Can someone tell me how Cast on Freeze "abuses mechanics"?

You go through your tree and there are tons of Freeze Buildup nodes. I'm a frost sorc, I freeze things. Then around level 30ish you get Cast on Freeze. Cool! Then you get Comet right around the same level. Hell, it even has a "Payoff" tag. Okay, so obviously, the goal of this class is to freeze enemies and use Cast on Freeze to trigger Comet. That's logical, right?

Where is the abuse? If anything I'd have liked to cast 20-30% fewer comets, but the skill does not work now, and there are no other payoff spells in frost sorc.

On another note, I'm astonished that GGG hasn't given a statement about this. 170 pages of feedback and counting in the thread and it hasn't even been 24 hours.

Edit: Oh, I forgot the thing that pissed me off the most. They accused us of using low level spells to trigger high level ones. I was playing CoC Comet, using Eye of Winter, which is the HIGHEST TIER OF SPELL. It is a higher tier than Comet itself! The ignite cheese? Sure, nerf that. But don't accuse me of abusing low level spells when your HIGH LEVEL spell that has a CRITICAL HIT BUFF on it and does ZERO DAMAGE OTHERWISE so it is obvious it is meant to be used as a trigger no longer works for your cast on crit trigger.

There was no abuse. We used skills as they were intended to be used. They just made the skills without testing them AS USUAL and we wasted our time as usual.

Beta testing isn't for everyone.

You're not spending a minute fighting white mobs, so the build is out of bounds.

Considering how it was changed the intention was clearly to not have cast on x be the entire build, but rather be a supportive element to a build.

Ergo, the interaction that allowed you chain ailments or crits and autobomb entire maps with 0 effort was abusing cast on x in a way that GGG did not intend.
So they fixed it to be in line with their vision.

Since they are, believe it or not, the developers.


Also the sheer number of people who were apparantly playing this should scream red flags to yall - of course its going to be changed. What are you thinking that it wouldnt be?!

Glad this is getting fixed, I am also glad that everyone that fails to understand the meaning of Early Access, that they're essentially helping with QA and beta testing, is being filtered out.

I want to be a part of Early Access for its entirety and I am having a blast, the sooner these self-entitled people, that turn everything into politics so that they can get enough loud voices behind their bad ideas, leaves the better it will be for those that understand what EA entails, that bought access to EA in order to help, and didn't come into this with unrealistic expectations that don't help the game improve.

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unrealistic expectations that don't help the game improve.

Nerfing my build into useless oblivion doesn't help the game improve. It just makes me quit because you obviously don't know what you're doing.

The problem wasn't that it was nerfed it was how bad the nerf was, literally a shotgun used in a hostage situation, they should revert it back to around 50% of what it was and add a CD to it and then fine tune it either way. TBF it was overturned I agree but they should of nerfed the synergy not the skill, no one running around frostbolt or mine to cast on freeze and to say it was supposed to be supportive is a stretch as the whole of that skill selection was CoX.


What makes me laugh is ppl keep saying it's a souls like but it's not, in souls like u can't forever dodge roll, there's never more that hand full of enemies and even they had OP 'builds' so i dont so how its even soulslike. So the takeaway from that for me is they added a roll mechanic to save time on making movement skills and l don't mean flying around at 200mph, the only one I see is blink and that added a CD to something that is spammable so why would I take that.



Im a average skilled gamer and I had some different passives but I wasnt clearing whole maps or kill bosses in a few minutes, also where are the buffs to make ppl want to play other styles and make them more appealing.

Yeah I actually thought we were casting a few too many Comets, I was constantly OOM. I would have liked to cast like 30% fewer. But not 2000% fewer.