Disciple of Varashta - Ice Nova CoC Comet

What up Exiles,

Here's the character:

Open in PoB to see the jewels and weapon set points.

I am basically using the offense I saw from the Stormweaver reverse chill build (can't really do the reverse chill with this build, would be giving up too many good stats), and tried to pair it with the defense I saw from another Disciple of Varashta player... I feel like the only thing this character lacks is mobility, which I could try to work in Blink for, but would need a way to get that extra spirit, maybe on an Abyssal Ring or Against the Darkness (too expensive for me rn).

I also regeared into rarity, now over 100%.

I know the weapon can be better, giving me like an extra ~25% more damage with decent stats (I have T3 Spell dmg, and max mana instead of extra ele). But even with something suboptimal, I find I can clear most of everything pretty easily.

Mana Remnants was the latest addition since I have spirit reservation on the chest, and it fixed all my mana issues (I am always topped off). This also opens up the potential of divesting out of some mana points on the tree into something else.

I also tried running double curse on blasphemy (elemental weakness, etc.), but felt like I was freeing up a skill slot and changing the tree for not much upside... Taking the curse and area of effect stuff on the second weapon set swap felt stronger.

I'm at the spot with this character that I'd like to optimize... I think I'd like more area of effect, more damage on the tree, more mobility etc.

Any feedback/discussion welcome!

Comments

ExcellentPastries•5 months ago•1

Rakiata’s and Ele Weakness seems unwise??

MrSchmellow•5 months ago•1

Would love to see how it plays. I feel like generally ice nova builds are somewhat obscure - i see a lot of them on ninja every league, but very little exposure otherwise: no guides, no discussions, and all the videos i saw are non-astral projection super clunky 3 button combos per pack (frost bomb + eye winter stuff).

Looking for a potential 0.5 startable non-spark caster that has "free" ring slots for negative rarity (so for example frostbolt does not qualify, due to snakepit dependency)

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4 months ago

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Rakiata who?

I made an elemental crossbow varashta sorc this season as my starting build (goal was to exploit yoke of suffering's full potential, you can find poe ninja below, don't be fooled by the dmg tooltip, it kill ubers before they can move) and so since I was in the intel side of the tree I used my weapon swap to maximize exposure (with whispering ice) and curse magnitude. Here with some non-optimized gear I'm reaching a total of -338% res (that's -169% on bosses), meaning it's better than rakiata's. I use cursed ground support to apply the curse and icestorm (which comes with the staff) with prolonged duration and potent exposure to make the exposure last longer. This tech doesn't require much investment apart from your weapon swap and a few sockets at most so it can be plugged into many elemental builds. As it is now, it requires you to cast the spells with your weapon swap, so I use it mostly for bosses, but i might cast icestorm on bulky rares in juiced maps once in a while. If you have a skill dedicated for mapping, it'll propably better to use rakiata on it, and remove it or use another skill for bosses. Here's the poeninja: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala](https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/McZaatar-0907/character/Dendjala) I might make a build showcase if people are interested, it's a fun league starter build. With yoke and the electrocution node on the tree, enemies have 120% damage taken, more if they're cursed, on top of the giant res drop, plus you benefit from a lot of the "damage against enemies with ailments nodes" so that's why the tooltip is low (explosive grenades indicate 60k in game but they hit bosses for like 2M) at first I was playing with permafrost bolt with frost nexus + navira's fracture + fragmentation rounds, it was a fun combo and really strong for leveling but I couldn't scale navira's fracture damage in late game (I had command + minion nodes on my second weapon instead of the curse/exposure at the time) Hope this inspires some of you!

4 months ago

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“That’s no moon”

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