Hello all,

I made a few previous posts on here about cold dot elementalist about how I progressed through my first time with this build. I usually play 1-2 button builds but this was a different start with 6 button build. Honestly, it's quite fun and it spreads click to various buttons versus spamming one button. This has reduced some of my wrist pain.

Old post: https://www.reddit.com/r/PathOfExileBuilds/comments/zs6nzm/final_tipsobservations_for_cold_dot_elementalist/

It was interesting to break the mold for myself but curses are quite meta atm. Funnily enough, I stopped using curses unless its a boss or some weird rare mods stacked together and it doesn't explode. Thus, it became a 2 button build for me now after some investment. I do have steel's flask which makes it even faster in maps. I chose a 130% corrupted 7 mod crimson temple for the showcase. Very lazily playing but just wanted to show what this gameplay looks like. I rarely use cold snap unless it requires me too, but it does give frenzy charges so I should but I enjoy creeping frost and just shield charging with vortex. Cleans up everything nicely until a rare drop ding. I removed arcane surge as previous post mentioned it does not proc, but went from 9M DPS to 12M DPS with some more investment and theory crafting. I will answer any questions I am knowledgeable enough to answer.

I also farmed 7 apoths, 15-17 seven years bad luck, 15-17 the enlightened, 13-15 dragons heart in 170-200 maps solo with my farm strat. Sorry I didn't track exact data. Usually I do winged scarabs with stronger sextants but I just threw random sextants with more mobs and grabbed one of my juiced maps for showcase. I also grabbed whenever it says quantity mod on altars, regardless of what the downside is. Also, I did not apply domination like I would usually as it's the best buffs for 3 chaos. I wanted it to be a truer representation of the build. Just imagine what it would be like with shrine buffs :)

Quick mods on map: enfeeble, ele weakness, extra phys as fire, possessed unique boss damage/att/cast speed, players less 60% recovery of life/energy shield. all buffed up with wandering path and increased effect of modifiers on map through atlas. with 96% less recovery of life/energy shield.

My POB now: https://pastebin.com/zHGrz6ZZ

YT link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzCHqYNdfcI

Got bored and made a skin of the lords version with diadem, can go further with eye of malice. Maybe tomorrow I will try to configure my gear for it, maybe enlighten might help and remove tempest shield? 18M pinnacle DPS atm https://pastebin.com/Dfma4Sj2 , probably ~~23-25m dps~~ with eye of malice similar to ruetoos final cold dot elementalist build. Just tried slotting in eye of malice and relative tree changes needed for EB, I go to 20M pinnacle DPS. Gonna try it out and see which version I like more, I think it's not that trivial of a difference in DPS but EHP drops by roughly 30%. Just tested a little bit, I did not like losing feast of the flesh and shock immunity through tempest shield. For me and my current gear setup, eye of malice does not fit very well.

Please understand I am not trying to market anything other than showcase, sorry I don't know a better recording program other than a quick google search and there is a wetmark. Also, was holiday vibing, excuse the spotify music.