Ice Nova

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Vipermagi wrote:

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darkel wrote:

Ice Nova has a base 15 yard radius where it hits everything in that radius. For the 15-30 yard radius, it has a number of spikes that shoot out that are not guaranteed to hit and become linearly less likely to hit as the range increases...these spikes are of variable size and shoot a distance based on their size...double your AOE radius and the spikes are twice as likely to miss a target. At the very edge of the effect, the chance to hit targets is practically non-existent.

Ice Nova is a flat AoE, with a 30 units radius. The spikes are purely visual.

Must be lag, then, if that is the way it is designed...played Ice Nova for the last 65 levels and all too commonly get sniped by archers while they only take damage when the spikes hit them and watch melee walk to me without taking damage until they hit the inner ring. Whatever gets hit by the visual inner ring never misses unless there's an object between us.

It's not a range thing...I'm hitting the mobs right next to them or in the case of the melee mobs, further out than them. I'm seeing it on docks so I'm pretty sure there's no dimples in the ground that are breaking LOS only in very specific areas.

This skill has surprisingly decent damage especially when you add in chaos and lightening damage supports that actually add as much damage as the skill itself.

I've gone for a lot of crit nodes (as well as a fair few AoE nodes)and less life than normal basically because frozen enemies cannot attack so crit=defence.Get just over 3 k DPs at level 60,it beats my fireballers DPS (but then it might be down to gear).

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By level 70 I have about 4.3 k although had it at 4.7k at one point but swapped out gear for better crit chance to freeze more.Anyway had so much fun with this build that started one on ambush and even with 17% crit chance seem to freeze a lot.Whats great about this skill is it covers such a big area so that more than makes up for any low dps it has.Anyway I think this is kinda the perfect build for Ambush as you can freeze the enemies when they spawn preventing you getting over run.

Spreed sheet of ice nova damage


passive skill tree used to get most increased damage



I made a spreed sheet of ice nova's damage with 503% increased total spell/cold/elemental damage, using a few very rare uniques. Of course rares could increase this substantially but the chance to find those rolls are less likely than the uniques themselves. For instance a lvl 30 ice nova is near impossible to obtain even if you empowered and found a staff or something that had +2 to gems +2 to cold gems, you would only obtain a lvl 27 ice nova, lets say you had a 6 socket Taryn's shiver with Ice nova + Increased area of effect (lvl20)+Concentrated effect(Lvl20) +Empower (Lvl 4) + Cold Damage + Cold pentatration then you had the Frost bite curse lvl 20 with equal lib + fire spell to use before ice nova, you could put out some serious damage. Of course you would also need some extreme resistance + Life or ES or both to even make use of this skill without crits. I seriously believe this skill was intended for support only. Mainly due to the fact you have to have some serious gear to make use of this for leveling after act 2 cruel, gettin to cruel wouldn't even be fun with it. I love ice nova and I would like to make a build with it that doesn't involve crit but in the games current state, thats near impossible.

Buff ice nova damage please,i love this skill but atm damage is pathetic.

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Vraarz wrote:

Buff ice nova damage please,i love this skill but atm damage is pathetic.

Can I see your build and what supports are you using(don't need to see gear)?

I'm having no trouble even on a fresh league,I have a level 68 now as well as L71 on standard.

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Kavlor wrote:

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Vraarz wrote:

Buff ice nova damage please,i love this skill but atm damage is pathetic.

Can I see your build and what supports are you using(don't need to see gear)?

I'm having no trouble even on a fresh league,I have a level 68 now as well as L71 on standard.

What's important is not character lvl but lvl of content it is possible to realibly do with it. No way it's possible to do any seious late game content with thsi skill (probably even if it gets buffed).

completly useless skill.

Please buff this skill, it's one of my favourite skill and it hardly does any damage. It's just good for leveling till lvl 20 then it hits the ground so hard that you are better off using anything else.