Casual Path of Exile Guides: Speedy Winter Orb Elementalist [3.6] 

Subbed, this guide is really well put together, one of the best guides I have seen, it's very clean, and is simple and easy to understand, and follow. Only thing missing would be some kind of timetable in the beginning of the video. keep up the good work.

Great job Nathan! Keep it up! Proud of you!

Awesome guide buddy, the effort you put into this really shows! - Putting some text to accompany the pictures of the gems and gear would go a long way :)

I don't understand how you only have 9k subs. Great work

ive tried 3 worb builds and almost gave up until yours. so much fun and so easy to play with arthritic hands like mine bravo sir

Loved the video, BUT, the only thing I didn't like was that there WAS NO Closed Caption. 75yr old here, I need this.

I love this build. I have most recommended gear together (except im not using atziri's step) and everything is melting. I got me my first shaper kill! Im at 154/159 atlas completion, 23/40 challenges and am approaching 250 in delve. Thanks!

I love winter orb. its very powerful with middle of the road gear. I'm trying your gem setup and its pretty fun.

I usually dont like video guides. They are harder to refer back to. This guide however is great. You spend enough time talking about each segment that it's easy to find. I'm still leveling but I'm flying through the game. Appreciate the effort you put into this

This is exactly the type of guide that a beginner can handle and easily follow along. Good job!

Interesting take on the WORB, but i am not "sold" on cast speed. You can always hit less often but much harder. The gear in PoB also has some astronomical values and very expensive gear. Much much expensive than in my build for example. Non-crit is also pretty bad dps for any non-dot spells.. (my opinion) Still interesting to see alternative variation! And holy shit dude the editing and your speech are just so good. An absolute pleasure to watch and listen!

Only been playing a couple of months and this build is fun and easy to understand. A little squishy at lvl 72 but I'm still learning. Thanks so much!

Thanks for crediting me in your video! Cast speed is definitely the way to go ;)

More of these please, they are great!

Wow, this is awesome!!! Thanks, didn't realize how epic cast speed could be for WO

Great work as usual! I'm literally gonna play this build now my Wave of Conviction league starter wasn't cool like I was hoping so I relate to that opener so well. Thanks!

This video came out at a really fitting time! Well done.

Very well put together guide! I can't wait to see more videos in the future

Nate amazing video I love ur videos easy to understand for beginners they are above the rest, good job!

impressively put together build guide. very nice

So I wanted to try some extra damage on my Storm Brand Inquisitor and I tried Winter Orb. Nowadays, I mostly just run about with Winter Orb on a 4L because it's enough for tier 5 maps (where I am) and rarely need to brand anything but bosses .. I can only imagine the damage output of this thing with a proper build. Great guide Nathan!! Thanks!

Thank you for the guide! A quick & tiny bit of feedback: As a brand new PoE player (just joined on PS4), I found myself wishing you had placed names on the items you showed pictures for, like when you showed the gems and gear and such. You did mention the names on the video of course, but I kinda was taking screenshots for quick reference during your passives walkthrough which will be very helpful and I can't take screenshots of several unnamed gems.. I bet PoE veterans can simply tell what a gem is by simply looking at the picture lol.. I'm such a scrub.. I know! Loved your guide, please don't read into feedback as a complaint, you broke things down for me the way I like it!! Edit: Liked & subbed of course!

I had so little time to play PoE this league so I´m 90 worb. I followed some guide, but your looks much cooler. With cast speed it looks so smooth. Thanks for the video

Nice guide dude! The build I’m using is very similar and your tips gave me some good ideas thanks for the awesome content!

Hey Nathan - I went for Gooby's build based on your recommendation. I'm finding some of the gear reqs to break my balls. This would have been a pretty tidy mid way point, but i feel like im not too far into to turn back. I like your take on it I think, and would def be cheaper to run, and looks to be performing quite highly at end game!

Its absurd how this build is satisfying to see ,at least before play with it xD

Great build dude keep up the work love your guides

More of these kind of guides plz

Nathan when you show the gems on the screen it would be really nice if you also had their name displayed as well

going to try this , thanks for the guide !

You deserve way more subs, you're awesome dude.

With the change of the skill tree and infused channeling I think we got a buff for Winter Orb. Also did a build guide about this in both 3.5 and 3.6, but im not doing it quite the same way. Tryied cold to fire under optimal conditions in pob and you are probobly better of using an other gem. Also conc effect is going to make the overlapping of dmg much less likely to happen, yes it will pump up your pob numbers but in reality its not. Would love some feedback:) Thanks for the video.

