PoE 3.12 Heist, 3.20 Sanctum League Starter, Cold builds

Hey all, Archmage has been stomped into the ground by GGG for a long time now, so here's a new twist/variant to it that I'm considering league-starting. Abyss Jewel Stacking Trinity Archmage. This is heavily based off of Jungroans Raider variant however with the nerfs to arcane surge it feels like you're almost obligated to take hierophant. What this build does differently from previous versions of archmage: Chill effect, frostbolt and ice nova with high cold damage scaling gives a strong defensive layer previously not had Recoup: with new recoup nodes added to the tree, it lets us ge

After discovering and falling in love with CWDT-scions last league, and seeing the incoming nerfs, I decided to league start a CWDT build to see how far i'd get. Eventhough ward/jewels have been changed, I managed to get it started, with 4 flasks, for about 600c in the first week (those base jewels with flask charges are amazing!). Fast forward a bit to where I got all the challenges I wanted to get this league and having banked a few 100D, I started looking at whacky things to do with this build and started going down the MF route. This post is both a showcase of possibilities with CWDT, a

EO on chest bcs I have it on relic. :)

This is quite literally the league I've been asking for a while. A strike skills league. Who cares if melee gets rekt in Sanctums? All strikes got Melee Splash on the passive tree. That being said I've decided to do a brief write up on a league starter that has served me pretty well since day 1. So why Glacial Hammer? Because Heatshiver exists. This one unique provides 130% more damage (cold gained as fire) and allows for trinity use only when one condition is met. That the enemy being attacked is frozen. We can achieve 100% easily from passives on the skill tree, hypot

Hey guys, I just wanted to make sure with experts that I understood everything correctly : I'm playing Frost Blades Trickster in SSF (leaguestarted it... it went how you can guess). However I got to farming T16, still getting slapped by Essences because for some reasons i have 159 armor etc but that not what this post is about. As a fellow SSF enjoyer I spend quite a bit of time in Heist, and I got as usual \[\[The Admiral\]\] At first I thought "yeah... seems cool but wont use it" but then I thought about elemental equilibrium (that I can take right away, i'm pathing in front of it anyway