Teaser Screenshot: Glacial Cascade

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lord_joshi wrote:

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qwertazx wrote:

another skill thats gonna make my pc cry

Water cooling system?

Seems more like it makes you cry before you know it's exact mechanics and it's impact on your PC. Be patient maybe until it is here and try it first before crying?

Second that :)

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Sexcalibure wrote:

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Sneakypaw wrote:

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Sexcalibure wrote:

Instead of making something FrostWall like

can you make Forst wall something?


its not freaking hard

-give frost wall life
-make it reflect damage

voila

This type of thoughtless balancing is exactly what people accuse GGG of, all the time.

Thoughtless? Because alpha testing wouldnt be done to balance it? Because it could be as Unbalanced as GGG's Nice balanced skills like Dishcarge,searing bond, flameblast

There is as much thought in your suggestion as when I would reach way up my ass and pull something like this:
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it's not freaking hard

-make the duration longer
-Enemies in x radius around the wall get chilled and take damage over time as cold damage.

voila
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That the values need to be balanced is obvious.
But what makes you think giving the wall life and making it reflect damage would give the skill new life? Or can actually be made balanced without people shouting again "this is a garbage skill"

Is that skill linked to rmb or E. Whats the other one?

My experiences with frost wall have all been bad.

It fails to block projectiles, both mine and enemies. It lasts a laughably short time, and I don't want to devote resources to making it infinitesimally longer since:

Enemies walk right around it, or if placed in a bottleneck it means nothing as I could have cast anything else and did some damage during that half second it stopped them.

Casting it on top of a mob has a good chance of knocking it towards me and doing small damage anyways.

Arctic Breath should be an ice version of fireball with a chill trail right? Yet no one uses it...because it is nowhere close to fireball. Its simply an inferior ice spear.

This new skill looks great, I'm already a fan of Glacial Hammer and Ice Shot so this will work nicely assuming it does sufficient damage.

I deleted all my characters and made a new witch for Ambush, and I've been using Ice Spear, Flameblast, Ice Nova, Cold Snap, and Vaal Ice Nova to great effect. Freeze the mobs, charge the boom, profit.

I would use all ice spells but since most mobs resist ice/all elements and flameblast is irresistible due to how OP it is I pretty much need it.

I was really looking forward to Ball Lightning as my non ice back up spell, but it still hasn't arrived.

How this new skill will fit in my rotation remains to be seen. If it has enough range then maybe replace Ice Spear.

I've only gotten to maps on my Ranger so far. I used Ice shot and Poison Arrow pretty much exclusively. Good synergy.

I've been trying to find a witch build I like since day one though. Tried fire, ice, lightning, summoning all. I don't use wands, made a dual wander once..it was boring.

Ice spells! daaamn give me give me give me

O.O

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tonytaxi666 wrote:

Is that skill linked to rmb or E. Whats the other one?

the skill bound to E is freeze mine

yay new cold skill

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TRIPL3try wrote:

Ice Nova needs a buff! I want to make a build for it, but the damage can't compete with other skills.

have not skilled into area damage but crit chance and crit scaling passives and this setup did work nicely until docks mercyless, some added lightning or chaos damage gem and culling strike and it's perfect aoe with rarity culling for maps as well.

sure, you need some distracion like totems or minions or you do just freeze enemy groups using ice spear with proliferated damage support.

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CharanJaydemyr wrote:

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Kaskar wrote:

Another laggy fps-dropping skill.

Go for Backstab and Echo plz!

Backstab....with desync as bad as it is?


Lol! Right.

What is this Backstab skill people are talking about. What kind of skill is it ?