Greetings! I startet a Elementalist. I was going for g00fy_goobers build. I was level 52 and saw your video and respecct from g00fys build into yours. And I'm loving it! It is insanly fast! I'm really excited to get this to endgame! Keep up your great work! Subed and liked already ;-) Have a good one!

Definitely a build I'll have to give a try, once the PS4 version launches tomorrow. This guide is quite helpful, very much appreciated. Liked and subbed. I what beginner weapons and armor do you recommend to begin with when first starting?

I had little faith in that build when I got facerolled by T6 bosses and mobs. I said fuck it and gave it a go again, but with my items and gems. -Two wands with added cold dmg to spells + a lot of spell dmg (1 chaos each) -Shapped helmet with added cold dmg + 110 life (20 chaos) -Mark of the shaper + some elder ring boosting my damages ( 45 chaos for shaper, 15 for elder) -Shapped amulet with area dmg + radius (10 chaos) -Some gloves and boots with at least 100 life and resistances (20 chaos each) -Stygian wise with good life and resistances, jewel with life + spell dmg + cold dmg (20 chaos each) -Carcass jack 6L (4 exalted) Gems : Winter Orb - Infused Channeling - GMP - Controlled Destruction - Cold to fire - Life leech Lightning Golem - Minion resistances - Minion life CWDT - Immortal Call - Enfeeble - Increased duration Flame dash - Faster casting Herald of ash - Herald of ice - Herald of lightning - Enlighten (very optional, I like having more room to breathe with my mana) Oh boy. I went from struggling to even clear T6 maps with easy mods to killing the shaper for the first time ever. For a 5-5.5 exalted investment, this build is a blast. I am not using good items, my wands are horrible, yet I can stomp everything like they didn't even exist. Cast speed is good, but I think getting it everywhere is overkill. I felt no difference when I removed my faster casting lv20 and left the slot empty. Also, it works well with a tabula, no need for that fancy armor. That reduces the cost of the build to 1 exalted. Shaper kills for 1 exalted, count me in. Thank you man, you helped me find that build, and I like it a damn lot

As a super noob. The way you can explain builds is very helpful. After going thru a tecttonic build oni goroshi the degen has been terible. This new build is helpful

A Black Hole or Celestial effect for the Orb would be really nice. It would mesh better with some of the herald explosion effects.

Great guide

fantastic guide, thanks

Wow just before PlayStation 4 release, thank you very nice :)

I’m having a shitty league so far, I was thinking about rerolling for Winter Orb since I didn’t play it last league, I guess your video is a sign of what I must do, thanks!

Could you add time stamps in descryption for this? :) I'm new player and following this build is kinda tricky sometimes when I'm looking for something specyfic.

loving this build. at Lev 88. blitzing everything.

So you completely ignore the entire cold damage meganode to traipse across the tree for 3 dubious nodes?

Hey Nathan, thanks fror the guide! i used it to kill UE for the first time, but im really struggeling to make it tanky for a solid 100 push. Some advice on that or a follow up video would be wonderful! thanks!

Great video. Love the build. My only concern/suggestion is changing out infused channeling as 99% of the time, I wont be channeling long enough to activate the perk. I know its largely for the damage reduction as well as decent damage buff, but if I'm mobile most of the time I dont need to worry about the reduced damage and there are better gems for extra dps. Thoughts?

Is there a text version of this? I am gonna try this on PS4 but obviously we can't use the stuff that is on PC.

Awesome video, subscribed

Cool video! FYI, mbXtreme is currently building an Eternity Shroud Winter Orb build... looks pretty cool. Question, you think it's still possible to get adequate amounts of Cast Speed with Trickster start? You kinda lose out on all those witch nodes but gain some elemental damage instead. I like Trickster for all the sustain and EB MoM.

Why cold to fire, exactly? And not like other more typical stuff like Hypothermia or something? Also, why HoA as well? I see "most" builds using HoI and HoT (sometimes not even HoT) with Ice Bite on HoI and curse on hit warlords or wahtever on the HoT? What are your thoughts on that?

