Path of Exile

20% reduced reservation enough to offset Alpha's Howl? Not that I've ever played support, just curious.

Anyone have a good Mjolner CwC build? I gave up trying to get it to work with CoC.

Penance said:

Gonna try and make my own build to start out on this league. Probably a bad idea, but I want to try it out. I want to do CoC since I've never tried it, with Cyclone which I've also never tried. I'm thinking discharge and some of the new frost spells with Cospri's Malice and Trickster. Can this work?

Also was gonna try something with mana reservation, zealots oath and MOM. But that seems tricky and probably over my head. Also might just be a bad idea. Any suggestions? My main questions are how much charge generation do I need for discharge? Would other skills such as pure cold be a better option? If I go pure cold damage I might do Jugg or Raider.

Also how does Cospiris and/or CoC work with channeled spells like frozen orb?

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Cospri's Malice and Trickster CAN work, but it's generally better to go with Assassin. Discharge has a few required uniques along with some strongly suggested uniques. I would make sure you like the playstyle first before you fully commit to it as the required uniques can make you squishy.

Outside of Discharge, typical setups I've seen are a clearing skill in Cospri's and single target(Glacial Cascade) in your CoC links.

No idea about channeled skills like Winter's Orb. My guess is that it's technically a totem, like Mirage Archer, and any crits it lands won't count? For instance, Mirage Archer linked to Onslaught Support will never proc Onslaught. But then again, Mirage Archer is a support and Winter's Orb is an active skill, so who knows? Almost certainly though, I doubt it will attack fast enough for you to be satisfied with its proc performance in single target.



Unrelated musing: is Inpulsa's overrated? I know it feels awesome to chain blowup 2 screens of monsters, but is that effectively that much better than blowing up a pack? Depending on the map, there's a decent chance that blowing up that many monsters is "overkill". As in, you're going to have to travel through their corpses anyway, thus very little time saved.

5 totems > 7 totems * 0.6 - other_support

James said:

Yeah but summoning two totems at once is a massive upside, maybe even enough to overcome the numerical inferiority. I'd have to play around with it to be sure.

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Yes, it's more utility than it is dps. Let me edit my math, since the support part and gem level was wrong.

X > (X + 2) * 0.8 / (1 + Y)

X being the original totem count and Y being the average more% from the 6th link. Assuming Y = 0.35, the equation balances at X > 2.909.