COC ew help

https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/neenjafus-1665/character/Vanikilla

That’s my character. I started the league a bit late and don’t have interest in leaching temples so I don’t have a ton of currency available but it does come in pretty quickly so I’m curious where I should focus next.

I did just realize I’m missing 5% resist all from campaign so I’ll get that as soon as I’m home, I’m sure that’ll help balance things.

As is, I can use either arctic armor and siphon elements or blink. I tried blink and it did feel nice but also got me in sticky situations, leading to deaths, so I think I’ll be better off without it.

I want to keep my dps up (or increase it) but mostly I want to add survivability as dying in maps can be really frustrating.

I made both the rings myself. I know they aren’t great but I’m not sure how to upgrade them, and if it’s worth it. I’m also not sure if it’s worth ditching the spirit on the chest to go for higher es.

My crit rate is about 84% right now and I’m not sure how to get it higher.

Where would you go from here and what would you focus on next to continue optimizing?

Also, how would you change the tree to make it better/more efficient?

Thanks!!

Comments

zavorak_eth•4 months ago•1

Arctic armour saved me from dying more than once, so I highly recommend it. You can get more crit chance from jewels. Get sapphires with dual crit chance on them. You could also get a wand with crit chance instead of crit bonus. I highly recommend you check out iamjustanthony on mobalytics as he has several bm coc builds on there. I've used two of his and haven't been disappointed yet.

Potential_Remote_320•4 months ago•1

First I would remove spell cascade from CoC, usually more for packs but you already going for Elemental Weakness so no need for area damage there. If you are proc ing your CoC fine go for Cold Mastery, if not energy retention on that slot.

If your main problem is survivability you can do some tweaks that can help you a ton:

I would go with some Sirenscale gloves with better ES and (once you get enough currency) 60% Effect on socketed gems with and socket the Gem for 40% life efficiency cost ( forgot the name). Get decent Sekhemas boots or any full ES boots since you’re wasting prefixes on Armour where you don’t use any.

Also I would add to your elemental weakness Vilentas Propultsion.

Add me tmrw I think I have some decent rings and maybe gloves I can give ya :)

oldglassofmilk•4 months ago•1

Get that +4 vertex, and I would rather have high % spell damage on a wand instead of 2 gain as, you already have tons of gain as sources with the scepter and archmage, all of which will be boosted by spell damage further

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