[1.2.0] Omjak’s guide: Maximizing Dps - MAJOR UPDATE 3. REFINED TREES:NEW PERMA FREEZE TOTEM VARIANT

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Panini_aux_olives wrote:

Imho, you can tweak the totem as you wish. I've used Ice shot, faster attack, blind for a long time. It freezes much less mobs but it's super cool against bosses. And I will just probably drop it eventually, when I finally get 3 linked red sockets on my stuff, to put a leveled CwDT, Immortal call, Increased duration setup.

Drillneck may be good, especially now that crit mul has been nerfed. It drops only in Ambush however so kind of hard to test. I'm leveling some new toons to try to get it, amongst other things ^^.

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jmbawagan wrote:

Drillneck is good. It gives my LA ~1k additional DPS (with LMP though).

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Panini_aux_olives wrote:

I now have IC. I finally successfully colored my boots and a new helm. I'm still fearing phys reflect however, it's such a hassle to lose 10% xp at this stage. That's why I tend to replace my frenzy by puncture (or even trap/puncture) on reflect maps. It gives me more time to react. I'm probably just over overreacting.
And unfortunately, no more totem. It was a really nice distraction and CC. I still use it however, on my former helm, when I want to go see Dominus.

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Omjak_777 wrote:

I was always under the impression that the "chance to freeze" is on a per target bassis. If my initial impression is true, then that means every monster hit while using this quiver has a chance to be frozen of 10%. If even one gets frozen with ele prolif, then the entire group should freeze. so with a group of ten monsters, each one has a chance to freeze of 10%; with prolif you have a chance to freeze an entire group that is equal to 1-(.9^(number of monsters)) in this case. 10 monsters the chance is essentially at 65% if each one is hit by cold damage, at 20 monsters hit with cold damage it becomes 90% (although i think its kinda hard to even hit 20 monsters in one shot, unless your using pierce). Now if you combine that with a lvl 16 frostbite and assume this is additive to the initial chance to freeze given this quiver. the new calculation is 1-(.77^(number of monsters hit with cold damage). However, the new calculation assumes that ever monster hit with cold damage is also cursed (but u get what i'm getting at). at this point for 10 monsters u get a 92% chance to freeze the entire group. And this chance to freeze is independant of ur chance to crit (but you get the idea).

I think its different from critical strikes, where an entire attack (including its aoe and individual subsequent attack animations from that one attack) will crit and all cause an ailment. I could be rong about this however, if the chance to freeze affects an entire attack like crit does. However, if this were the case why would ggg give us prolif? doesn't make sense. And another thing thats cool is that chance to freeze is independent of the monsters health.