PoE Occultist, Cold builds

So discharge will receive a large damage buff, but will be on a cooldown. I'm thinking about ways to make self-casting Discharge work, and i've come up with some archetypes, although none of them feel 100% satisfying. First i thought of an Archmage build to make use of the fact that Discharge now is on a cooldown anyways, so handling the mana cost would be a lot easier. Here is my pastebin for an Occultist Archmage build: The Problem with Occultist Archmage is the fact that while Forbidden Power does reliably generate charges with Archmage, it only generates

I've been trying to narrow down my league starter for Heist the past couple of days. Somewhere along the line, I decided I want to do a cold DoT Occultist, more specifically a Wintertide Brand Occultist (SC-trade). I have a few reasons (that may or may not be valid, politely let me know). Full reasoning summaries below, but TLDR: I think cold DoT Occultists will survive nerfing and might even be buffed by new Hexes. Wintertide brand also feels safe from nerfing, is non-meta, and there is always Vortex to fall back on. I may or may not be able to take advantage of new Hexes more easily. Al

Hello folks, ^(umm) lets get started i guess. i have a lot of experience in PoE, played way more hours than i'm afraid to know. Completed every milestone i set for myself, and after all this time, there is a time for a level 100 and that time is now. That means having a build that can clear very fast, and be very tanky. I usually theory craft builds myself generally "stealing" some pointers from other builds and making the build as i see fit which works out very well. ^(most of the time.) So in a nutshell i designed a build that wont die, and will clear very well so i can get that sweet 100