Frost Wall useless?

I have never used it and probably won't.
What can you do with a wall that lasts 2 seconds and deals very little damage?

Increased duration. Faster casting. Those nodes near the center that give 15% increased duration a piece add up to the point where you can cast in under half a second and it lasts for more than 4. My level 77 witch can easily kill brutus/kole variants without taking a hit. I've even had map runs where no one in the party took a hit from the dungeon boss.

While I've never used it before, I'm planning on making an Elemental Equilibrium Trap Templar (Traplar?) when lightning trap is released, and I'll use Frost Wall for both defense and to kick off the EE so Fire Trap and Lightning Trap deal increased damage. And as Vesuvorus noted above, you can use increased duration and faster casting to make it more beneficial. Not sure if increased area of effect also works with it but I would try it.

Frost Wall is probably one of the least used skills in the game, which makes me think it has a lot of hidden potential in niche builds.

I have an incinerate totem templar who uses frost wall to keep mobs away from the totems so they can ramp up to stage 3 before getting killed.

Frost wall + spell totem.

Thank me later.

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XDementia wrote:

Frost wall + spell totem.

Thank me later.

I tried it out, thank you.

Lighning Arrow.

I don't use it often myself, but there are occasions when it DOES come in handy. Blocking Kole or Brutus. Piety can also be blocked, but the first form of Ice Spear can pierce the wall, so it's not as effective.

Personally, I don't like Frost Wall on totems, because you don't have any control over where it is cast - unless this has changed since last time I tried it on a totem.

Still, a useful skill in some situations. Somewhere someone posted that you can even push its damage to a usable amount with faster casting and added chaos damage.

It's the most imbalanced things in the game. It allows you to solo double temple piety with negative resists.

Just be carefull, skill is horrible when you desync. You see enemies on the other side of the wall, but they might actually be attacking you and BANG you died.

Happened to me.