~100m DPS, 150+ IIR, Double Curse Tanky Gemling Twister Build

Hey all,

I finally changed to crit today, and wanted to showcase my Twister build. Just wanted to preface that Twister is really strong even on a budget.

On a 50D Budget (early/Mid-league prices) I was comfortably doing 200% delirious maps. Probably about 20x the dmg of what I was yesterday as noncrit. As noncrit (no rakiata), each cast of x9 twisters did about 4-5m damage on bosses.

Defences: ~7k ES 40K eva 95% deflect 30% of damage taken by companion Ghost Dance + Wind Dancer Intimidate (10% reduction) Debilitate (10% reduction) Seraph's heart 14x wolves taking enemy aggro with blind + maim + knockback Companion with Blind (Catha's Brilliance) Temp Chains + Enfeeble 57% increased magnitude Crit immunity Curse Immunity Check comments for POB.

Damage: 100% chance to not remove charges + 6 frenzy charges = 9x twister per casts Verglas 151% damage as Cold (This actually runs out to be about a 40% more damage multiplier only, because we already have 200+% extra damage from Heart of the well, sceptre, and 50%x3 from The Taming) 19.6m x 5.4 (from 8 barrage repeats) = 105m dmg per cast (inaccurate due to outdated Rakiata's flow calculation which assumes bosses have 75% resistance. Realistically more like 70+ m per cast).

Misc: 147 IIR

Random Discussion points: Rakiata's is actually quite overrated. Most monsters have no resistances, with pinnacles having ~20+%? Considering Rakiata takes up a gem socket that could easily be another 20-30% multiplier gem, I wouldn't recommend Rakiata's unless you're high-end going crit and points-starved. Use A Topotantes Soul Core (25% Pen), Potent Melancholy on Sapphire Jewel for Elemental Exposure. Optional Frost bomb on COEA/COC also causes -70% resistance (-35% on bosses) thanks to quality stacking. I opted to forgo Charge Regulation just because I was running out of sockets and also because the only thing it really provides for me is 26% skill speed. Needed an Adorned or 2x timeless jewels to hit ~50% crit without Charge regulation's buff. Many people annoint Augmented flesh instead of thaumaturgic/paragon combat frenzy/snipers mark etc, I didn't like the sensation of having to rely on killing monsters for charge generation, but this is completely up to you.

Upgrade Priority in my opinion from start: Atziri's spear+ Darkness Enthroned + 10+% chance to not remove charge boots + Olroth's Conviction + Thaumaturgical dynamism to enable consistent barrage (Just this should be sufficient to do all content) Mageblood (Much better IIR + defences) Trinity Amulet with spirit/quality/defences (It's actually less damage than a yoke of suffering because Twister scales badly with +levels) Timeless Jewel + Garukhan's + Rakiata (I wouldn't go crit without collecting all 3) Adorned