[PoE 3.23] Nuclear Ice Nova and Herald of Ice (500% increased AoE)
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by Charles Versallius2 years ago49Subscribe
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11.96M
DPS
23.08K
Effective HP
3.68K
Life
681
Energy Shield
Overview
[PoE 3.23] Nuclear Ice Nova and Herald of Ice (500% increased AoE) is a Path of Exile Elementalist build by Charles Versallius, made for the Affliction league (3.23). It is centered on Ice Nova and plays as a intelligence, spell, area, cold archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 11.96M DPS with 23.08K effective HP, 3.68K life, 681 energy shield. Suited for: Legion. Key uniques include The Annihilating Light, Mageblood, Progenesis, Ashes of the Stars, Maloney's Mechanism.
Build Video
Charles Versallius's Notes
I was inspired by some nasty pops from Crucible league (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVKVgwqpdks, watch that if you haven't, it's really fun) so I wanted to try popping an entire legion with Herald of Ice. New Ice Nova and Herald of Ice have base radius scaling from quality so with Ashes and an absurd amount of area of effect modifiers from charms we reach 95 radius on Ice Nova and 43 radius on Herald of Ice which is pretty terrifying.
For damage we have Annihilating Light obviously since HoI's pops are not spell damage so it's quite difficult to scale dps otherwise. Lots of base crit chance to proliferate via freezes. Not sure this is optimised, but it's pretty fun to play. Feelsbad to lose instant Vortex ngl, I think Ice Nova is so clunky to play despite the screenwide radius.
And yes I know I have niko buffs, I'm collecting sulphite for my attempts at deep delving and I like the speed it provides. No judgerino.
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Skills
Passive Tree



Character Stats
Defence
- Effective Hit Pool
- 23.08K
- Life
- 3.68K
- Energy Shield
- 681
- Mana
- 167
- Phys Max Hit Taken
- 5.62K
- Armour
- 275
- Evasion
- 1.99K
- Block | Spell Block
- 0% | 0%
- Ward
- 0
Resistances
- Fire Resistance
- 75%
- Cold Resistance
- 75%
- Lightning Resistance
- 75%
- Chaos Resistance
- 75%
Offence
- Total DPS
- 11.96M
- Crit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Multiplier
- 493%
Attributes & Utility
- Strength
- 167
- Intelligence
- 375
- Dexterity
- 155
- Movement Speed
- 190%