








Looking for suggestions on an Occultist Cold-BV league starter. Budget: low (Mostly spending for 2 strong prefixes on staff)
If you've got suggestions on where to take it for min-maxing, that would also be great; I'm coming back after a couple of leagues so I'm *rusty* - should I go powercharges with 2x Void Battery? Something else? etc - I expect I'll want to respec eventually once I can craft/purchase decent cluster jewels, but don't want to assume I'll be getting them pre-red maps.
If anyone has a better-looking PoB using Elementalist instead of Occultist, I'm all ears, I'd just prefer to play a witch this league.
Tree has OK life (164%), 41/36 block (Would like to get this higher, but will probably require items/glancing blows), and has some regen on block and the Divine Shield keystone. I'm only seeing ~5k armor though which seems very low. Occultist ascendancy will give me 20% reduced damage taken from hits, and then enfeeble on top (Perhaps that should be temporal chains instead). Playing a build that freezes & chills and is mobile is also itself a defensive layer, so hopefully this character won't die too often; Damage is 500k at 10 blades pre-buff, should reach ~750k+ post-patch? That seems pretty good for a league starter that's not minions, but my internal metrics might be out of date.
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UPDATE: ok, so at what point does cold BV start to feel good at bossing, damage wise? The switch to power charges seems to just provide more damage, and somewhere along the way of upgrading it, it starts to feel fine. The consensus is clearly that I shouldn't start with BV, but I'd like to know what the magic number is when I can switch to it.
Life
4604
Mana
163
Energy Shield
214
DPS
771K
Effective Hit Pool
Chaos Res
28
Fire Res
75
Cold Res
75
Lightning Res
75
Armour
5K
Evasion
156
Block
41 | 36
Crit Chance
56%
Crit Multi
416%
Rage
0
Strength
139
Intelligence
282
Dexterity
159
Ward
0
Item Quantity
0%
Item Rarity
0%
Movement Speed
27%