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How To Craft A Self-Cast Ice Nova Occultist Build In POE 3.22?

Oct 23, 2023

Today, I’d like to introduce a Self-Cast Ice Nova Occultist build that doesn’t rely on power stacking, doesn’t rely on aura stacking, and lacks unique mechanics. The point of this build is not to implement Ice Nova without fancy gimmicks, but to emphasize the sheer power of self-casting and maintaining multiple auras.

Pros And Cons

Before we get into the pros and cons of this build, let’s first inspect Ice Nova skill itself. Ice Nova is an area effect that, by default, causes the character to rush into the middle of a group of monsters when used.

POE 3.22: How To Craft A Self-Cast Ice Nova Occultist Build?

The most significant drawback of Ice Nova’s abilities can be seen in this play style. Because there’s a risk in rushing into the middle of a group of monsters without ensuring enough damage to cause enough cooldown and freeze. This risk may become even greater with this style of play.

So in this build we took advantage of the unique Astral Projector Topaz Ring. Because players can directly choose where the explosive skill activates, this item can easily offset the biggest drawback of Ice Nova’s skill. The cost of only 8 Chaos Orbs is totally worth choosing this ring.

Similar to Freezing Pulse skill introduced before, once assembled to a certain extent, Ice Nova becomes a skill with significant advantages. Its ability to map quickly and efficiently is unmatched by other skills.

If it can adequately supplement the damage output against a single target. So we can say this skill to be an all-encompassing skill in most of Path of Exile 3.22. Especially if you prefer map-centric gameplay, this cold damage-based build can significantly help stabilize the map.

POE: Ice Nova

Build Mechanism

As mentioned before, this build is indeed a very ordinary self-cast build. It doesn’t rely on power stacking or aura stacking, and it lacks unique mechanics.

Performance-wise, it’s nothing special. Based on Ice Nova’s 20% cold effect, this build can achieve about 13M DPS, and based on Freezing, it can achieve about 18M DPS. EHP is around 30k.

In this build, we used at least 7 Power Charges and 3 Frenzy Charges. Note that you can further increase the minimum Power Charges via Jewel Suffix option and the 12 o’clock position on the passive tree. Accumulated Power Charges are further enhanced with Legion Jewels for greater efficiency.

This build uses 9 auras in total. For added damage, it uses Hatred, Zealotry, and Herald of Ice, and also includes Frostbite, Elemental Weakness Curse in the form of auras.

In order for the characters to survive, it uses Determination, Grace, and Discipline. In addition to this, it uses Clarity to smoother build operations.

In order to use all 9 types of auras, Honored Tattoo of the Hatungo that improves appointment efficiency is very necessary. However, if you want to save some POE Currency costs, you can omit some auras without major problems.

POE: Honoured Tattoo of the Hatungo

Passive Node

Next, let’s take a brief look at Jewel setting. In this build, we use 2 Large Cluster Jewels, 2 Medium Cluster Jewels, and 8 Unique Jewels.

First, let’s talk about Grand Spectrum. You can use 2 Power and 1 Frenzy to get 6 Minimum Power Charges and 3 Minimum Frenzy Charges.

If you’re starting with Primer, along the way you might consider taking Grand Spectrum with Avoid Elemental Ailments and getting the same option on the boots to gain immunity to all Elemental Ailments.

This is possible because Astral Projector already has a base 30% Elemental Ailments Avoidance option. Alternatively, you can choose Grand Spectrum, which increases critical strike chance by 25%.

In Forbidden flame and Forbidden Flesh Jewels, you can get Heart of Destruction node. This is a very useful node, providing 30% more damage to a single target and increasing the map’s area of effect, making it a valuable addition to the build.

POE: Analysis of the Grand Spectrum jewel series

In addition, in the middle stage of character development, Watcher’s Eye is indispensable. You’ll also want to consider making efficient use of passive nodes via Thread of Hope. Also, Dominus Legion Jewel can significantly increase Power Charges efficiency.

We should also note that through Thread of Hope at 12 o’clock, you can get 5 beneficial nodes, including Heart of Ice, Mental Rapidity, Blast Radius, Arcane Focus, and Essence Surge. Keep in mind that this configuration may change based on character level.

With Watcher’s Eye, you have access to a variety of attack and defense options. In my case, I get 1.2%–1.8% critical chance when affected by Hatred. Consecrated Ground created while affected by Zealotry increases damage taken by enemies by 8%–10% and gains 6%–10% of maximum mana as an additional maximum energy shield while being affected by Clarity.

It is worth mentioning that Militant Faith Timeless Jewel must have the name “Dominus.” This will change the nearby keystone node to “Inner Conviction”, giving you the option of “3% more Spell Damage per Power Charge.”

In this build, Assassin’s Mark is connected to Mark On Hit Support. This means that, in addition to the curse auras I mentioned earlier, you can use additional tags.

Without any special settings, a character can only apply a maximum of 1 curse to an enemy. However, you can increase the number of curses your character can inflict on enemies to a maximum of 3 by using Occultist Ascendancy node “Unholy Authority” and the passive node “Whispers of Doom.”

Overall, making a Self-Cast Ice Nova Occultist build in Path of Exile was an exciting and rewarding endeavor. By doing thorough research and understanding the different methods, you can create a persona that suits your goals!

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