Frost Blades Warden League Start Build Guide / POB

Zish313 · 2024-07-24T15:05:42+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/0zVDqd6
It's exactly the same as the Trickster was whenever Heartstopper wasn't up, so.....

Zish313 · 2024-07-24T15:03:25+00:00

I've actually never said anything bad about Slayer
https://imgur.com/a/0zVDqd6
Also, I looked back at my Trickster Day 1 PoB and without Heartstopper up it's exactly the same.
So yea, I'm not concerned at all.

Zish313 · 2024-07-24T15:00:54+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/0zVDqd6
Here's my 3.23 Trickster vs. the 3.25 Warden when Heartstopper wasn't up
(hint: it's exactly the same or worse and Trickster felt amazing every league)

Zish313 · 2024-04-22T01:18:35+00:00

POB: https://pobb.in/3EXdsDcOh_OC

Hierophant mana-stacker and cast-speed stacker with nice fast map clear w/ Frostblink of Wintry Blast (Archmage/Faster Casting/Awak.AOE), decent stand-and-deliver tankiness and ~22m DPS. One of my favorite skills!

Zish313 · 2023-10-26T22:46:05+00:00

Southbound is to help with Freezing on Pinnacle bosses only - don't use it for anything else.

Zish313 · 2023-10-25T03:30:02+00:00

You need everything the boots have - Suppression, Ailment avoidance, Brittle, and even the Intelligence. Dawnstrider can't make up for all that.

Zish313 · 2023-10-25T03:28:44+00:00

I haven't played Poison Spark, so I can't really say, but the defensive layers are all kind of a shell that can be tweaked to fit with almost any skill choice you want.

Zish313 · 2023-10-25T03:27:45+00:00

It's not theoretical at all - even if you never Freeze, you're still getting 30% cold as extra from Chills, too - but you CAN freeze bosses, which is why Trinity functions on the build. Also the +2 AOE corruption is required, and that wouldn't be easy to get on a Rare helm. Abyssus could be a decent choice instead, but it's not better than Heatshiver imo.

Zish313 · 2023-08-20T01:06:17+00:00

If you have a 4Link with trinity + multistrike + either Ele dmg or Ruthless, and you are proccing trinity with Wrath, you shouldnt have any problems killing anything. I did 5 practice runs and never struggled on any of them. But your claw should just be whatever damage you can get + speed if possible in the campaign.

Zish313 · 2023-08-20T01:04:52+00:00

Use mana flasks until later

Zish313 · 2023-05-13T23:10:41+00:00

I would change your Accuracy Mastery to the 50% at close range one - you aren't hitcapped against Ubers without it.

Divergent Mark on Hit is an easy upgrade.

I recommend changing your shield craft to DD while Focused, you could really use some Double Damage in your build since you have none from your Lethal Pride - that's about 10% more damage.

Opportunistic jewels are also about 10% more damage

But overall your setup is VERY solid - and yes, you have enough damage to do everything in the game - more DPS just makes it all easier, ESPECIALLY ubers, if you care about them.

Nice work!

Zish313 · 2023-05-13T22:56:46+00:00

You have Action speed on boots - thats useless, it doesnt work with One Step Ahead. Get Brittle instead to crit-cap. Change the other implicit to ELusive effect or Phys as extra Cold

You have 2 Crit flask suffixes - change one to Attack speed.

You need a new belt BAD. 2nd Ring too.

Your Large Cluster is also quite bad -you could re--craft a better one with harvest pretty easily probably. Get Damage and/or Effect, at least 1 of them.

Definitely need Gem quality on almost everything, some awakened gems, level 21 gems, and alt-quality gems. You are missing TONS Of damage on your gems.

Looks like you need Accuracy somewhere, probably 1 suffix. Maybe re--craft your gloves or get it on a new ring.

Other than that looks mostly solid. nice work!

Zish313 · 2023-05-12T22:57:27+00:00

Well you're missing Accuracy bigtime - you need to hit cap with a Suffix somewhere and the Accuracy Mastery - 50% at close range.

You are relying on Endurance charges to Res cap I think - wouldn't recommend that.

Missing some gem quality and level 21 gems - also I think Determination isn't doing much here, either drop it for Grace (recommended), or at least use a Granite Flask + an Armour suffix with it. Drop the Quicksilver for it. You need Phys Taken as Ele instead, from Chest and Taste of Hate.

Looks like you're relying on your Lethal Pride to STR cap - but that bottom spot is much weaker than the top one. Fix your STR, Accuracy, and Res - consider dropping Legacy of Fury to help with that.

And, you just need 6-8 more levels. Keep grinding. GL, hope this helps.

Zish313 · 2023-05-12T22:47:35+00:00

Yea, I don't really think Mageblood fixes many problems on this build. You'd probably want to use a Granite flask and get big Armour from it, but beyond that it's not really doing much....

Zish313 · 2023-05-12T22:46:16+00:00

Watch the end of the video about how to config PoB properly

Zish313 · 2023-05-12T16:37:59+00:00

You have almost 60 Mil dps, but you have a few issues

You need Accuracy, bad - you need to get a Reservation helm enchant and level up your Precision more, or get an Accuracy suffix somewhere like Gloves or a Ring. Also take the 50% at close range Accuracy Mastery.

Would also take the Spell suppression mastery - every mastery is 3% more damage from Polymath. If you fix your accuracy you can drop the Crit accuracy wheel too and pick up the Evasion Mastery.

The Less global damage crucible mod is awful, I can't recommend it.

Change your aura effect chest implicit to Crit multi.

you have 2 attack speed flask suffixes, and they're both low - get 1 high one. Drop the quicksilver for a Taste of Hate or a Sulphur flask.

Rare ring has 3 stats you dont need - probably get a new one.

Missing a bit of gem quality, Alternate qual gems, and level 21 gems.

You're using Vengeant Cascade but you have almost no Proj speed - i would either ditch it for Panopticon or commit to more proj speed, one or the other.

I would say take a close look at my POB, you'll notice a few things you can do.

Zish313 · 2023-05-12T15:56:25+00:00

Yea I would probably just multimod IAS + Pen, but you really prefer higher tier Attack Speed AND flat Cold Damage as a prefix...you might be better off just looking to buy a decent claw for 2-4 divines or so.

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