[1.0] Queen_Frostburn | AoF Burning Dual Ice Spear Totems | No longer Updated

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Unislash wrote:

If you are going mine, you should probably grab clever construction. Mines getting destroyed by aoe is quite a problem without it. Also be advised that even if you get Volatile Mines to trigger mines instantly, triggering the traps will stop you from moving momentarily.

Also, Path of the Warrior is a great node for health-based characters. I'd definitely grab it at one point considering you're right next to it.

Zakktb, sorry for stealing your thread :-p. I'm curious to hear your input :-)

That is quite alright. I am theory crafting out other builds, seeing as I hate to level new toons, this is turning into a community project. Great to see all the input that you guys are putting in.

Edit: Never thought a thread of mine would ever hit 10k views. I'm glad to see interest in the idea itself, and happy the community is making their own variations.

Huh, that's an interesting (albeit expensive) take on this :-)

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- no avatar node to keep the cold dmg with freeze
- tarin's shiver 6L staff to get more dmg on frozen targets

The only problem with freezing targets is that when the procced mob that proliferated the burning dies and breaks, the burning stops. Ideally we actually wouldn't freeze anything if we wanted to make the burning as effective as possible (and if you would rather just go with normal hit damage, I'd say ice spear isn't the best spell for it).

Let us know how it works out :-)

My toon is ~lvl 40 now, just using fireball for leveling after work with some friends. Hopefully I'll be able to make the transition soon.

Let me just ask a question: how far have you gotten with this?

And now let me share my experience: I made a dual ice totems build with CtF and proliferation before release.

The burns did all of 20 damage. In merciless ledge.

Some part of that was the GMP, but removing that...40 damage. Yeah. And it was hardly a "safe" build either, since I couldn't get a decent proliferation radius from hitting just one mob and the freeze didn't even last all that long.

I had better luck without the CtF gem, as in there was no difference in kill speed and the freezes lasted longer. Note that this is with just removing the CtF gem and not replacing it with any other gem.

I'm guessing this thread's build will fail, and fail hard. Enveratise crafted a similar IS CtF AoF build, without the totem, and that one I'm guessing can be made viable eventually. The idea of totems, kind of just impractical with this, I feel. Which begs the question of why not just use fireball?

And finally. Searing Touch.

Hello all
Im a lvl 52 on this build, I kind of like it however I do not have the equipment to go much farther. So im docking this til I get the money. I do have a question, to gain the power charges, im using crit on hit. Would I get more chances if I took my lvl 1 ice spear and use a multiple projectile? Or does that divide up the chance for it?

Thank you in advance!

any update im curious to where you are now? i wanna try this if it works!!

hello,everyone.
that's a interesting build and I'm lv 52 on this build,too.

Did anyone can share the choice of equipment?

thanks a lot.

I am also here to question the legitimacy of this build. AFAIK Avatar of Fire only affects the damage you do and not the damage your totems do, so Cold to Fire is the only conversion happening.

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Brigs wrote:

I am also here to question the legitimacy of this build. AFAIK Avatar of Fire only affects the damage you do and not the damage your totems do, so Cold to Fire is the only conversion happening.

When I tested with Triple totems, It affected the Totem damage as well.