level 30 atm.
Seems good?

dear diary...

Devious and I were talking about winter orb the other day, it's amazing clear speed and leveling but the playstyle is like BV and personally I don't find that very enjoyable. I've never played winter orb but I have done bv a couple times and I didn't really like how the skill felt.

Depends on the person of course just like how some love mines and totems and others cant stand them

Lol how do you not like WORB but can play slow mines and totems? Btw, you can make it last 40+ seconds if you just use vigil and reflect temp chains on yourself

Personally I feel duration is a waste on it, QoL at best or complete waste of investment at worst. That being said there is a ton of people who side with the QoL you get from duration investment.
Between spamming flame dash and flasks you stop every 10-15 seconds for .5-1 seconds to get it back to 10, seems fine personally.
It's a bit different than BV in that you're not melee at all and auto targets, it does have downsides with it's auto targetting (looking at you uber elder/uber lab) as it likes to shoot the invulnerable target so positioning is HUGE.
Feels different enough from BV that (I also got bored of BV playstyle after a short bit a few leagues back) I'm able to play it and enjoy the game.

End of the day, try it out, worst case you lost 4-6 hours of lvling imo

My build uses 30% effect temp chains on helm with wretched to reflect temp chains on myself + vigil. So not only does WORB last 40+ secs, but buffs and vaal skills lasts 30+ secs, hh/Inspired lasts over 1.5 mins. It’s a HUGE QOL imho. Flasks lasts forever too, so you can abuse soul catcher + divination + vaal clarity.

If I were to build it to kill bosses, I’d change my tree for crit. Played last league with crit + zerphis heart and I delete elders in 30-45 secs. It’s pretty insane.

Edit: I don’t waste points on the tree for duration nodes. Instead, I just grabbed phased acro

This post was edited by allience on Mar 27 2019 10:36am

We're in total agreement then basically XD duration is only good if your hard farming something like delve or super linear maps, if you're a well rounded character it's a QoL that is big but the investment into it is roughly equal

Honestly, to switch between killing bosses and chaining t16 maps with double beyond is as simple as switching out necklace and gloves and slapping in conc.

personally stay in my bossing setup 24/7 as it's not a huge speed increase for me to swap anymore (gear caught up)