❄[1.2] AoE Perma-Freeze Witch (Infinite Cold Snap, Prolif, Curses, Auras) [GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE]❄

Dear All,

I try to do a more HP & survivability passive (for high lv maps & queen)


I could have 183% max HP(too much?) and Vaal Pact, but only 54 dex could be a problem(for HOI).
Please give me more suggestion, thanks.

What with ele reflect map ?

Very fun build. I didn't have the 5 links so I tried something different.

Here's my gear at the moment - level 75



I use 3 cold snaps - 1 for applying both curses fast, 1 for AoE, and 1 for single target

I don't like switching out gems for bosses, so I like the versatility that this gives me. I also only curse after they are frozen with prolif. Too many times if I go to curse first I'll get hit by a few ranged attacks or a charger will get through. It's just safer to freeze the screen first then curse

I'm also not running AA. Since this build has very little in defenses, AA was doing nothing. Reducing 1k+ hits by 100 is practically nothing. It's what makes me think this build would be a lot better as CI instead of life based.

Vaal Ice Nova seemed redundant as the AoE damage from cold snap and HoI was enough to clear huge packs, but Vaal Lightning trap garunteed shock on bosses and rares with curse immune, so that's a great fit.

Here's what I would probably do as CI



Still not sure what to use for my 3rd aura. Clarity and HoI are a given, and I'm using haste at the moment. I was using grace for a while but it because too big of a dex requirement just for 15% increased evasion.
Here's my build now (life heavy)


Also for ele reflect, there's warlord's mark

good dps ? or decent in 5 man maps ?

What is your cold snap's DPS? I am at around 2.2K DPS only. I think it too low.

Hey,

seems to be a funny build. Can u answer me some questions?

1. Why do u use Romira's Banquet Diamond Ring AND resulute technique?

U gain power charges but never deal critical damage. Isn't it important for freezing to crit?

2. High mana pool, but low life pool and no MoM/CoD? How's the survivability?

3. How's the damage in full partys? Can u still freeze the whole screen?

4. How can u spam cold snap during the cooldown duration? So how important is cast speed, when there is the 4 seconds duration? INFINITE?

Wanna try this build

thx

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MasterOfWoooho wrote:

Hey,

seems to be a funny build. Can u answer me some questions?

1. Why do u use Romira's Banquet Diamond Ring AND resulute technique?

U gain power charges but never deal critical damage. Isn't it important for freezing to crit?

The cooldown of Cold Snap can be bypassed by expending a Power Charge.
Use Romira with Resolute Technique keystone, we always have power charge when Cold Snap in cooldown.

Instead of freezing mobs by crit, we get freeze chance from cold snap (30%) and passive tree (15%) and Q20 Add cold damage (10%) and Taryn's Shiver (8%). I have no Taryn's Shiver and Q20 gem, but the freeze chance is still good (@LV 60 in merciless act 2 now...)

And the Elemental Proliferation help us to freeze mobs a lot.

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MasterOfWoooho wrote:

2. High mana pool, but low life pool and no MoM/CoD? How's the survivability?

3. How's the damage in full partys? Can u still freeze the whole screen?

4. How can u spam cold snap during the cooldown duration? So how important is cast speed, when there is the 4 seconds duration? INFINITE?

Wanna try this build

thx

I have the same question about survivability. Maybe i will use MOM with IR & AA...still in testing and leveling.

P.S. I feel sorry about my poor english.

Level 71 in Beyond with a build based on this. Used a corpse jack for awhile but it's really not that great, i switched to Cloak of Defiance for more mitigation. I do pretty good DPS and i freeze most map bosses, i just need to get more dmg now that i have all the life i need. Just thought i would post my stuff here for other people thinking about doing this in the hardcore leagues. Also dropped curse on hit, i can cast both in the same amount of time, hit more mobs, and the benefit from curse on hit is barely anything.

Current Gear




Current Build

Made this build, but I don't think we can do Atziri with it.

I run a similar build with carcass, taryns, windscream boots with doedres ring to triple curse but it uses ice nova, it dunks cold snap in damage since you can link it with quality cold and cold pen gem and the aoe hits the entire screen. Lightning warp into a pack linked to ele prolif + reduced dur + faster casting and you freeze the whole screen thanks to herald of ice. One 5L ice nova linked with curse on hit - frostbite - ele weakness - warlords mark (works for spells now so you can drop life leech gem on main spell) triple curses everything, then oneshot everything (blues included) with the other 5L nova linked to cold pen + cold damage + spell echo + conc effect. Easily clears 78 maps and freeze lock courtyard trio and palace dom. Leveled using cold snap but the small aoe just slows clear speed, i found lighting warp with prolif to be 10x faster to get the intial freeze screen then oneshot the zipcode with a massive ice nova.