Frost Claw Sorcerer - THE SECRET WEAPON | UPDATE: IT WORKS! | Last Epoch 1.1

[@FrozenSentinel]

UPDATE: Confirmed it works! Made a proper guide: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4PSgp5uabaWmtU

[@AdolfMauthner-cx5di]

bro u want destroy ur pc?

[@FrozenSentinel]

hopefully not

[@lucassalesa.3472]

I have a doubt, first nice build bro! Really cool what you make, i love Ice Builds like this. So, i start with the budget planner in the description and, after that and farming i switch to which planner?

[@firewing95]

Great vid! I was going to league start Healing Hands Divine Bolt but you got me convinced to start this. Keep the vids coming!

[@wojciechgiza9277]

Everyone is crying how frost claw is dead, useless skill, cold dead. And we have this guy with his excel spreadsheet „hold my beer, I will show you how it’s done”. Great guide, definitely going to try this and see how far it can go.

[@mikkj9331]

always has been lol

[@flikooi6858]

You just copy and paste from youtube build~

[@Eckilisk]

Love it, and perfect timing on the video release, thank you very much :D

[@CrystronHalq]

I knew this wanna gonna be insane damage. But you figured out how to get frost claw above 40 mana. Well done

[@IndianCasualGaming]

What amazing work

[@cH1n0eL]

the community's secret weapon!

[@Adanoft]

Nice I will start with Spark charge build too. But use Liath's Machinations lightning fireballs to trigger it, Arcane ascendant auto procing Lightning blasts for even more spark charges. Good luck with your Frost Claw build :)

[@bradsbyg08]

this sounds fun! got a build planner?

[@Adanoft]

@@bradsbyg08 Sorry no. Played around with it during last cycle. Just going to try build on during 1.1. Will start with Fireball Spreading inferno before the Lightning stuff can come online. Spreading flames is very good early game. Will be fun to test out how fireball channeled /burn. Later shock works out.

[@kamm3021]

Thanks for the hard work, all well explained as always 👍🏻 I don't feel like playing all over again through the same maps, i may skip 1.1 I have few characters and already 500 hours on 1.0 i think it's enough, not sure yet tho

[@Eiszaepfle]

yeah wasnt sure what i will do this cycle... but the last time it worked perfectly to follow you and "copy" you :D will do it again, have a nice cycle and cu online!

[@FrozenSentinel]

:D I certainly hope I don't mislead with this one haha

[@lord461]

@@FrozenSentinel Don't worry about misleading bro you keep doing what you do best. If it doesn't work out we can always look forward to a more fine tuned build. Thanks for all the hard work you put in your builds.

[@goldenKeep70]

Amazing video!

[@t1kker]

Build is awesome! Thank you so much for your work! I'm already going 150+ corrupt and have Budget setup. One question - before I can start collecting better equip (like red rings and etc), intelligence the most importent anyway or I can use T6-T7 %spelldmg/%elemdmg?

[@FrozenSentinel]

INT always #1 priority anywhere that can roll it

[@t1kker]

​@@FrozenSentinel Thank u, I got it. Have a great league

[@coucoucmoi8651]

Thx a lot i'm hyped by your build. I'm a new play (MG) and i'm not sure which perfect affix are really mandatory on unique item. Like how bad do I want "increased spark explosion area" on Enigma or "mana spent gained on ward" on Strand? Would be really nice if you could tell us which affix need to be perfect and which affix we don't care about. Maybe in a video or on a planner i don't know, if you have the time, ty.

[@FrozenSentinel]

The most important affix is INT for anything that can have INT, mana spent gained as ward for anything that can have that, mana / spell critical strike chance for anything that has that, reduced bonus damage from crits to as close to 100 as possible, cooldown recovery speed, then resists.

[@somohapien]

How much tooltip cd on teleport do you get with the build? Looks quite good but I'm a bit afraid might feel clunky due to the spender/builder with teleport + meteor. Also getting snap freeze on bar instead of focus makes more sense.

