CRITICAL WINTER ORB

BUILD

INFORMATION
This is an Inquisitor based build focusing on the Skill Winter Orb. This build has a great clear speed and can reach great amounts of DPS on Bosses since your critical strikes ignore Elemental Resistances. It's easy to level and a great build for beginners.
Pros
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Easy to play
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Good currency farmer
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Ignore Enemies' Resistances
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Great Clear Speed
Cons
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Need Gem swaps for Guardians and Shaper
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Vulnerable to Elemental Reflect

EQUIPMENT
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BODY ARMOUR
- Carcass Jack is the best body armour for this build, it grants up to 70 life, 50% increased area damage, 50% increased area of effect and even 12% to all elemental resistances.
- You can also use a rare energy shield body armour with life and elemental resistances. Examples here.
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WEAPON
- I recommend Dual Wielding weapons that grant extra damage for you, but if you want extra defenses you can totally wear a Shield on your Off-hand slot.
- I recommend dual wielding Void Battery, each wand grants up to 20% increased cast speed, 1 extra Power charge, and 25% increased spell damage per Power Charge. Since you have 8 Power charges, you end up with 400% increased spell damage minus 80% because of another mod, but 320% increased spell damage is too much man!
- Doryani's Catalyst is an awesome example of budget weapon, it grants up to 132% increased elemental damage, and up to 40% critical chance.
- Divinarius is even cheaper and very good, it grants up to 70% increased spell damage and 132% increased critical chance.
- If you want to wear a shield, I recommend Lioneye's Remorse that grants a great amount of Life, Armour and extra defenses against projectiles.
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HELMET
- A rare helmet with life, elemental resistances and armour. Examples here.
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GLOVES
- Rare gloves with life, elemental resistances and armour. Examples here.
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BOOTS
- Rare boots with movement speed, life, elemental resistances and armour. Examples here.
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BELT
- A rare belt with life and elemental resistances. Examples here.
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RING #1
- A rare Ring with life, Dexterity and some elemental resistances. Examples here.
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RING #2
- A rare Ring with life, Dexterity and some elemental resistances. Examples here.
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AMULET
- A rare Amulet with Life, Dexterity and some resistances. Examples here.
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FLASKS
- Divine Life Flasks. Look for mods like ''instant recovery'', ''removes bleeding'' and ''removes freeze''. Examples here and here.
- Diamond Flask for more critical strikes. Look for mods like "increased duration" and "increased armour during flask effect". Examples here.
- Quicksilver Flask is awesome to increase your movement speed. Look for "Increased Duration" and "Increased Movement Speed during flask effect". Examples here.
- 1 Stibnite Flask for evasion boost and blind source for your enemies. Examples here.
- The good old Atziri's Promise for a big boost to your damage and life leech.

GEMS
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BODY ARMOUR







When facing bosses, change Increased Area of Effect for Concentrated Effect
Increased Area of Effect
Hypothermia (If 6 Sockets Linked)
Controlled Destruction (If 5 Sockets Linked)
Greater Multiple Projectiles
Power charge on Critical
Winter Orb
For Guardian, Shaper or Elder use:

Winter Orb

Cast While Channeling



Concentrated Effect (If 5 Sockets Linked)
Blade Vortex
Power Charge On Critical Strike

Hypothermia (If 6 Sockets Linked)
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GLOVES, BOOTS OR HELMET




Orb of Storms
Increased Duration
Culling Strike
Arcane Surge (level 8)
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GLOVES, BOOTS OR HELMET




Cast When Damage Taken (level 1)
Immortal Call (level 3)
Increased Duration
Vaal Righteous Fire
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GLOVES, BOOTS OR HELMET


Warlord's Mark (level 1)
Increased Area of Effect

Increased Duration

Cast When Damage Taken (level 1)
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MAIN HAND



Flame Dash
Faster Casting
Summon Ice Golem
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OFF HAND


Vaal Grace
Herald of Ice

Increased Duration
THIS BUILD'S FAQ
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Is there a good place to buy unique items?
- Not only for unique items, poe.trade or pathofexile.com/trade are great websites for trading your items.
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I'm lvl 40 and I'm dying a lot, what can I do?
- Please take a look at your Elemental Resistances, they are really important for your survivability. After lvl 40 try to keep at least 50% of each. The meximum is 75%, try to reach that when on end game.
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I don't have as much HP as the gameplay shows and I've followed the Skill Tree step by step. Can you help me?
- Look for more HP at your rare gear. You can have ''+89 to maximum life'' on your helmet for instance.
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You say the build is cheap, but a 6 Linked body armour is expensive. How?
- 6 Linked body armour is not mandatory for this build to work. Maximize a build with the best possible items and 6 Linkeds takes a good amount of currency. Start using 4 Linkeds on low tier maps in order to farm currency to upgrade your gear.
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Why Cast When Damage Taken at level 1 and Immortal Call at level 3?
- Cast When Damage Taken can only support spell gems that have the same required level or lower. At level 1 the required level of Cast When Damage Taken is 38, the same as Immortal Call at level 3.
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Cast When Damage Taken cannot trigger Vaal skills, why do you put them on the same setup?
- Vaal Haste is not there to be triggered by Cast When Damage Taken, but to be supported by Increased Duration.
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Why Arcane Surge level 7?