Dear Exile! Path of Exile 3.8 has begun several days. Today, I will show you Winter Orb Build – Elementalist Witch of PoE Blight. You can read this post or watch the original video to learn more details about this build.
EQUIPMENT
Look for these stats on rare PoE Items:
- Spell Damage
- Cold Damage
- Projectile Damage
- Elemental Damage
- Area Damage
- Elemental Resistances
- Life
- Mana Regeneration
You need mana regeneration for this build:
- Always look for mana regeneration on your rings.
- Try to find one with life and some resistances as well.
Recommended Rare Helmet
A shaper helmet also grants a benefit for this build:
- Socketed Gems supported by level xx Hypothermia.
- We are equipping vaal blade vortex on this helmet. It will help our single target damage.
Recommended Uniques
Shade of Solaris
- I highly recommend Shade of Solaris as your main weapon.
- It grants up to 20% of Elemental Damage as Extra Chaos Damage.
- 21% increased spell damage.
- 200% Increased spell damage if you’ve dealt a critical strike in the past 8 seconds.
- This unique is not so cheap, costing about 13 Chaos Orbs.
- But don’t worry, this amount is easy to farm on maps and you can use Singularity as budget alternative while doing so.
Singularity
- While saving PoE Currency to buy Shade of Solaris you can use Singularity, that grants up to 40-70 lightning damage to spell, 30 increased Elemental Damage and 80% increased Damage against Hindered Enemies.
- It also grants up to 18% Cast Speed and 8% reduced Mana Cost of Skills.
- Above all nearby enemies will be hindered with 25% less movement speed.
- It is super cheap.
Carcass Jack
- Up to 70 Life
- Up to 12% to all Elemental Resistances
- Up to 1045 Evasion
- 50% Increased Area of Effect
- Up to 50% Area Damage
The Pandemonius
- Up to 30% increased Cold Damage
- Up to 40% increased Cold Resistance
- Blind enemies on hit
- Penetrates 20% of enemies’ Cold Resistance.
- This Amulet is expensive, and note that it is only recommend and not mandatory.
Recommended Flasks
Divine Life Flask
- Your Divine Life Flasks must have Instant Recover
- To maximize your defenses, look for “Immune to Bleeding” and “Imune to Freeze and Chill” as secondary Stats.
Quicksilver Flask
- It is awesome for increasing your Clear Speed.
- Best Mods for Quicksilver flasks are “Increased Movement Speed During Flask Effect” and “Increased Duration”.
The Wise Oak
- Mainly because the 15% Penetration.
- But remember your uncapped Cold Resistance must be the highest.
- Keep in mind that if you have the same uncapped value for all 3 elemental resistances, you are going to get the Offensive and Deffensive Buff for all Elements, just like the Avatal.
Atziri's Promise
- An offensive Flask that provides a huge boost to your DPS and also Increases your Life Leech.
- If you don't have one, you can buy yours now, as it fits in 95% of PoE Builds.
Dying Sun
- Dying Sun is Expensive but not mandatory. It increases your clear speed and damage with 2 additional projectiles.
My Gameplay Gear
This is the gear I've used to record the gameplay seen on this guide. Please note that my equipment is not perfect, you can achieve way more with an expensive one. Every piece is fully linked.
Recommended Enchantments
| Of Reflection | Winter Orb Stages | Penetration |
| - Creates a clone of you that attacks with your weapon. Good for not taking all the damage. | - Winter Orb has +2 maximum stages. | - Damage penetrates 10% of enemies’ elemental resistances if you haven’t killed recently. |
Full Build Attribute Requirements
| Strength 130 |
Dexterity 155 |
Intelligence 159 |
| - Easy to acquire, you already grab 114 on your passive tree. | - Easy to acquire, you already grab 144 on your passive tree. | - Super easy to acquire, just with your Passive Tree. |
GEMS
- Start forming a 4L with Infused Channeling, Greater Multiple Projectiles and Controlled Destruction.
- If 5L add Hypothermia
- If 6L add Cold to Fire
- Remember the special Helmet with "Socketed Gems supported by Hypothermia"? It is for this Vaal Blade Vortex setup, activate when fighting a boss and it will deal a lot of damage.
- These 3 Heralds will grant not only a big boost to your Damage and Clear Speed but also some Sweet Explosions and a huge amount of Elemental Penetration.
- CWDT + Steelskin gives you a shield that absorbs Damage when you take a certain amount of Damage (Keep CWDT at Lv 11 and Steelskin at Lv 16).
- Enfeeble is a curse that increases survivability. It will also be autocasted by CWDT.