[@FrozenSentinel]

You can get TP to 4-5 seconds. It works out to something like 50 ish mana regen per second. Plus the new refund node in the sorc tree / a little bit back from gift of winter in FC. You should be able to cast pretty consistently. And with the big mana pool you can dump a huge load onto a boss when you want. I agree snap freeze probably better in general, I wasn't 100% sold on focus as we probably don't want to be low mana. If you are spam casting a lot focus might be better for the instant 400+ mana recovery every 7 seconds or something. That's also an option. You could probably drop the meteor tech if you did that with a big enough mana pool.

[@snapow]

epic build, can't wait to see the price of those mana armor idols haha

[@FrozenSentinel]

Eyy Snap! Haha probably, mana stack items in general probably going to be pricey with how many people are running it

[@snapow]

@@FrozenSentinel 25 spark charges per cast is definitely balanced! Really wanna see how this build performs

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@snapow Same! It's a bit of a wildcard though, I give it 50/50 that there isn't some bug or unknown "gotcha" preventing it from working. If it works it could probably scale pretty hard into a good group DPS

[@tflydr]

Hey Frozen, love your stuff. Is there a reason this build stacks spell crit but doesn't take rending cascade in the FC tree? Isn't it base crit or no?

[@FrozenSentinel]

It doesn't matter if Frost Claw crits or not, our damage comes from Spark Charge which does not inherit extra crit from FC tree

[@tflydr]

@@FrozenSentinel ah very true, i always forget nova and fc are just vehicles to get sparks onto mobs lmao. Thanks for the timely response man, you're a great content creator.

[@colehalvorson1307]

Would love to see you make a lethal mirage bladedancer with the new 2h sword. Im trying to plan it out but I'm not confident I know enough to make it work!

[@FrozenSentinel]

I'm probably not the most qualified for that, haha! Have not played much Rogue since 0.9

[@GerdionXT]

QQ can I make Sorc build for 1K push with no super nova as that skill is hurting my eyes or super nova will be meta anyewy in the end and three is no to much sence to go sorc without nova anyway ? For example beam or/and meteor?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Nova is 100% optional for this version, most of the spark charges will be applied by FC itself unlike the other version.

[@GerdionXT]

​@@FrozenSentinelThx

[@kaielGL]

One question tho, why are you currently using the nodes of Freeze rate Multiplier on FC?? I mean rending cascade and cold and calculating? Bc the nodes that converts it to lightning says it converts frostbite to shock, but not freeze....

[@FrozenSentinel]

Reowyn's Veil gives ward per cast based on Freeze Rate Multi, I assume Spark Artillery doesn't remove that but could be wrong

[@user-oi7nu5do6i]

Which do you recommend: Mad Alchemist's Ladle or Dragorath's Claw? I'm not good at English so I didn't understand. Thank you for the great video.

[@FrozenSentinel]

I'm not sure what will be better yet. Ladle will probably be higher damage overall, and more benefit from the ailments it applies, but Dragorath Claw will instantly detonate spark charges which means you damage gets applied faster, you will get hit less most likely. Dragorath also has %all resistance and crit multiplier. I'll be trying both.

[@user-oi7nu5do6i]

@@FrozenSentinel Thanks for the detailed answer!

[@Msuix-jj5oj]

@@FrozenSentinel Have you considered/evaluated Lightning Blast's skill tree node for Blind? With dragorath generating lightning blasts we essentially immediately apply blind to targets, which makes them unable to crit. So far it applies reliably by my eye, and would allow us to skip crit reduction suffixes altogether on gear.

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@Msuix-jj5oj until you get crit by a spire or anything else from offscreen, or a boss you haven't hit in the last couple seconds, or anything that damages you before one of your lightning blasts has applied blind, or anything that does damage / can crit but can't be blinded - it's just not reliable enough

[@NhuQuynh-nv7fp]

Can you do a planner without all of the epic gear? Like what exalted items do we need until we reach to the endgame gear. Thanks so much !

