Wintertide brand and Spell echo?

Focus on +1 cold skill gems, then dot multi, then spell damage and cast speed.
I'm sure u'll find something.

Do you know what is the Chill effect from Wintertide? Debating if I should get some +chill aliment or it's useless?

Can boss be slowed/chilled much? I can barely tell if they are slowed.

I found out that Chill effect starts with 10% action speed reduction? So a 30% chill aliment is only 13% action speed reduction? That's not much.

yeah Wintertide Brand applies the lowest possible chill, which is 10% action speed reduction.
So increased chill effect only multiplies from those 10% base, like u said 30% increased chill effect is 3% slower action speed.

As far as I know that is for every mob, even Bosses.

I'd say, it's a nice defensive stat, but I wouldn't focus on it. If u can get increased chill effect cheap, take it... but don't go out of ur way just bcz of it.
I'm going with like 20-50% chill effect, combining it with temporal chains and maybe a 15% hinder effect. That should make monsters really slow :D

U can see the chill under the monsters HP bar on the top of the screen btw.

On a side note, Spell cluster jewel with block spell is stupidly expensive and rare. :( I wanted 10% spell block.

Now I'll buy the cheap Cold cluster

One more question about the explosion part of Wintertide.

Is the explosion based on how much damage it had done or how much damage the target has taken?

Reason is if I have Brand Loyalty that increases overall damage, is the explosion based on that or only based on how many stacks of Wintertide I have?

I hope I am making sense here. I am debating which notables to take.

I guess the same question for target suffering from cold exposure. Does the explosion do more after the exposure debuff?

the "explosion" u're talking about doesn't do any damage at all.

It just spreads the secondary dot debuff to surrounding enemies. That dot deals as much damage as ur brand stacks had previously.

Oh I see.

One more question! lol

What do you think of Remarkable notable for Brand? 8% casting speed with brand skill. This improves Wintertide frequency as well right?

Which two notables would you take from Brand cluster jewel?

mh, I don't like cluster jewels, but if I'd have to choose. (the notes are good)

probably Remarkable + Brand Loyalty for DPS or Remarkable + Chip Away/Grand Design for clear speed.

Yeah the cast speed increases the activation frequency.

How come you don't like the notables? It seems to be an easy way to improve Wintertide damage? Do you mostly take +spell damage? I don't see many Damage Over Time on the tree. Most of them are on the top right hand corner. Very far for Scion unless I jump from Shadow but I don't like Shadow's starting passives as I am not energy shield based.

Ah I don't dislike the notables, like I wrote.

It's more the acquisition of said jewels that I got to hate over time, but that's an SSF issue :)

Also I tried to swap in some clusters into my current build and even with perfect clusters it wasn't really worth the effort. I got like 10% more damage, but lost a bit of survivability... and getting perfect clusters isn't easy as well.

U have to decide for ur build if it's worth or not... maybe it's better for life builds.