Cold conversion Blade Vortex Occultist build guide || SSF Sentinel guide

This build does significant single target DPS with an incredible amount of customization available. You can go significantly more tanky or drop tons of defence and gets even more incredible single target DPS. Personally I like a "healthy" balance as I hate dying and it gives me a real idea of how objectively good or bad the build is. For alternate quality BV: -divergent is huge QoL even without duration this makes it easy to maintain blades -anomalous gives us a lot of survivability (third one sucks dont use it) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Who is this build for? This character is a strong and fast mapper as long as a very reliable boss killer. However it does suffer from the same drawback as true melee and that is we have to be almost ontop of the boss to deal damage. Granted with our power charges and occultist mastery we get a lot of free AoE. Not only does this help our BV but our Herald of Ice explosions which is more relevant than you might expect. I strongly recommend this character for a second or third character and not a league starter. If you had hrimburn available however you could in theory do it but I wouldn't recommend it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What do I need before I can start? -Hrimburn - Aegis (or life/es on block shield) -glorious vanity (not 100% required but it gives us the last bit of conversion we need) - +1 weapon or amulet. (having both is ideal but you will be fine with 1) - high dexterity rings and or amulet as that is our main problem to begin with --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gear: All items and mods are listed in priority order from most to least important. (except for gloves for sake of organization) Hrimburn: This gives us a large amount of phys to cold conversion for free and a bit of added cold damage. These are great for a long time (I used them up until lv93 myself on SSF) but please look at the rare gloves option for future upgrades. The rare glove upgrade is a low priority so don't rush it. Rare gloves(low priority just wanted to keep it near other gloves): Ideally you want to drop a pair of phys converted to cold temple gloves (or get a really good craft drop one from betrayal) but the MINIMUM conversion required on the gloves is 25%, then we can get another 25% from the eater of worlds implicit. Keep in mind you need a really high tier to get 25 but 20% will work also. For the other implicit get herald of ice effect How I recommend you craft it: I have been farming alva and betrayal to try and drop the gloves (I took vaal merchant for more drops see atlas tree at the bottom) or get the craft from a random dropped pair. Next step is to use the armour combination thing from sentinel. Rare glove mods (armour/es base): Phys converted to cold (25% MIN), Increased damage against chilled enemies (temple mod optional but tons of dmg), Life, armour, dexterity, resistance - Weapon (mace or wand up to you sambar sceptre bis): % spell damage (80%+) +1 level of physical, +1 level of all spells, % cold damage, flat cold to spells, flat phys to spells Influenced weapon (if you are looking for mega endgame or just a god crafter: spell damage, hatred effect, level of phys, level of all spells, % cold, flat cold to spells - Body armour (armour/es base): Life, resistance, chaos resistance, gain % of life as extra energy shield || Implicits: for damage get hatred and crit multi near unique enemy | Implicits: for defence get spell block and chance to block attacks Boots (armour/es base) : Life, Movement speed, resistance, chaos resistance || Implicits: movement speed (or action speed if you prefer) and % increased armour from helmet/gloves Helmet: Crown of the inward eye, you can use a rare instead if you like but I am not going to list one as I think this is mostly BiS without tons of investment. I recommend since we are farming Alva anyway for our gloves you try and double corrupt a nice one. +1 power charge is DISGUSTINGLY GOOD for us. If you can get an enchant that is even better. Shield: Aegis is BiS Rare shield (armour/es): Life/es on block, life, max resistance, armour, energy shield, resistance - Ring 1: Get yourself a redeemer (ice lady) influenced ring. You do not have to do this (check vortex curse setup option in skills) but I strongly recommend it. It opens up more ways for us to be efficient. Frostbite on hit, cold damage against chilled enemies, life, dexterity, resistance How I recommend you craft it: Get a redeemer ring (I recommend farming for her exalt and using on vermillion or opal) and use harvest crafts with cold or caster modifiers. It took me about 11 tries to get I think rolling caster is better than rolling cold but you should do both just because someone out there has to be lucky right? Ring 2: Circle of fear with herald of ice buff effect and cold damage with herald of ice. Ring 2 rare (Opal ring try and get redeemer again but if not just skip the redeemer mod at the start): cold damage against chilled enemies, life, dexterity, resistance, chaos resistance - Belt (stygian vise hunter base skip hunter mod until you can get it): Gain flask charge on crit, % increased life, life, resistance, chaos resistance Eye jewel: Life, phasing on kill, flat lightning to spells (lets us shock) - Amulet (jade): +1 level of all spells, (skip this until you can afford) +1 level of all phsical, life, cold leeched as life (combine with temple amulet this is for mega endgame), resistance, spell damage, crit multi ---ANNOINT OPTIONS--- - infused does the most damage and gives us the most utility as we are power charge stacking - Throatseeker for a cheaper but high dps option - elemental focus for an even more budget option - Ash frost and storm semi cheap with really good damage - Potency of will HUGE QOL for mapping does nothing for our bossing - Jewels: #1 glorious vanity doryani. You want the dex/str node to turn into Flesh to frost and Automaton studies #2 conquer efficiency for mana reservation Flaks: I am currently farming carcass to get a taste of hate, that flask is absolutely insane for us and I highly recommend it but if not here are some options 1 life flask with corrupting blood removal 1 quicksilver flask with charge on crit, movement speed Granite flask inc armour / charge on crit Atziri promise with use on max charges (or self use if you like) Rumi's concoction for tons of block with use on max charges Taste of hate with used on max charges (or self use if you want better boss dps) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Atlas skill tree: My focus right now is getting gear for alternate characters as well as trying to craft some really insane endgame gear for this character. There are20 points left over for you to pick stuff that you want/need. Also feel free to drop whatever mechanics you dont like and substitute them for your own preferences. This is just how I am choosing to farm for this build and it is more important you do mechanics YOU enjoy. (long link make sure you get it all) https://poeplanner.com/atlas-tree/AwABAHAA3Fz4CcQWgrETfY_l-1PRikVYjjnXK_CA6Wf43_dehrRfPrK6_bXNlpvG1WKINElsM8bOWh-szgAqXk4bLJIrnJfixmb6-NoUKY0DMNXqDkqhjRsIpXPYm_Xeyf1bHgCR5DN9kTZr5chM9ePz5Pyg1i3WSrip7wSSzLdOjfxNBPyN6sJ2qLypQ5879cCi0Mskm2mLc22IZBtM8vuH8VTQ2GyZvdo8WSxI_W1N0cSm0C3EH-jy2E8ZiGFPEIBjD8tyuP_LF3HiZh8qu47YoQM9CjD62VuQ2VR2lIOspCq2aN0=