Frostbolt

Another complete useless cold spell.
Thanks GGG, You are slowly destroying my fun in the game since I am always cold spell player.
1st IceSpear was completely destroyed, not Frostbolt is completely useless.

Thanks ! Great ADD to the cold skills, which is practically NONE playable currently.

Loving this new Skill Gem! It is indeed awesome with CoC...and I'm only at 17/20...which the high damage at lv 20 it is going to get even better.

I've been wondering about how high AOE could affect it...but that might be too much for one build.

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BlazeSTX wrote:

Another complete useless cold spell.
Thanks GGG, You are slowly destroying my fun in the game since I am always cold spell player.
1st IceSpear was completely destroyed, not Frostbolt is completely useless.

Thanks ! Great ADD to the cold skills, which is practically NONE playable currently.

Frostbolt is the highest base damage spell in the game. What exactly sucks about it?

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Kadajko wrote:

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BlazeSTX wrote:

Another complete useless cold spell.
Thanks GGG, You are slowly destroying my fun in the game since I am always cold spell player.
1st IceSpear was completely destroyed, not Frostbolt is completely useless.

Thanks ! Great ADD to the cold skills, which is practically NONE playable currently.

Frostbolt is the highest base damage spell in the game. What exactly sucks about it?

That travel roughly 2 screens...

I like to pretend I'm playing Bubble Bobble, sending my volley of death bubbles to crash upon mine enemies.

I've already posted the things I like about the skill. Things I would change are to make it slightly bigger, like the version used by the water ball mobs. Theirs is fancy, not unlike Peity's ball lightning but that is a minor annoyance.

Too slow. That's my general impression.

It is faster to kill stuff with other cold spells even if they do less damage just because there is less waiting time.

My character seemed to move faster than Frostbolt even after leaving act 1 town (level 1, no gear that affects movement speed). It is faster to go in melee range and cast it in face than cast it and wait for it to travel to target.

As for Vortex interaction - the skill is so slow that my character proven to be better at delivery of Vortexes than this skill.

While Essence Drain and Contagion skill combo greatly increases efficiency of both skills the Frostbolt and Vortex skill combo doesn't seem to interact that well. I will at best not lose damage if I time skills well (if I manage to make both skills to hit monster as they both took time to cast)


Visual feedback:

The appearance of the skill doesn't justify the name "Frostbolt". it looks like a fog bubble. Frost is made of ice crystals. Hearing bolt I would also expect to hear some sort of solid projectile. Putting everything together it would make more sense if it was some sort of sharp ice crystal that pierces through monsters. I like the sparkling trail though.

Audio feedback:

It sounds more like liquid water than solid water (frost) or water vapor (what it looks like).
First example I can think of - Dragon Age: Inquisition had nice ice sounds (like on ice wall or when cold staff projectiles hit something), take a look. Or get some icicles, throw it against stuff, listen.



Perhaps it could be named "Cold Bubble". This might reflect the appearance and usefulness.
Or.. I wonder if you halved the damage, halved the cast time, tripled the projectile speed, made it small, sharp ice crystal that leaves trail of current sparkly effect - would it become more useful for Vortex combo while remaining good on its own and look more epic.

Cut damage in half u mad?

Though the interactions with it are limited and kind of lame in some respects, I got some use out of them in pvp in Standard.

I have to say, this could show some potential in combining other cold skills to augment it, maybe it could work with Ice Spear to bring us Frozen Orb like in D2 or something.

1-40 with frostbolt and it is awesome. Screw freezing pulse. No idea what people complaining about. Can't wait to hook it up with chain and lots of crit.