TbXie's Wintertide Brand Occultist Passive Skill Tree & Gem Links (PoE Settlers of Kalguur)

Path of Building – Passive Skill Tree

You can find an optimized Path of Building here. Every build I release will use the community fork of Path of Building, which is maintained and updated in a much more regular fashion than the original one. You can find PoB’s Fork, by LocalIdentity, here.

If you are not comfortable with Path of Building, you can check the link in PobbIn. However, we heavily advise you to use Path of Building for which we have a Path of Building Guide

Awakened Gems

A lot of gems nowadays in Path of Exile have Awakened versions. These version will generally be a lot more powerful than the widely available Regular versions. Therefore the should be purchased whenever you can afford them. When the gems listed down here mention Awakened Gems, you are supposed to use their regular versions until you can afford the upgrade.

For most people, leveling these Gems up takes way too much time so you’re generally offered two choices.

• You can just buy a leveled version.
• You can buy the Wild Brambleback beasts and use the Menagerie craft to upgrade Increase the level of non-Corrupted Awakened Gem by 1.

Gem Setups

Gem Links

Wintertide Brand – Main Link (6-Link)

Wintertide Brand’s base damage scales fairly hard with gem levels! Try to pick up a 21/20 as soon as possible.

1. Wintertide Brand
2. Awakened Controlled Destruction Support
3. Awakened Elemental Focus Support
4. Hypothermia Support
5. Swift Affliction Support
6. Inspiration Support

Secondary DoT with Vaal Cold Snap – In Rime Gaze

1. Vortex
2. Awakened Unbound Ailments Support
3. Bonechill Support
4. Increased Area of Effect Support

Trigger Wand Setup

As you want to get all of these buffs automatically cast, you need to socket them in your Trigger Wand. In this case, you might have to find some extra Reservation Efficiency to make sure they’re both getting triggered as triggering them is really expensive. You could manually cast, which will actually grant you a lot more damage as its more reliable.

1. Inspiration Support
2. Elemental Weakness
3. Frostbite

Auras

Because your Helmet makes you reserve more Mana, it’s hard to fit in a lot of them. You pick up Discipline and Malevolence as your two Auras. On bosses or tough opponents, you get to press Vaal Righteous Fire for an extra influx of damage on demand.

1. Discipline
2. Malevolence
3. Determination
4. Enlighten Support (3 or 4)

1. Tempest Shield
2. Clarity – Level 6 to 7

Utility

1. Flame Dash
2. Arcane Surge Support – Level 1

1. Shield Charge
2. Faster Attacks Support

1. Brand Recall

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