[@FrozenSentinel]

I talked about it briefly in the gear section but basically the main things you need to prioritize is: Intelligence, Critical Strike Multiplier, Cooldown Recovery, Mana, Mana Spent Gained as ward. The only thing mandatory is getting +3/+4 base crit somewhere (eg. Prismatic Helm, Dragorath Dagger, or the new Phantom Grip rings) and Fragment of Enigma

[@FrozenSentinel]

Added a Budget Planner

[@NhuQuynh-nv7fp]

@@FrozenSentinel Ty brother

[@hiimHit]

how would you start with a regular frost claw runemaster? don't wanna risk my first day 1 start and I wanna do a tried and safe buid

[@FrozenSentinel]

I personally wouldn't start with Frost Claw, but I know some people do. I feel like leveling will be easier with another skill until Frost Claw comes online.

[@AB-zj7wh]

what are you using to get prism shards with prismatic gaze? the only skill you have that can generate them is flame ward, is that enough?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Shards don't matter, helm is for crit

[@botronnie3657]

will you be updating this build planner bcs i really want to play this build for starter but nut sure for gear and stuff

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea workin' on it, just hit 100 in top 5 using this build

[@gabemaurer4969]

Im torn right now between a shield bash forge guard, avalanche storm bolt shaman or a frost claw sorc. They all seem good and fun in 1.1.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea agree, a lot of fun choices this league

[@CodingWithDennis]

Any reason why you did not spend all yours point in the Meteor and Lightning Blast with Drago Claw build?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Any points unallocated didn't have an obvious good spot to put them, I will have them allocated in my updated guide now that I've actually had a chance to play the build

[@minus552-j7d]

I see you have the progression slider in your video but the planners linked don't seem to have it

[@FrozenSentinel]

They have passive progression but not skill progression, will work on update

[@PatrykJanczyk]

i am trying to make transition but your endgame tree is lacking points to set for skills. can you tell me where to set the remaing points

[@FrozenSentinel]

Anything I left unspec'd is not important and up to preference, I didn't want there to be a question of what to prioritize vs stuff that doesn't add much benefit

[@SmexerP]

how much worse would the regular frost claw runemaster be compared to this to which you showed a guide a few days ago? Im thinking sticking to the regular frostclaw runemaster just because i enjoy spamming frost claw without running out of mana every few casts having to use focus and what not before being able to use it again.

[@FrozenSentinel]

They will play very differently, this one will have slow high damage bursts, and generate ward based on spell cost / mana stack. That one will have many many low damage bursts very quickly, with some ward per cast, and some ward from runic invo. The RM one is more safe as it's a build we've played before with some minor changes, this one is a bit of a wildcard. It could be S+++ tier or it could be really janky. On paper this one looks really strong

[@SmexerP]

@@FrozenSentinel i see, im probably going to stick with the RM one. i saw that you are using boneclamor barbute on the sorc one, couldnt you use it aswell on the RM one instead of pristmatic gaze for more int and just use two of the new +% base crit rings to get the crit chance you would have gotten from prismatic gaze, wouldnt that be better?

[@SmexerP]

@@FrozenSentinel Ill start leveling with glacier, at what level would you switch to frost claw with the RM version? should i wait until i got at least enigma?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yea you can use the new rings for crit if you can slam int on them

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yeah wait till enigma, Glacier is strong enough that you won't have issues

[@lucassalesa.3472]

In the Standard planner, why is Freeze Snap on the skill bar and ele nova on the Skill tree? which one should i use

[@FrozenSentinel]

snap freeze provides a stun to help bosses, useful while leveling. Nova doesn't need to be equipped to be triggered from frost claw.

[@lucassalesa.3472]

@@FrozenSentinel oooh okay, thanks bro! really helpful

[@tonyverdechi9157]

OK so the trick is to choose frost claw nodes that increase mana cost so it cost >40 mana so it trigger Arcane current bonus?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Correct

[@tonyverdechi9157]

@@FrozenSentinel Well, look like I'm gonna have to try it ;)

[@Equilibrium2903]

Fun build, but I am really lacking Damage after the transition to Empowered. I mean, I am still progression, but its slow af to kill any rare mobs. Looking forward to your update to maybe get some ideas of gear progression between bad and absolute premium endgame (1LE Red Rings?)

