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Ice Sage - Delves Update
Ice Sage
build by Chocolegit
added 5 years ago.
This build was updated for
Delves
This is my Ice Sage build for Delves. It is not great at farming, as it has very low Movement Speed. This is a raw damage build, for highest DPS possible, while still being able to survive deep Delves.
DamageDelves
Stat Priority
Notes: Light is your most important stat. Make sure you have all of your light stats on your cosmic gems maxed, and boosted. Magic Damage will give the highest coefficient, so this is your top priority for DPS. Critical Damage comes in second, adding the next most to your coefficient. Next up is Attack Speed. With Attack Speed, and running the Class Gem, you will be getting more procs of Pain Freeze which means higher DPS.
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Notes: You want Crystal Equipment, so the second stat is always going to be light, followed by the last three stats.
Ally and Flasks
Ally
- 300 Light
- 20.0% Magic Damage
Increases cooldown recovery speed by 25%.
Puck is your best bet here. Decreasing the cooldown of your ultimate is just too good to pass up.
Flask
We take Arcane and Chronomantic here to get a massive buff to our Magic Damage, and Cooldown on our Ultimate, which will give more damage, and attack speed.
Empowered Gems
Stinging Curse - Over the course of long fights this is fantastic DPS.
Cubic Curtain - This is for survivability in harder Delves.
Pain Freeze - The damage from your class gem is incredible when paired with Attack Speed
Berserk Battler - We use this specifically for the 750 Light boost we get when it procs. There is no better gem for Delves.
Stinging Curse
Dealing damage applies damage-over-time effects to enemies.
Cubic Curtain
Avoiding damage grants a protective shield, absorbing the next attack and stunning the attacker.
Pain Freeze Class Gem
Basic Attacks now freeze enemies for 1 second on the first hit, in addition to their existing chill.
Hitting enemies three times in a row with Basic Attacks causes them to explode, taking additional damage.
Berserk Battler Cosmic Gem
Damaging enemies causes a frenzied state, adding a small increase to attack speed and Light.
Continued damage to enemies extends the frenzied state until it causes a berserk state, greatly increasing attack speed and Light.
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You want to be spamming M1 and M2 and using your 1 and 2 on CD. Use Flasks to keep Arcane Emblem active at all times, and reducing the Cooldown of Frozen Ward
Gems - Fire, Air, and Water(Lesser and Empowered): you want Magic Damage with two boosts, Critical Damage with one boost, and Critical Hit Chance with no boosts. If you find yourself over 100% Critical Hit Chance, you can reroll some of the Critical Hit Chance on your Gems to Maximum Health. For Cosmic Gems: you want Light with three boosts, Magic Damage with no boosts, and Critical Damage with no boosts.
Food - Freerange Electrolytic Crystals - Dropped from 115 + Delves
Banner - Enshadowed Torch of the Hive - Crafted with Enshadowed Tendril Torch from Leviathan u10, Banner Pole of the Arcane Way, Hive Standard, and 150 Inert Geode
Mount - Balelight Flyer - Obtained for 999 Inert Geode