PoE Witch, Cyclone builds without Mageblood

the idea here is to have a full army of animated minions, getting layers of % of phys damage as extra cold, and then converting the phys damage of minions into cold in order to abuse hatred's more cold damage buff. Dps seems fine enought, but the problem seems to be gathering the animated weapon army on boss fights, as you need to raise lingering blades first, so that they raise animated guardian's weapon on hit. Also, you don't have the full dps on bosses, as some of the animated weapons count come from the "on death" ani

Hello. I want to share with you my Frostblink Occultist build. I wanted to create it since Blight league, but Badge of the Brotherhood always was very expensive for me. Now its under 3ex so i decided to try. This build has only \~5k HP, but combined with 72/44 block with Glancing Blows, Malediction, Frigid Wake, permanent freezing and always moving i dont feel this build completely squishy. I would say it has 6/10 survivability. Obviously, sometimes i getting oneshots, mostly in Ultimatms, but in this league all dying there. Damage in PoB about 2.5m per hit Frostblink and 0.5m Creeping Fros

Following up on this sucker with some cleaned up build and some modifications thanks to fellow builders. Part 1 here : Updates: Swapped build to necro to clean up the build. 4 points left over to move into a cluster or reservation nodes. Guardian might be better for this to be honest to scale Envy aura. A

Config: Intimidate and negative resists is from Belt of the deciever+Eye of Malice (Animate guardian) Playing around with the resist-shredding capabilities of elementalist. Any thought? Anyone tried this? Is just Occulist better? Edit: My gripes with this concept are elemental ailments and the loss of something like The Stampede. But I consider doing this in softcore to switch things up abit.

About \~20ex give feedback! I don't know how to calculate full DPS.