

3 seconds, which at base means doing 5% of the enemy's max health in cold damage. The hit does enough damage to freeze the enemy for. The hit is a crit OR an inate 'chance to freeze' roll succeeds. What are the specific mechanics behind freezing enemies? For our purposes only cold damage can freeze and a hit of cold damage will freeze if two conditions are met: If so, great! If not, well, probably start a new dude. See if I think that'd be good enough to freeze some bosses. So I think the way to proceed is to work out what I could do to go all in on freezing. At that point I may even be better off just using a different spell entirely!

If I'm building up to being able to leech tank bosses I can do the same for all the trash too and I'd be better off without all the freeze related points in the tree.

Running a bunch of curses and instant leech and the like is fine if enemies aren't frozen but if they are then it's not really doing anything for me and maybe I'll be better off without 4 item slots dedicated to doing all my cursing.Īlternatively maybe I'm better off doing all the cursing and leeching without worrying about freezing at all. I will be getting more of both with more levels (both in terms of getting more passive points in the tree and in terms of leveling up my skill gems) but I'm starting to feel like I need to really go all in on one or the other. I've been trying to straddle a line of being able to still deal with bosses that aren't frozen so I've ended up with a mishmash of a build where I have some survivability and some freezability but not really enough of either. I can absolutely crush trash monsters but I've been having trouble with bosses. The theory turns out to be better than the practice, however. This means they can't take actions, which means they can't do damage, which means I get to be invincible! Mwahaha! The goal of the build is to do a bunch of cold damage and inflict the 'freeze' debuff on all of the enemies. My current character is running the freezing pulse skill gem because they added a unique jewel that buffs it and I had fun with it years ago.

I have been playing a lot of Path of Exile lately.
