[3.8] Frostbolt + Ice Nova Witch (Occultist)

Look for ES base helmet with life and -9% to cold res of nearby enemies and a resistance or 2.

It’s fairly easy to craft a helm like that with 2 Socket resonator and Pristine + Frigid fossil.

Carcass Jack is an ideal chest armour for this build – gives us a lot of AoE and area damage as well.

Look for rare gloves with high life, some resistance and craft “x% increased Attack and Cast Speed while Focussed” mod on them.

Look for generic rare Two-Toned boots with high life, 30% movement speed and a resistance or 2.

Really great ring that synergyzes well with our other elder ring.

Until you can afford it, any rare ring with life and resistances will do just fine.

Look for rare Elder ring with Warlord’s Mark on hit mod. Another good mods to have on this ring would be life, resistances, mana, attributes you are missing.

The priority for the amulet is to get +1 Curse corruption.

Great starting option would be Atziri’s Foible or you could get rare amulets with life and critical strike multiplier to corrupt.

If you have a lot of currency, you could buy The Halcyon with +1 Curse corruption, but that will cost you a fortune.

Look for rare Stygian Vise with life and resistances.
You could also craft increased damage mod on it using crafting bench.

Staff is really important for this build and it is going to cost a bit of currency to get going.

First we need a Shaper Eclipse staff for 100% crit implicit. Next we need to get “Socketed Gems are Supported by Level x Power Charge On Critical Strike” mod on this staff. That’s pretty easy to do with just orbs of Alteration. After you got that one mod, regal the staff and multimod it. You could also try to use Orb of Annulment before multimoding, but only do that if you have enough currency to reroll it in case power charge mod is removed.

Mods to craft on it using crafting bench after multimoding:

chance to deal double damage while focussed,
gain x% of non-chaos damage as extra chaos,
cold damage to spells,
cast speed,
spell damage.

Until you can afford to craft yourself a staff like that, Pledge of Hands is an exceptional staff to use for this build.

We use 1x Frozen Trail jewel to increase the amount of Frostbolts we cast.

Look for a mix of abyss and regular jewels.

Mods for abyss jewels:

1.) Cold damage to spells
2.) Cold damage to spells while wielding a Two-Hand weapon
3.) To maximum life
4.) To maximum energy shield
5.) Resistances / Attributes if you are lacking any

Mods for regular jewels:

1.) Critical strike multiplier
2.) Critical strike multiplier with cold skills
3.) Critical strike multiplier with elemental skills
4.) Increased maximum life / energy shield
5.) Increased maximum mana / resistances / attributes

1.) Instant recovery Divine Life flask with bleed removal
2.) Experimenter’s Quicksilver flask of adrenaline
3.) Diamond Flask with freeze removal
4.) Atziri’s Promise / Lavianga’s Spirit (if having mana problems)
5.) The Wise Oak