Frost Shield
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I've been using Frost Shield to complement my self-cast Frostbolt/Ice Nova combo build, and it feels pretty strong to drop it on bosses and longer encounters where I expect to stay in one place for a bit. I don't think it's so strong that it needs to be nerfed, but I would probably use it on this build even if it were just the spell base crit or just the extra protection. The chill effect is also great for getting extra damage with Bonechill Support.
It would be helpful if the Frost Shield's life were displayed somewhere, either on the buff icon like Steelskin and Molten Shell or on the life globe itself similar to Rage. |
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It is displayed on the skill icon if it is active on your hotbar, at least is is on PS4. It shows up as a vertical red bar like with a minion.
I started out with it on cwdt along with sigil of power. I was initially confused about its visual as my energy shield was still frosted over but the bubble would instantly disappear and I thought it was just a visual bug. I didn't know that the frost effect indicated I was receiving a crit chance buff even though the shield got yeeted. I know better now, and have started using it cwc with Storm Burst because I absolutely hated having to manually cast it constantly as soon as it came off cd while I'm already popping bane + Conductivity/Enfeeble intermittently and topping off my Stone Golem and using illusory warp. I needed to see the hp of both my golem and the shield and as I can only have 4 icons for skills visible at once, and hated having to hit L2 to peep one of their bars, I decided to take the hit to damage and use cwc for convenience. It does have good uptime, and hopefully is doing enough good. My big question is if it actually CAN hit stage 4 by default without any added duration effects. The gem info makes it seem to only have enough time to hit stage 3 by default but I've heard otherwise on Reddit. I would love it if the actual hp value of the shield were displayed in the buff icon at the top like with the Magna Eclipsis buff though so I could just see for myself and gauge if it is even doing enough for me. Last edited by RubySydell on Sep 28, 2020, 3:51:44 AM
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Yeah, I wish it just said the total shield drain over the total time it takes to hit stage 4, or the shield drain per stage. And display a number for the life left.
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" You're right; I missed it because I was looking for a number. Now I feel dumb. |
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Phantasmal Frost Shield's quality [Frost shield recovers .x% of its life per second] seems to need rebalanced by an order of magnitude. In its current state a decent end game 25/50 Phantasmal Frost Shield will recover 28 of its life per second and an ultra maxed 40/119 Phantasmal Frost Shield would recover ~145 of its life per second. With these numbers it feels like it might have gotten its 1% quality effect set as its 20% quality effect.
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