Chill/freeze question

How does chill interact with freeze?


A) If an enemy is frozen by a chunk of cold damage, it will never be chilled by that same cold damage unless you have the Breath of Rime passive.

or

B) If an enemy is frozen by a chunk of cold damage, it will be frozen and chilled at the same time, both timers starting simultaneously. Then when it unfreezes, if the chill hasn't timed out, the enemy will be in a chilled state.



If A, then doesn't that kinda suck if you have lots of +% chill duration but little/no +% freeze duration?


Thanks!

its B

The duration of chill is slightly higher than the duration of freeze

if unmodified, by gear or passives, the duration of chill after an enemy was frozen will be a maximum of (almost)1.3 seconds

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VictorDoom wrote:

its B

The duration of chill is slightly higher than the duration of freeze

if unmodified, by gear or passives, the duration of chill after an enemy was frozen will be a maximum of (almost)1.3 seconds

Awesome, thanks. That's very encouraging as I'm critting a lot with Ice Spear and have +% freeze chance from Frostbite, but I also have some +% chill duration from the tree, good to know it's being put to use.

As long as you have Breath of Rime the chill status will be there after the freeze though, but you should get chill increase passives anyway, otherwise its not a very useful notable

You do need a lot of damage for it to be noticeable

to get the max duration you need to remove a third of the enemy life bar with just cold damage.