Hypothermia or Elemental Focus for Volatile death, detonate dead, spellslinger?

At the moment I'm running:
VD + DD + spellslinger + spell cascade + inspiration support + hypothermia

Since I should have enough mana reserved now to switch hypothermia to elemental focus. 120% versus 130% mana multiplier.

Would it still be better to run hypothermia or would elemental focus give me more damage? What if I use awakened elemental focus?

Thanks in advance for any answer.

Um... I am missing the bit where you use Hypothermia in order to chill an enemy with fire spells.

Nevertheless, Hypothermia serves two main purposes:

> Giving a very big More multiplier, for a Green Socket, for generic damage

> Make easier to freeze low-to-mid enemies and bosses, provided you go for a flurry of average-to-little cold damage hits

In your case, it will also help you place a lower-than-average Ignition on an enemy. The main flaw of Hypothermia is that it won't boost your first hit, so it won't help oneshotters. Given that you use spellslinger, however, I don't think you just want to kill an enemy with one single hit, so it's ok.

Can I, instead of Elemental Focus (which would be a good boost on elemental damage since Ignition via DD or VD do not gen any significant bonus), suggest Combustion? It comes with a 120% mana Multiplier, will only raise your Fire damage by 30% More but will lower enemies' fire resistance by 10% if they get ignited by your hits. This reduction goes on top of resistance lowering via Exposure and Flammability/EleWeakness

@maxtrux: Corpse pact makes the enemies chilled when I cast desecrate close to them, hypothermia gives 10% chance for supported skills to freeze them.

Combustion is already on wave of conviction so lowering the fire res of mobs is already taken care of.

I also have a flammability ring so that is taken care of as well.

I'm just thinking that Elemental Focus would give me more damage to VD and DD compared to hypothermia, if the change in mana muliplier doesn't push me ove 100% mana reserved.