POE1 3.26 Ice Nova Occultist Day 3-4 Update

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Good uses of reservation in order of importance, at least to me:

• Zealotry. Most important damage aura
• Determination. Most important defensive aura
• Clarity. Don't need this if you're using the lightning golem and can keep it alive
• Tempest shield. You can use this for shock immunity, or drop it and take the charge mastery for shock immunity. The spell block is nice to have
• Herald of Ice. More damage and explosions
• Discipline. More ES. Nice to have, but not a game changer by any means at this point
• Flesh and Stone. Your AOE on this is going to be massive, so stone stance will be quite good.
• Arctic Armour. You're already freeze immune. But if you do a lot of content where you stand still, this + frost shield is huge. Highly recommend max spell block and the pantheon as well if you're standing still

If you're struggling, here are upgrades you should look for in order of greatest impact:

• A good wand. These are cheap this league. You don't need a crazy GG wand, just something to hold you over until you get the tulfall setup
• enough resistance and attributes on passive tree/other gear to use a curse on hit ring with either frostbite or temp chains socketed into it. Or find another source of curse on hit
• Replica dragonfang for ice nova
• 4th lab for profane bloom. This will carry you in most every entry level late game farm
• armour/es gloves, boots, helm, and chest piece. Make sure the chest piece has really high armour and ES for the mastery that doubles it. This will help your tankiness more than any thing else you can do. Crafting a high armour/es chest yourself is quite simple as well. Just buy a 6 link sacred chainmail, some small resonators, and some dense fossils. Put the fossils in the resonators. And then use those on the 6 link until you get high armour/ES. 20% quality it if it needs it. Sacred orb it if it needs it to get the base armour/es higher.
• If you need to fix the suffixes on it, then use an eldritch ichor, the blue ones, and then eldritch chaos, or eldritch annul/exalt until you get decent suffixes. This will be much much cheaper than buying a crafted one yourself in almost every scenario
• cold exposure and unnerve on gloves
• phys taken as chaos on the chest

00:00 Intro 00:25 Upgrades 04:13 Changes 05:43 Mana Reservation Setups 08:02 Future upgrades 09:38 If you're struggling