Cold Snap

If you want to use it as a primary spell, you need to have a way to quickly generate power charges to bypass the cooldown, that will make it much stronger.

This was the build I was going to try this league, but am skipping this one due to the level of austerity being too high and I can't work out how to get any decent defence at all.

Reading the past posts here, this skill has been left too weak anyway so it would of been a slow and painful playthrough...

Reviving this thread to talk about cold snap and the possible upcoming changes. Making a skill called "Cold Snap" into a damage over time skill is not a good idea and we have vortex already.

Cold snap should be a burst spell, to make it inline as a themed cold spell it should interact with frozen and chilled enemies. The current coldsnap already has a great identity just terrible numbers and impact compared to other skills in the game. The power charge mechanic with cold snap should stay and as such should allow for a powerfull spell that justifies the resource cost.

Give cold snap interesting interactions with cold effects such as:

Chill enemies in a larger aoe (than the main dmg aoe) and if enemies are already chilled deal added dmg to chilled enemies in that larger aoe. this makes it so enemies in the center (smaller original coldsnap area) take additional dmg.

Another idea is to give other effects based on if the enemy is already frozen or chilled or is shattered etc. Like bonus crit chance or multi vs frozen targets, or increased global cold dmg if cold snap shatters an enemy etc.

There are many possibillities, but throwing a DoT onto a spell called COLD SNAP is not a good idea. That is like changing Arc to an AOE skill, or giving scorching RAY a projectile. the primary thing cold snap is lacking is impact! Rather than giving cold snap a bunch of passive chill effect and freeze effect that it currently has, giving it up front, interactive and noticable effects will make it feel much better as a skill.