Opinions Please: Just started a glacial hammer support tank

I wanted a party tank capable of running at least 3-4 auras (hatred, purity of ele, grace and determination), max block when needed, mass freeze & chill, max res and decent life

I came up with a couple passive trees

1st is mostly damage based


2nd takes breath of rime passive node which with melee splash + ele prolif would effectively freeze/chill everything that comes anywhere near where iv hit and then frozen enemies would then chill and pass that on if they surive long enough



As for gear i was going to use


the gloves add around 2k dmg in higher levels and icetomb would one help vs reflect and two the chill duration is insane with other things like quality gems etc im looking at around 280% chill duration

the other items iv yet to acquire would be alphas howl and prism guardian both very expensive

as for dps with perfect gear it seems to get around 17-23k dps

all i wanna know is whether breath of rime is worth my time :)

Right well no feed back yet but nvm

iv changed the passive tree



breath of rime seems pointless as most frozen monsters will shatter if hit at 15% life i think it is? so meh also took abit of dmg off ditched the mana cost passives and got abit more mana reserve, res & armour

been casually smashing through norm diff at lvl 34, vaal didnt even damage me

my tree at lvl34


heading for iron reflexes first off then unwavering after, the hard knocks passive is important for equipping the sceptres then ill just fill out the dmg and block nodes around the duelist section

got around 460 dps on glacial hammer, only gear worth mentioning are these



running with cast when dmg taken, temp chains and endureing cry which made kole so slow he may aswell well of just stood there

hopeing cruel goes as smoothly :)