Thanks for recommending Faster Casting gem in the link. Checked the Pob, compare to cold pen, I only lose around 10k damage, but now my cast time to get 10 stack of wo is even faster, plus they're firing more rapidly = trigger my on hit heal more frequently. Abit suggestion here, you can try using the new unique ring that buff Herald effect (60%cold damage and 100% herald of ice effect, even more powerful than Mark of the Shaper) , so now you can use a shaper ring to get on hit heal for spell. It is even more useful than leeching against bosses. Also yes, I stop using warlord mark ring because it is not needed, and has other source of leeching from other stuffs. I can run curse on hit Enfeeble/ Temp chain instead for even more safety.

Good job 👌

You said its impossible to do elemental reflect maps but you never specified your last 2 ascendancy points or why you think that taking beacon of ruin is so incredibly crucial to the build and absolutely unswappable for paragon of calamity which would give you immunity to elemental reflect ? And even leech so you could do without the fire leech on ring ?

This is amazing. Would this still work for Legion? I was thinking of doing this one as a league starter with a few tweeks

Im using Controlled Destruction instead of Faster Casting and my DPS is so much higher. WOrb casts fast enough as it is. Can I ask why you use it ? You know more than me so im wondering what perks Faster Casting is doing that im not seeing.

Great guide man. Fastest I've ever leveled any character by far. What piece of gear should I drop the first chunk of currency on? Should I grab the inpulsa's and try to 6L it or get the ammy and the other rare gear first?

How do you have all three herald buffs on and they are not in the skill slot bar?

Hey Nathan, Great video, I just switched to this build and it feels way smoother than the way I had it set up before. I have a question though. I'm at the point where I can buy one or more of the more expensive uniques. Would you recommend Grabbing an Inpulsa's first or the combo or Solstice Vigil and Dying sun? I have enough currency to do one or the other and I don't know what the better option would be. Currently running a tabula rasa. Also, if I could only 5-link the Inpulsa's, which of the support gems for WO is least important? Thanks

Please suggest MF gear ? I am not sure if build can be run by bisco's, sadima's, goldwyrm, thief"s torment or pariah's....

Hey, how exactly did u craft your wands? abberanth+aetheric+prismatic? Great job btw, smoothest leveling/early mapping expierience i ever had!

How can you make your winter orb stay so long? It's twice as long as it used to be.

So I heard your argument on Faster Casting and can see how that would be beneficial. Why cold to fire over something like Hypothermia? I figured Hypothermia is one of the best damage supports for WO. I thought it applied to the first hit so mobs don't have to be chilled first to gain the damage? Also freezing. I assume you use CTF for the benefit to conversion to chaos and herald of ash so I don't really know what is best but Hypothermia just seems so good

Looks fun, but as a POE beginner who plays rather casually I'm just not getting it. What gear am I supposed to put all that gems in? Whereever most of the showed gems fit at once? The leveling process is rather tedious when your setup just doesn't let you use the stuff the guides are talking about. Let's say, what's the minimum gear to use winter orb at level 28 without it being a pain in the butt? Or is everything in poe just about paining through to endgame? A build requiring tabula rasa isn't really beginner friendly. O.o

in the passive tree make sure not to take Heartseeker, because Elemental Overload cancels its effect

Hey, Im always indecisive when it comes to the 6-link Winterorb setup: I'm currently following Ghazzys guide, as CI occultist: Winterorb - Controlled Destruction - Conc Effect - Lesser MP - Added Cold Dmg - Inc Duration What could/should I change? Also I heard that with GMP + Dying Sun the projectiles become too many against bosses which will cause quite a few to miss and fly nowhere, is that true? Great Guide btw! Keep it up man!

I picked up Winter Orb for the first time this league and it is crazy strong.. I did my first shaper kill last night, Even Deathless! :) And from my experience so far ( level 95 ), You don't need a singel target setup at all?

. My first build. It is still avaible in 3.9 after past nerfs? For endgame? I hate how slow and short duration WO have now

What effect is making those cool space looking explosions?

I dont get it, what buttons do you have to press?

Elementalist only offers dps which winter orb already has. Trickster and occultist are both less dps but much much more survivability (trickster is also faster moves peed cast speed and free frenzy and power charges on bosses which you can't do with elementalist) Ascendant isn't really an option with slayer ascendancy nerf.

If I can squeeze a Pyre ring into this would it be beneficial enough to justify the ring slot? I figure it'd be great for Herald of Ash / non-chaos as extra chaos , but enough to justify idk.

