Glacial Hammer

Any word on whether this skill will be seeing a buff? Hardly anyone seems to use it... just doesn't compare in damage to other skills such as heavy strike.

With the 3 common supports HS does about 20% more damage, but if you add in weapon elemental damage then GH does more. Damage-wise I think it's fine, I'd rather see other aspects of it buffed.

Its freeze is sometimes very useful, but since you can keep things stunned with the big single-target attacks in any case it's not all that. I'd like to see a small AoE freeze or ground ice or something. jackkbro's ice-shard on monster death idea is cool.

Although I haven't played the game that much yet (just at a friend), I am thinking about what kind of character I would like to make in open beta. While doing so I was looking for a melee skill that would convert physical damage to cold damage for a dual-sword wielding ranger. Unfortunately, I came to the discovery that this skill only works with maces and staffs. Flavor-wise this makes a lot of sense, but it is too limiting. Especially because the support passives for these weapons are very rare and localized. Furthermore, the other damage-type converting melee skills, lightning strike and Infernal blow, have almost no weapon restrictions. I would like to see this skill usable with all melee weapon types. The name would require a change maybe but that shouldn't be to problematic; Glacial Strike.

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Baelrog wrote:

-a desire for cold damage in melee-

Hatred aura can answer your needs partially till a new cold melee skill is created in future.

Is Glacial Hammer affected by both Cast Speed and Attack speed?

is this true please ? i just saw this on a chat, and wanted to know. thanks

"Glacial hammer makes you get reduced loot , everytime a mob is frozen when killed it doesnt drop loots"

think thats due to the crabs, killing a shell counts for exp but not loot then spawns a shooter. if shattered, still gives exp and doesn't spawn a shooter, however don't know if they let drops happen on that point now (still unsure). my memory isn't that good and people assume this is what happens, so...