Glacial Hammer

Thanks alot for the answers guys.

I am runing 1h scepter/shield templar and GH is my bread and butter for single target dps. I have wrath running to get some extra lighting damage to it and shattering/frezing does wonders for champs/minibosses or anything else with high hp. I dont need aoe for it since my ice nova with AOE radious increase hits like half of the screen and got ground slam for anything that resists cold.

Does anyone else get a lag spike everytime a glacial hammer hit occurs on their screen? My framerate would be at 60 (with V-sync) steady, then down to 0 FPS for half a second, then back up to 60 after the glacial hammer animation.

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Asheren wrote:

I am runing 1h scepter/shield templar and GH is my bread and butter for single target dps. I have wrath running to get some extra lighting damage to it and shattering/frezing does wonders for champs/minibosses or anything else with high hp. I dont need aoe for it since my ice nova with AOE radious increase hits like half of the screen and got ground slam for anything that resists cold.

ice nova? so you re a caster and a melee? what level was that? that cant go well above level 50

To me GH seems very underpowered compared to the lightening damage and fire damage attacks

Does the GH freeze + shatter work on bosses ? similar to how power siphon /culling strike does?

The freeze does work on everything, but I am not positive about the %shatter.

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hubb wrote:

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.

Has anyone linked this to elemental proliferation yet?

Glacial Hammer is one of my favs since cb. It looks good and it feels good. It isnt such a high dps skill but freezing everything and smashing them to smithereens never gets old.
(Even though Avatar of fire is long gone... it was so fucking fun igniting and freezing every enemy... until you get to an elemental reflect mob ofc :D)
It seems pretty balanced and with an elemental templar with clarity it becomes your main attack.



Its one of the best skills to support with weapon elemental damage and elemental proliferation i will try out soon as well...should be awesome, especially with added fire damage on glacial hammer (and maybe some extra lightning for good messure).


but i am not really sure about something: the converted ice damage still counts as physical for the calculations with added fire damage right?

I was toying around with the idea of elemental proliferation with glacial hammer and it just doesnt look like it'll work very well. When an enemy shatters, it ends all elemental status effects on the target, thus rendering elemental proliferation useless. Unless you're doing very poor damage, you're not very likely to freeze many enemies that wont shatter immediately.

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BRavich wrote:

I was toying around with the idea of elemental proliferation with glacial hammer and it just doesnt look like it'll work very well. When an enemy shatters, it ends all elemental status effects on the target, thus rendering elemental proliferation useless. Unless you're doing very poor damage, you're not very likely to freeze many enemies that wont shatter immediately.

In 6 man groups its hard to 1 shot enemies, you will proliferatate just fine, I run cold to fire, proliferate, weapon elemental, glacial hammer, chance to ignite, when i geta six link, ill do added fire dmg, works well, over 3200 fire dmg and growing, good burns, i switch between frostbite and flammability, flame for easy groups, frostbite for the tougher ones.