Ice Ice Baby! - Cold Snap (HC Viable)

Working on the video, but you should remember this can happen :D

Videos uploading.

Made 2:
DPS (Solo) mode vs. Rogue Exile with Cold Snap (Temple Map with mods). Poor kiwi!
Proliferation (Party) mode vs. Double Boss / Pack Size Colonade.

Will do some other vids later, including 78s with crazy mods, if I find a party with balls ;).

Thanks for the great guide - so wished I'd found this earlier - I'm level 65 now & still having a few problems with big mobs but watching your vids has inspired me to keep persevering (just wish more of my friends were playing Ambush so I can progress faster)

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kareNZa wrote:

Thanks for the great guide - so wished I'd found this earlier - I'm level 65 now & still having a few problems with big mobs but watching your vids has inspired me to keep persevering (just wish more of my friends were playing Ambush so I can progress faster)

Glad you like it. Be sure to post your progress and gear, later on.

It gets better once your gems level up, like any other caster. I'd say it really hit the stride around level 75 for me (at least for high-end maps).

So, looks like for solo you can use Glacial Cascade indeed.

GC / Conc. Effect / Faster Casting / Cold Penetration / Life Leech should work ok with your colors, possibly adding Added Cold / Added Chaos later.

Need to get the gem and level it to truly test it out.

Quick question. Why do you use Doedre's Elixir?

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DustyLenz wrote:

Quick question. Why do you use Doedre's Elixir?

Because with Desync still around, I sometimes miss (especially when I aim at an area rather than a target). And when I do and run out of Charges, that gives me another shot to regain my stride.

Hey, we talked a fair bit in my Shadow thread, about how your Cold Snap build works with Glacial Cascade.

If I'm doing this, I want to go "full Elsa". So, do you think this could work for Scion as well?

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I did take some liberties there. For example I took Path of the Warrior, which you skipped, as the extra physical damage is no longer wasted with GC, making it an overall decent node. There might be other nodes that work better now with GC, so again I'm looking forward to your reply.

By the way, Resolute Technique over criticals is an interesting choice. I'd suggested that in the GC hivemind thread, but wasn't greated with a particularly warm welcome. Seeing your build I still think its the solution to making this work, at least without ridiculous gear and passive point expenditure.

Well, since spells can't miss, Resolute Tech is normally useless. The only reason I use it is so I *always* get a Power Charge to fuel Cold Snap when I use it (or any other skill).

Cold Snap / Cold Penetration / Conc. Effect / Proliferation works well enough for Cold Snap to work, allowing you a 5-6L for GC if you want more DPS.

As you can clearly see, Scion works, and so does Templar, but Witch is just BETTER, since you can start from both sides, and connect only through one, like I do in my build. As for Mana Regen, you should have no issues with that with decent gear and EB + Clarity + Discipline, so starting as a Scion is wasting points for mana passives you don't need (and one very bad mana regen node).

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CantripN wrote:

Well, since spells can't miss, Resolute Tech is normally useless. The only reason I use it is so I *always* get a Power Charge to fuel Cold Snap when I use it (or any other skill).

Cold Snap / Cold Penetration / Conc. Effect / Proliferation works well enough for Cold Snap to work, allowing you a 5-6L for GC if you want more DPS.

As you can clearly see, Scion works, and so does Templar, but Witch is just BETTER, since you can start from both sides, and connect only through one, like I do in my build. As for Mana Regen, you should have no issues with that with decent gear and EB + Clarity + Discipline, so starting as a Scion is wasting points for mana passives you don't need (and one very bad mana regen node).

Hmmm,.. well you could take the resist nodes down to Sentinel off course, which are really really nice, but you'll be stuck with that 10% MELEE physical node which is a complete waste. I must say that one node has bothered me immensely with many builds, probably more so than any other node on the tree. If they'd just scrap the MELEE part, it'd be fine, but as it is it blocks the road to two possibly great Scion exits for casters, wanders, archers, summoners and trappers alike. That said, you're still right that Witch is BETTER, but I'll be going for aesthetics here =P

Regarding that Power Charge, I must have looked at your build too fleetingly, and totally missed that. It's brilliant with Romira's though, especially because it also makes sure you can't LOSE charges prematurely by accidental critting.

One question though: why have you put Elemental Proliferation in you Cloak of Defiance UNLINKED? Is it simply to illustrate what a six-link could do?