[2.0 updated] Shmizz's hardcore perma-freeze guide

Shmizz can u post items?

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NambrVan wrote:

Shmizz can u post items?

No I can't. All the tesing I did was in the beta which was wiped. My character and gear no longer exist. I can make an outline of what you want on each piece of gear, but there are no real required stats on any one piece of gear all you need is high life, energy shield, and resists on every possible piece. Gems are also much more lax in this version, you just need to set up your freeze pulse in your staff then cram everything else in wherever you have room. There should be plenty of open sockets for whatever you want in the end game.

How hard where the nerfs for ice spear? Caus eI haven't heard of this.

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weirdo8977 wrote:

How hard where the nerfs for ice spear? Caus eI haven't heard of this.

reduced the damage effectiveness, no longer shotguns with GMP/LMP. I'm not sure if the base damage on the spell was nerfed or not, but the top end on a level 20 ice spear is about 2/3rds of what it is on freeze pulse so it does strictly less damage.

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Shmizz wrote:

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weirdo8977 wrote:

How hard where the nerfs for ice spear? Caus eI haven't heard of this.

reduced the damage effectiveness, no longer shotguns with GMP/LMP. I'm not sure if the base damage on the spell was nerfed or not, but the top end on a level 20 ice spear is about 2/3rds of what it is on freeze pulse so it does strictly less damage.

but doesn't FP also no longer shotgun? it just seems to me that they buffed FP and removed shotgunning from the game.

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weirdo8977 wrote:

but doesn't FP also no longer shotgun? it just seems to me that they buffed FP and removed shotgunning from the game.

along with a nerf to ice spear's damage effectiveness yes. The big problem is that ice spear still requires GMP and pierce to function and with the removal of shotgunning your single target dps is a little more than 20% of what it used to be. Freeze pulse requires neither pierce nor gmp since you can run it on a totem with rain of splinters.

Oh an another major thing I was forgetting was the effective removal of EB for ice spear. It is much to expensive to consider investing into EB for ice spear so you are forced to spend several extra points on mana nodes to be able to support the hefty mana cost.

can you add any video?

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bushlick wrote:

can you add any video?

There is a video of me clearing a map, however it's not a very high level map simply because in beta map drop rates were really low and I never got lucky with drops. I will be rerolling this character sometime relatively soon but I don't currently have a version of this build operational on any of my characters to add more video of higher tier content.

Ice spear is not working. Yes u will insta freeze white, magic and rare mobs without problems but u will not freeze (not talking about perma freeze Im talking about freeze) bosses. To have little mana problems u need very good gear. Imo, pure elem dmg for 2.0 is bad. In cruel freezing bosses is easy, in merc couldn't freeze dominus and died from new piety (didnt make single freeze to her). So main problem here can be only flat cold dmg. With gmp dps is 10.5k without powers, with cold pen 13.3k. Crit chance 50%, multi round 600%. If cold dmg is bigger freezing is possible. How to get more cold dmg?

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NambrVan wrote:

Ice spear is not working. Yes u will insta freeze white, magic and rare mobs without problems but u will not freeze (not talking about perma freeze Im talking about freeze) bosses. To have little mana problems u need very good gear. Imo, pure elem dmg for 2.0 is bad. In cruel freezing bosses is easy, in merc couldn't freeze dominus and died from new piety (didnt make single freeze to her). So main problem here can be only flat cold dmg. With gmp dps is 10.5k without powers, with cold pen 13.3k. Crit chance 50%, multi round 600%. If cold dmg is bigger freezing is possible. How to get more cold dmg?

In 2.0 they drastically increased the % of a monsters life total you need to do in order to get a freeze effect. If you do not exceed the minimum threshold you cannot freeze at all (except through proliferation). There are a couple ways to increase your flat cold damage enough to freeze bosses but all of them are very expensive currency/gear wise. You can get a level 21 gem and a +3 cold staff to scale the base damage significantly. You can change the build to low life and pick up pain attunement which would also allow you to run one or two more auras but would also be highly expensive gear wise. You can also stack a huge amount of crit and more importantly crit multiplier on your gear. All three options are extremely expensive so I chose to ignore them as possibilities for this build because it's aimed at new players and or players starting in a fresh new league.