[@FrozenSentinel]

Working on it

[@Sidnv]

What about using Ward gained on traversal based on missing mana, converting Focus to a traversal skill and using OOM focus tech? You couldn't use this with teleport + meteor refund tech, but perhaps this could replace it while also being a way to generate ward? Alternatively, maybe that mod could be useful even with the teleport tech, you're probably going to use the teleport refund setup when you're low on mana, so that mod should give you 500-1k ward on using teleport.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Yup its an option, the problem is the oom tech adds a big cooldown to focus which doesnt feel good for your main traversal. I think you probably want to aim for low mana and drop the "ward based on current mana when you cast a 40 mana spell" nodes in the sorc tree and run focus with experimental, or you aim for full mana and do meteor tech with the ward based on current mana passive

[@Sidnv]

@@FrozenSentinel That makes sense. Also thinking about the corruption changes, it's probably better to prioritize speed over everything else now, so would the exalt priority on boots actually be move speed and then int? I know int scales both damage and defense but this build looks like it will crush 1000 corruption without any issues so the faster speed might be more valuable.

[@FrozenSentinel]

It will be up to personal preference but maybe

[@metalsteel5631]

that is a clearing god. that's like 50k boss dmg per click.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Hopefully more, you get a huge amount of inc % for free from our int stacking, and we will have a good chunk of crit multi, and some more multi, and some shred / pen

[@georgislavov7999]

mmmm Lightning Aegis where? :D I think this build can easily fit it and skipping on 25% DR seems a waste?

[@FrozenSentinel]

You lose the shield when ~300 ish damage is taken to your ward, I've run aegis before and it constantly pops in echos from any monster hit. You can run it with the dragorath version easily using LB

[@chaserossi1193]

好棒的影片

[@huntingwithhizo6508]

Need a section of the video for actual gameplay of it. Didn't see any.

[@FrozenSentinel]

That is because this video was uploaded 2 days before 1.1 launched, see my updated guide from yesterday: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4PSgp5uabaWmtU

[@aefoaanemone4731]

You have elementalnova in builder but on stream u're specced into meteors. Also there's no skill passive points progression for active skills on the planner :( Edit: nvm, i didn't know elemental nova is barely visible so i thought u're now using it D:

[@FrozenSentinel]

I didn't bother with elemental nova after trying, it adds almost no damage vs the 30+ spark charges per second we apply normally.

[@rapidloving]

I can't imagine it not having an internal cd of like 0.25 or something. Don't wanna bust your bubble.

[@FrozenSentinel]

Mike said that mana was the balancing factor, but you could be right, that would suck. If this doesn't end up working we have a lot of strong sorc builds as a backup

[@rapidloving]

@FrozenSentinel could also be per trigger since you technically consume the 40 mana on the cast of the skill. So once per cast.

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@rapidloving I've had multiple test realm folks say that it should work on the recasts like in Frost Claw, so that would be a surprise if it didn't

[@Baxnetgames]

the build is great but my fps is just too low in density and bosses 😥

[@FrozenSentinel]

:(

[@antoinemoore8898]

Would Frost Claw and Glacier eat up too much mana if used together?

[@FrozenSentinel]

What is the reasoning behind wanting to use them both, is there a synergy you are looking to use?

[@antoinemoore8898]

@@FrozenSentinel New to the game. Saw both and was wondering about it

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@antoinemoore8898 usually you go for one primary skill and boost it up as much as possible, occasionally you use one for AoE and one for single target. Glacier and Frost Claw are both AoE and single target skills so I don't think there is much reason to use both at the same time. You could try both though and see which you like more

[@antoinemoore8898]

@@FrozenSentinel Thanks

[@Roiddz]

Enigma should have gotten the bat, one item scales 10k flat dmg lol. For the good of the game it shouldn't be a thing but since it wasn't touched its off to the races baby.

