire caster magma orb into armageddon brand/Firestorm is recommended as from testing cold dot leveling feels quite a bit weaker. We will use our first lab on Polytheist for "abberath hooves" ascendancy first (to be respecced out of at cruel) ~this allows massive damage from walking around, combined with arma brand should be very smooth leveling up to cruel lab Cold Dot can be done from low lvl with wintertide/cold snap but isn't recommended, I leave this up to your own choice but want to be clear about ideal leveling option. To Respec Ascendancy (on killing izaro, you can respec ascendancy (requires 10 respec points) after killing izaro then click altar to swap ascendancy OR respec with gold before hand if you are confident in fire cast spells beating izaro without hooves) ~technically after running cruel lab you can also respec ascendancy with gold and then run a normal lab which should be cleared easilly. **************************** 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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 **********************************************************