Glacial Cascade - Calling the Hivemind to think-tank it's usage

^hatred might be viable if specced solely in "spell damage" nodes, since it will increase both the physical portion and the cold portion of the spell, in turn double buffing the increase from hatred.

Not sure on that do, just a thought (but realistically a 60% reservation aura should give a huge benefit, so this should have to be tested)

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Boem wrote:

^hatred might be viable if specced solely in "spell damage" nodes, since it will increase both the physical portion and the cold portion of the spell, in turn double buffing the increase from hatred.

Not sure on that do, just a thought (but realistically a 60% reservation aura should give a huge benefit, so this should have to be tested)

Once I get my Glacial Cascade gem to 17 I will test out how much dps a lvl 20 hatred gives vs a lvl 20 haste.

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Once I get my Glacial Cascade gem to 17 I will test out how much dps a lvl 20 hatred gives vs a lvl 20 haste.

Cool, thx bro make sure to post the results im checking up on this thread (playing with GC on invasion on a new toon, been fun leveling with it, solid dps imo atm)

But for hatred to be at max potential, it should be utilized by a spec using % spell damage increase both increasing the physical portion of the attack (more hatred buff) and then in turn actively buffing both the cold and hatred cold portion.

Otherwise i cant really see hatred being effective for a build of this type.(most likely i will test this myself once i can :D)

Btw i was wondering about shockstacks + concentrated effect. Since GC hits the same target multiple time, it would in theory be posible to get a triple shockstack on the same target increasing the potential dps by 90%(i think its 30% per stack?) on the final hit. Very interesting skill for stuff like that imo :).

Just an update, I ran into a rare titty bitch with corrupting blood and she consistently gave me 3 stacks per cast (which means I was hitting her 3 times), it also seems like the unique whipper in lunaris also gets hit 3 times. This is with conc effect and 20/20 AOE. Humanoid sized mobs definitely only get hit twice but anything even slightly bigger gets hit 3 times.

I can't tell if Kole and Piety are getting hit 3 times or 4 times, which is a rather important thing to know (someone earlier in the thread did the math that GC would be more dps than FP when it hits 4 times).

I will say that despite the small area of effect size of GC it is still less of a hassle than both stormcall and searing bond (both skills this character had previously used).