Possibly the funnest build I've ever played: Selfcast Ice Spear/Arc Archmage Ascendant
by derivative_of_life5 years ago35
- DPS
- 3M
- Life
- 5.22K
- Level
- 93
- Min budget
Overview
Possibly the funnest build I've ever played: Selfcast Ice Spear/Arc Archmage Ascendant is a Path of Exile Ascendant build by derivative_of_life, made for the Heist league (3.12). It is centered on Ice Spear and plays as a critical, intelligence, spell, projectile archetype. In Path of Building it reaches 3M DPS with 5.22K life. Key uniques include Dying Sun, Cloak of Defiance, Essence Worm.
derivative_of_life's Notes
This is not the strongest build I've ever played, although it's honestly pretty decent for a total hipster build. If you're looking for a build that never dies and can obliterate A8 Sirus in seconds, this is not that. But if you're looking for a build that can do hard content without trivializing it, so that it still feels like an actual challenge, I recommend checking it out.
Basically, this is a selfcast build using Unleash with Arc for clear and Ice Spear for single target. 10k ehp, Arc will blow up the entire screen and then some in one cast as long as you crit, and Ice Spear does about 6.5M damage per cast under ideal circumstances. Ice Spear can definitely be a little tricky to aim, but I find that it's super satisfying when you land a direct hit and see a significant chunk of a boss's life vanish. I've probably got about 30ex worth of gear at this point, quite a bit of it found or crafted myself, but you can get it running for <10ex.
Gear
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Skills
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Passive Tree


- Bandits
- Help Alira
Character Stats
- Level
- 93
Damage
- Combined DPS
- 3M
- Hit DPS
- 3M
- With Poison DPS
- 3M
- With Ignite DPS
- 3M
- With Bleed DPS
- 3M
- Damage over Time
- 0
- Average Hit
- 164.39K
- Average Damage
- 164.39K
Attack & Crit
- Attack/Cast Rate
- 2.03/s
- Hit Chance
- 100%
- Crit Chance
- 98%
- Crit Multiplier
- 438%
- Totem Limit
- 2
- Mana Cost
- 1.61K
Defence
- Life
- 5.22K
- Energy Shield
- 0
- Mana
- 5.12K
- Armour
- 125
- Evasion
- 2.13K
- Phys Damage Reduction
- 1%
Mitigation & Avoidance
- Block
- 0%
- Spell Block
- 0%
- Evade (Melee)
- 10%
- Evade (Projectile)
- 10%
- Attack Dodge
- 0%
- Spell Dodge
- 0%
Resistances
- Fire Resistance
- 75% (+50%)
- Cold Resistance
- 75% (+20%)
- Lightning Resistance
- 75% (+4%)
- Chaos Resistance
- -10%
Recovery
- Life Regen
- 1.12K/s
- ES Regen
- 0/s
- Mana Regen
- -365.8/s
- Life Leech
- 0/s
- ES Leech
- 0/s
- Mana Leech
- 0/s
Attributes & Utility
- Strength
- 265
- Intelligence
- 419
- Dexterity
- 119
- Movement Speed
- 22%
- Endurance Charges
- 3
- Frenzy Charges
- 3
- Power Charges
- 3
- Devotion
- 0