(Outdated)Frostbolt/Eye of Winter, Coldsnap, Cast on freeze Comet

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

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Keep updating your progress! Build looks interesting and I'm excited to see what you come up with in the future.

Could you give yourself away and tell what passive points on asc tree are you planning to choose? :)

The ascendancy points should be in the skill tree's linked at the top. I went 4 into the arcane surge first for the cast speed and mana regen. I plan on going for the elemental storm nodes next since this will be a crit build. If they feel bad I'll go with something else!

Ah, you are right! I didn't think to swipe to the top, my bad!
Regarding the elemental storm, I had the same idea in mind. I wonder how will that feel :)

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Have you thought about running MoM and stacking tons of mana to go with Force of Will ascendancy?

I've thought about doing something like a MoM + EB strategy but havent landed on anything concrete yet, with how easy it is to respec in this game I'll likely be making a lot of changes to this build, if I do make that change I'll be sure to update it in this post!

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hi which wepaon has sigil of power need help on finding it please

Look for Chiming Staff :)

I don't see the point in manually casting cold snap, its just tedious and clumsy.

You should be casting frost wall which is a far superior skill in terms of AOE and damage. Cold snap can be autocasted with cast on freeze.

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I don't see the point in manually casting cold snap, its just tedious and clumsy.

You should be casting frost wall which is a far superior skill in terms of AOE and damage. Cold snap can be autocasted with cast on freeze.

Cold snap isn’t used for AoE! The primary AoE factor in this build is comet with cast on freeze, which is achieved by casting frost bolt + scattershot. Manual casting cold snap + unleash is primarily for doing bursts of damage by casting it on the 3 frostbolts you shoot. Frost wall is a great skill and I use it to help kill bosses and rares all the time but I would not compare it even remotely to the AoE this build is already capable of! It’s significantly better to just spam and freeze everything on screen with frost bolt and watch the comets kill it all!

Hello !!

Why don't use frost nova ?

When i started Sorc i picked lightning and now i want to change to cold. Do I need to make a new character?

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Hello !!

Why don't use frost nova ?

Hi! I don’t use frost nova because generally I don’t feel like I need it and I don’t really like the feel of using it. Cold snap + unleash on frostbolts just feels much better to me and spamming frost bolt freezes entire packs of enemies very easily since I can shoot a lot very quickly, Which then triggers comet and that just wipes the whole screen! I might experiment with Frost Nova for exploding Frost Wall in single target, it may work better than cold snap but I’m not sure yet I have to test it.

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When i started Sorc i picked lightning and now i want to change to cold. Do I need to make a new character

Not necessarily! If you have the gold you can just respec as many passive points as you want! However if the cost to respec is just too high compared to the gold you have it might be a better option to reroll.

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KyleMasc#7189 wrote:

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What did you put your Ascendancy points into?

Thanks

Arcane Surge section first, going elemental storms next.

Thanks alot sir.

Another question. What did you pick in Act 3?

25% increased Stun Threshold.
30% increased Elemental Ailment Threshold.
25% increased Mana Regeneration Rate.

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Thanks again. Love the build so far.