First time playing Path of Exile, already trying this but im still lvl 30 :( on first assignment from Act 3. Did not even get winter orb yet, but bought all other gems i could afford from this build so far.

Tried angry roleplayer's Worb buildguide that prob has more endgame dps (dont know yet, but it was critbased and 1mil dps on PoB) but it felt very clunky and slow for mid game, didnt have duration nodes so had to stop all the time, then respecced to this one and its sooooo much faster at least in mid game with mediocre gear. thanks for this!

hmm why go for herald of thunder besides the flashy effects?, i checked on PoB and you only get 1k dps out of it, you could drop it and ease up on the mana cost reduction rings but i guess the lightning bolts will help with clearspeed, also why go the pendulum route 1st over conflux is it to go triple herald asap and clear as fast as possible?

Hey man nice guide, can you take a look at my pob and tell me what i should work on next? I don't deal as much damage as i suppose i would deal

​@Nathan Walker New player here. Great guide! I didnt understand why your build uses the passive Blood Drinker? Specifcally how does the 0.4% of Attack Damage Leeched as Life benefit the build? Im sure Im missing something and hopefully I can learn something! Thanks!

Just started POE. Loving it so far. Just one question, do you duel wield wands because of the duel wield passive in the skill tree?

The tree you show in the video is different than the tree in PoB...I assume you meant to go don to Phase Acrobatics, but the PoB doesn't show that.

Hi Nathan Walker and all the pros.. Can you please explain to a POE newbie why you would use cold to fire support gem? Would hypothermia be better?

How can you run all 3 heralds + aspect of spider? Heralds reserve 19% with ascendancy and aspect of spider reserve 45% -> 19*3+45=102%

I think the Occultist CI Crit version beats this build in every category but cost(unless you use the Lightning chest) and skill duration.

I can't activate herald of ice, herald of thunder, herald of ash and temporal chains same time what should I do Im just new player can anyone help me pls ? and thank you

If i want to run with Cerberus+Shield, what parts of my skill tree shall i change?

I love aesthetics of winter orb, but I also love spell totems, would it be very different from many spell totems builds?

Awesome guide! Could you touch a bit on why you run cold to fire? Beeb following random people on poe.ninja and most run hypothermia. Running a 5l inpulsa for the time being, what would you recommend as the 5 to prioritize? Thanks, will try switching some things up when I get home

I've seen a lot of people use cold to fire in this build and i don't understand why, isn't it better to focus on 1 elemental damage type and get penetration for it?

Which gems makes you not "charge" the winter orb everytime?

Great build , I was lucky to drop tabula rasa and I'm owning lol . What God's I should chose at pantheon?

Why not ll? I think it will increase solo target and surv.

What items would you recommend to get first from the recommended list? dying sun, inpulsa, or solstice?

I m using a shaper glove with built in Faster Casting and Slower projectiles, no wonder i felt the ice projectiles shooting half slower than yours/other people's Winter Orb. I m a total noob in mechanics but how different does this differ to your setup with the last gem being different (concentrated effect vs Slower projectiles)?

Great video! You mention a pro is mf gear. Can you explain how to gear, what items would you replace first? Can you run full mf on t16 maps?

Where guide how farming on bottle and full build?diz

hey nathan what is your opinion on wearing 2 x legacy snakepit ring ( 10% increase cast speed, 40% cold spell, Spell fires an additional projectile. )

link to how to make that mace? I started playing on ps4. There is so much I am kind of lost

Amazing guide! Thanks a lot! I checked PoB. I wonder if it is possible to somehow fit Devoto's into this build, and get resistances from rare boots (instead of Atziri's Step) edit: I also seem to be unable to find the source of our leech O.o Anyone sees it in the PoB version?

You don't tell where you have the Heralds linked up?

Is this something beginners can do? I just started and I'm so lost ..lvl 14 witch

What do you think about shade of solaris? does it worth it?

The dps is really low with your build, even with all shaper items and shroud. The passive tree set up doesn't provide enough dps. I am looking everywhere for a elemental winter orb guide that can provide 4m shaper dps. Currently at 1.7m shaper dps at 12 stacks and 3 stacks of aspect of the spider + Flasks. But I am using some of the gems you mentioned for my build. It has helped with the exception of faster casting on the 6l. Swapped Faster casting for controlled destruction for a 100k dps increase. Pretty good entry level guide but far from end game.