[@FrozenSentinel]

I agree! I expected a nerf, maybe in 1.2 lol

[@fabiobianchi7268]

Hey mate...u still going cof?

[@FrozenSentinel]

yea

[@lolleonlolable]

this gonna have zero defenses after all the ward nerf stuff ?

[@FrozenSentinel]

It's not too bad, we get ward per cast from 40+ mana cost spell in sorc tree, and a bunch of ward per sec per mana, and a bunch of mana spent gained as ward, and some extra ward threshold. If you run dragorath + boneclamor you get more from that too. You can also run reactive ward + twisted heart or teleport conversion to get a huge boost of ward, or run flame ward with the big ward generator tech. (all the flat ward nodes) Exsanguinous / experimental gloves / last steps is even an option too if damage ends up not being a problem at all. That + reactive ward + the low life flame ward tech can get you to 75% of your max life as ward per second essentially, still really strong.

[@lolleonlolable]

@@FrozenSentinel i see i might give it a try then, im not really sure whats best for hc jet

[@Aelchemist]

Do you have item filters?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Working on that now

[@Aelchemist]

@@FrozenSentinel Awesome! Thank you and thanks for sharing the build!

[@FrozenSentinel]

@@Aelchemist Filter is done - pastebin.com/qKZAj3ni this is a mix of ter3k's glacier leveling and my end game sorc FC filter.

[@Aelchemist]

@@FrozenSentinel Thank you, really appreciate the ping!

[@lucassalesa.3472]

@@FrozenSentinel any update of this filter? its amazing

[@jetrpg22]

I mean meteor refund tech doesn't pay for this. Focus with mana stack prob needed.

[@FrozenSentinel]

you dont need to spam it like the other FC build

[@balboa213]

im dumb and cant get the loot filter to work?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Need to go to the link, highlight all the text inside the big textbox, press cntrl + c or right click -> copy, then go into game, open filters, then go to create a new filter, then "paste from clipboard contents"

[@balboa213]

@FrozenSentinel i did that but still wasnt working, which is why i was confused haha

[@FrozenSentinel]

Sorry I am not sure then, there might be a bug, otherwise I recommend watching a youtube video on importing filters or submitting a bug report if that doesn't work. I've never had an issue personally

[@andreleao2069]

Black hole dint work?

[@FrozenSentinel]

Didn't try it but even if it does on the hits it feels clunky to play

[@devonm8043]

Looks interesting. Who’s to say they don’t nerf this 1 week in?? Honestly don’t trust em

[@FrozenSentinel]

Nerf is unlikely, but "bugfix" is possible. It doesn't seem to rely on bugs though from what I can see. I really hope that is the case anyway, they could technically change their mind at any point but that would upset a lot of players

[@dodang_9147]

@@FrozenSentinel i doubt they'll nerf it. sorc was memed to be one worst classes in the game. the other 3 memed class are shaman, forge guard and marksman. forge guard and shaman seem very mediocre changes, sorc on the other hand... look like best class in the game.

[@moonxp13]

Add some gameplay to your build guides or else newer players dont know what to expect from the build

[@FrozenSentinel]

I literally can't add gameplay, the node I'm building around won't be available until 1.1 launches tomorrow lol. This probably would be more suited to an experienced player, but it should still be fine

[@tflydr]

dawg lmao

[@kith190]

No gameplay footage = Written guide, when all you guidemakers will learn? It is actually frustrating

[@FrozenSentinel]

I find comments like these frustrating tbh lol. This video was uploaded 2 days before 1.1 launched so including gameplay was literally impossible, see my updated guide from yesterday: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z4PSgp5uabaWmtU

[@lucassalesa.3472]

I don't understand these part: "Enable the HIDE ALL rule above the leveling rules once you transition to FC sorc - here is Terek's guide:"

[@FrozenSentinel]

you check that box when you are done leveling to hide the leveling rules