Use Brand Recall to force the secondary debuff from Wintertide Brand to activate faster. Cold Snap for single target. Swap to Devoto's Devotion for more movespeed (also lets you drop the dex node). Can also swap Malevolence for Haste. Sadly can't really use Petrified Blood, on paper it's more ehp than Discipline but Vaal Discipline is more useful imo. Leave out LL if you want to be tankier. I left out Defiance Banner for now because of reservation issues. Get the remaining few k evasion from ring or amulet prefix or higher rolls on flask and gear or something, Utmost Intellect is also very use
My Wintertide Brand Trickster leaguestarter (cold dot Trickster)
8449.88K
DPS
22.2K
EHP
3.16K
ES
~1.8![]()
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Cold Dot Hiero Feels Strong on Leaguestart
36524.67K
DPS
51.87K
EHP
3.62K
ES
~1.3![]()
Min Budget

POE 3.23: Wintertide Brand Build Two Ways (Low Life vs CI)
302.6M
DPS
11.01K
EHP
7.3K
ES
~8.2![]()
Min Budget

Wintertide Brand in 3.23, Cold DoT is back
503.8M
DPS
429.08K
EHP
7.28K
ES
~7.8![]()
Min Budget
Hi. This char started from me seeing new brands (armagedon brand of volatility + peneance brand of conduction) and thinking that you can do something funny with them. Big thing is very short and lack of duration that can be abused with brand mastery for big mana regen.Big mana regen is very useful for every arcane build. Kitavas thirst with 2 new brands + wintertide + swiftbrand support gave me enough sustain for MoM + Agnostic on t16 with otherwise trashy build. Char is a proof of the concept and prolly life version is not the way, but conept is proofed and i think its funny. Prolly

Quest Boss - Black Star/Infinite Hunger - Wintertide Brand Occultist - Path of Exile 3.23 Affliction
159.25K
DPS
23.68K
EHP
3.26K
ES
~2.7![]()
Min Budget