Cold Acid Flask Falconer @ 1173 Frostbite Damage - T6 Throwing Cost Rings (-4) Test | Last Epoch 1.0
Channel: Juse
Date: 2024-03-03

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Level 98 gameplay in corruption 192. Lowkey playable now but the sustain isn't there yet vs bosses. Solutions are probably Sapping Strikes with T7 rings (but it's only 2 mana gained per direct Flask cast for a 4 node cost and the health gain doesn't really help us with ward ontop) and/or a bigger mana pool - gone mana implicit on wand (crystal). No T7 rings up for sale today. Hit rank 7, upgraded rare gear to full exalted, not got BiS rolls on gear eg. missing cold res on the belt and would want a % res instead of crit strike avoidance on the helm. No better options up atm. Update once I hit rank 8 and chuck on some 3-4 lp rolls.

Why play cold Flask trapper over fire/poison?
🛡️ Frostbite Shackles gloves turns enemy freezes into free ward over your 80%+ dodge, 3k+ armor and 100% glancing blows. Scales with freeze rate multiplier. Works on bosses. You can easily get over 1000% FRM.

EDITS:
- Changed 75% cold resistance to 100% frostbite chance on hit. Should do more DPS - will test once I get it. Also note 300% freeze rate multiplier scales frostbite harder than 100% cold damage so you want that instead.

Notes:
- Frostbite = A DoT that deals Cold Damage and increases chance to be Frozen by 20%. It has 36 base damage and lasts 3 seconds. Can stack with no limit but only the first 30 stacks increase chance to be Frozen. The build aims to stack as many frostbite DoTs within its duration by using Explosive Trap to fling out a fucktonne of Acid Flasks to shred shit fast. The dmg ramps up nice vs bosses. It's got over 200% Frostbite chance (applies multiple stacks per Flask hit) off of the core 3 uniques: Frostbite Shackles/Snowdrift/Volatile Ice. It’s got double cold penetration. Every 10% freeze rate multiplier you’ve got converts to 2% cold penetration via Snowdrift. Every 5% uncapped cold res converts to 3% cold pen via the Knowledge of Immunity Acid Flask node. No pen cap.
- Penetration bypasses a given amount of % resistances of the enemy. This even can go into the negative, so even on enemies with 0 resistance (which most enemies have) it will increase your dmg. Shred = -5% (or -2% vs bosses) res to enemies, stacks up to x times.
- Base dam of frostbite scales harder with freeze rate multi than cold damage.
- You wanna be able to sustain the Clustered Explosives node in Explosive Trap. It's a huge DPS boost but extremely mana hungry. You want Acid Flask to cost 0 mana to be able to spam Trap freely, -5 on both rings (T7) is the goal but they're pricey. -4s are reasonable. 
- Looking for 2 main things on gear: elemental DoT and freeze rate multiplier. 
- Elecoe's additional Flask damage doesn't affect your DoT. It's solid for crit builds. We're mainly using it for the +2 levels to 3 of our throwing skills and the all round amazing stats it gives. Was buffed in 1.0 to give % dodge rating as an implicit. Pots won't be an issue with leech.
- Ash compartment is our only source of cold shred so you want at least 1 point in it. Works with Rending Talons.
- The Smoke Traps node gives INSANE dodge and 100% gb (no benefit over 100 sadge) - we're at 90% gb without it active.
- Gear was bought for 50-300k ea. Was able to get all the rares, Throne of Ambition (150k) and Frostbite Shackles (100k) at rank 3.
- Explosive Trap- Instrument of the Alchemist node flings aren’t direct Flask casts thus can't refill the bird's charges.
- Tried dagger with poison nodes, wand has better damage, survivability and can get mana implicit.
- Sky Signal only scales falcon damage- 3% cold pen for 3s but it stacks infinitely and you can often get 40+ stacks. You can maintain the buff if you detonate a trap every 3s.
- 1 point in Flash Frozen adds free chill to the build. Extra tankiness. Chill = -12% AS/CS/MS for 4s, stacks 3 times.
- 1 point in Hindering Mixture is to proc 6% damage off Strike Their Flank in Falconer so you don't need it on the weapon. Go cold pen/minion cold pen. BiS quad rolls are pretty hard to find.
- Throwing damage leech blessing only affects Trap and Shuriken hit damage and Flask DoT but not frostbite DoT off flasks. Can be replaced for % void res. Bleeding Heart and relic implicit leech frostbite ticks.
- Cold pools can only apply 3-4 stacks of frostbite and the Amatoxic Pools 10% DoT multiplier for 4s. The bird can create pools too with it's Flasks. This won't put your Flask on cd. 

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