- Lightning Golem grants extra cast speed.
- Flame Dash is a good movement skill.
- Clarity grants extra mana regeneration.
- Vaal Righteous Fire grants more spell damage for a certain amount of time, use it on bosses.
- Vaal Haste is a temporary aura that grants a huge cast speed buff. Use it on bosses.
- Righteous Fire is going to kill you! You have to use VAAL Righteous Fire.
SKILL TREE
JEWELS
Look for these Stats on Rare Jewels:
- Cold Damage
- Maximum Life
- Spell Damage
- Projectile Damage
- Area Damage
- Cast Speed
Abyss Jewel
I highly recommend you to use an Abyssal Jewel with “chance to gain Onslaught on kill”, it increases a lot your clear speed.
LEVELING
Tips for Easy Level (beginner friendly)
- Start using Freezing Pulse until lvl 28, then change to Winter Orb.
Leveling Setup of Links
- From lvl 1 to 12 use Freezing Pulse
- At Ivl 8 link Added Cold Damage
- Reaching level 18 add Faster Casting and Elemental Focus
- Equip a First Snow gem as soon as you have the chance, it increases a lot your clear speed. This gem is pretty cheap.
- If you can't buy one, you can change Added Cold Damage for Lesser Multiple Projectiles.
- Reaching level 28 change Freezing Pulse for Winter Orb
- Also change Added Cold Damage for Lesser Multiple Projectile, Faster Casting for Infused Channeling, and Elemental Focus for Controlled Destruction.
- Reaching level 38 change Lesser Multiple Projectiles for Greater Multiple Projectiles.
- Now you are pretty much good to go. When you get a 5 or 6L Body Armour remember the main setup.
- The main setup is: Winter Orb – Infused Channeling – Greater Multiple Projectiles – Controlled Destruction – Hypothermia – Cold to Fire.
Auras
- Start using your Heralds at level 16.
- If you have problems with mana at low levels Atziri’s Foible or Mana Flasks are the answer.
- You can also stop using Herald of Thunder for a while.
- As soon as you want to stop using Atziri’s Foible you can activate Clarity.
- If you still have mana problems at higher levels, look for Mana Regeneration in your rare Rings and/or Amulet.
Recommended Items
Atziri's Foible
- You can use it at lv 16
- +100 Mana
- Up to 130% Mana Regeneration.
- Up to 24% increased maximum mana.
- Awesome for Leveling without worrying about mana.
Lochtonial Caress
- You can use it at lv 1
- Pretty Cheap
- High amount of Cast Speed
- Awesome for Leveling
Wanderlust
- Can be used at lv 3
- Mostly because of the 20% increased movement speed that always helps a lot the leveling process. (Seven-League Step is way better but too expensive)
- Frozen immunity is awesome as well
Tabula Rasa
- Can be used at lv 1
- The ultimate leveling equipment, it provides a 6L Body armour starting on level 1
- It helps a lot your leveling process but it's not mandatory at all. It's not that cheap either costing around 20 Chaos.
Goldrim
- You can use it at lv 1
- Pretty Cheap
- Up to 40% to all Elemental Resistances
- If you are having problems with survivability, a Goldrimn might be the answer.
String of Servitude
- You can use it at lv1
- Pretty Cheap
- You can get one with up to +48% to all Elemental Resistances
- Another way to get a lot of Elemental Resistances
Asenath's Mark
- You can use it at lv 8
- Pretty Cheap
- High amount of Cast Speed
- Awesome for Leveling
Lifesprig
- You can use it at lv 1
- Pretty Cheap
- Spell Damage
- Cast Speed
- Use two of them
- Awesome for Leveling
Axiom Perpetuum
- You can use it at lv 10
- Pretty Cheap
- Elemental Damage
- Cast Speed
- Huge amount of Critical Chance
- Use two of them
- Awesome for Leveling
Shade of Solaris
- You can use it at lv 30
- It grants a huge amount of damage, but it's not cheap.
- If you don't have currency to buy it, look for a Dark Seer.
The Dark Seer
- Dark Seer can be used at level 32.
- It grants up to 72% increased damage and chance to blind your enemies.
- It’s super cheap and a great alternative to Shade of Solaris.
Singularity
- If you reach level 62 and still don't have currency to buy your Shade of Solaris you can equip Singularity while farming.
That’s all about this build. You can come to MmoGah to buy cheap and safe PoE Blight Currency like Exalted Orb. You can also try our PoE Trade service to sell or buy PoE Goods on it. We will never let you down!
