[3.3] HrimShot - IceShot/Barrage Frenzy Raider (Shaper Down)

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OmniDefenestrator wrote:

I'd try slower projectiles for the 6th link ice shot. Ele focus would give the highest dps, but the chill/freeze is an important part of survivability (plus the damage we get against chilled from the threshold jewel).

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GlacialSpike wrote:

Sorry for my noob question,why GMP in barrage set up? what's the benefit of converting fully into cold? what if i use phys to light gem instead of gmp on barrage links?

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tkensei wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I'm currently not able to freeze, is it because my character is too low level? (level 46 ranger). Also how can I tell if I am chilling enemies?

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OmniDefenestrator wrote:

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GlacialSpike wrote:

Sorry for my noob question,why GMP in barrage set up? what's the benefit of converting fully into cold? what if i use phys to light gem instead of gmp on barrage links?

GMP in barrage because the additional projectiles add a ton of damage (even though each projectile has slightly reduced damage). Base barrage has 3 projectiles, and GMP adds 4 more, meaning without any other additional projectiles, it's basically a 133% MORE multiplier. The downside on GMP is only 26% less per projectile, so in the end we come out way ahead.

Converting fully to cold means we can scale both phys and ele/cold for increase/multipliers. It's not true "double dipping" because the multipliers only apply once, but the pool of multipliers we can use is much larger: https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Damage_conversion#Mechanics

Phys to light instead of barrage would be really bad imo - GMP adds a TON of damage, we don't have a lot of +phys damage, and all our penetration/inc ele is targeted for cold, not lightning.

I highly recommend checking out Path of Building (https://github.com/Openarl/PathOfBuilding) if you haven't already, it makes seeing how your dmg numbers change much easier.

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tkensei wrote:

Thanks for your reply. I'm currently not able to freeze, is it because my character is too low level? (level 46 ranger). Also how can I tell if I am chilling enemies?

Chill is applied on any cold damage (https://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Chill). It just slows monsters 0-30% depending on how hard your hit was, so if it takes you a lot of hits to kill monsters, the chill slow may not be as noticable. If one hit is doing >10% of the monsters' HP of cold damage (which should be all of your damage), they'll be max chilled and have a 30% slow. Freeze is much rarer on this build as only crits can proc freeze (our tree doesn't have any +freeze chance), and we try to crit once every 8 seconds in endgame to keep elemental overload up.