Slowing enemies to the max

Back in my Diablo 2 days, I had quite some fun with a Slowadin (Paladin with HF aura and other slowing items) or a necro with decrepify, clay golem, merc with HF and other stuff. Enemies which can barely move or attack are harmless enemies.

PoE also seems to have the right tools for it: the curse Temporal Chains, cold skills with freeze/chill and surely some unique items for additional slowing. Is there someone with an idea on how to maximize all slowing effects on enemies? Or are there even players who tried to create such an extreme slowing character?

There are a lot of builds that focus on perma freezing enemies. They use high cold damage and freeze chance, often combined with temp chains. That's probably the closest there is atm.

The Abyssal Cry skill can also be used.

Look at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3hmh7j/tempest_level_95_whispering_ice_enhanced/

and click on the picture to see the build in action. It apparently achieves 88% slower enemies with Whispering Ice + Temporal Chains + other stuff. It even has slow relaxing music!

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scrooge999 wrote:

Look at:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/3hmh7j/tempest_level_95_whispering_ice_enhanced/

and click on the picture to see the build in action. It apparently achieves 88% slower enemies with Whispering Ice + Temporal Chains + other stuff. It even has slow relaxing music!

Thanks! This looks promising, but also very expensive. Is there an low budget version of this build?

While we're at it, what other ways of slowing an enemy (besides cold damage) are there in PoE? I'm asking because cold resistant monsters can be a problem, I assume. Are there noticable items which slow down enemies without cold damage?

There's effects that chill enemies without cold damage, most notably Arctic Armour and Soul Taker (make sure to use Hypothermia as support if you go that route). There's also Abyssal Cry and Temporal Chains. You can get some knockback (via the Knockback gem, items or passive tree) so enemies take even longer to reach you. It sounds like a fun if not the most powerful concept. Reave could be a nice attack with all these things but I'm sure there are other routes as well.

Skills:
Abyssal Cry
Temporal Chains curse
Anything which deals cold damage/chills - especially Arctic Breath due to leaving frozen ground in its way
Arctic Armour

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I've found that killing them quickly is pretty effective.