Freezing pulse question

Whats the best gem setup for this?

4 link = ?
5 link = ?
6 link = ?

please advise

That really depends on what you want to support it with. At a minimum you want to have FP+fast+LMP or GMP. After that it is preference. You might want cold penetration, life leech, reduced mana, etc. I don't think Freezing Pulse needs more than a 4 link but it all depends on your build.

3link blue-green-green
FP, lesser multiple, faster projectiles.
This is core. These 3 are just heads and tails above the rest.

4link.
FP, LMP, FP

frankly you have a choice.
Added lightning- Blue heavy damage and chance to shock. FP has 100% damage, so, its only .7 damage x3 with lmp. so, added lightning itself adds a good 25% damage increase, but when you consider shock, its more like 75%. large damage buff. (particularly if youre more all damage, and not just +cold exclusively on gear/passives.)
cold pen- Green. very strong. removes resist, and adds +cold damage with quality.
faster cast- Blue low mana cost. works with added lit and FP core well.
Its hard to define which of these 3 are better then the others. Mix and match as you see fit.

so a 5 link of 2 blue, 3 green. fp, lmp, fp, addlit, cold pen.

Others. quality?, Quantity? want it for farming? you could drop the secondary set, and add these to the core 3.
life leech-red. mainly for a ghost reaver build.

I use FP with Faster Casting and Increased Critical Damage, its wand with +1 to cold gems. Once i find chest with +2 to cold gems and 5LS i will add Increased critical strike and Faster Projectiles; for 6LS i will add Item Rarity.

Basically its up to you.
I counted support gems which will not skyrocket the mana cost of the spell very much, so you probably will be able avoid out-of-mana suffering. But if you want more dps (and more mana cost) you can add "Additional Fire damage" / Cold / Lightning / Chaos, i believe they all for 145% mana; and even more: Lesser Multiply Projectiles (150%) or Greater (250%?).

P.S.: Reduced Mana will help in cost of 1 socket.

What about Ice Spear?

What kind of gem setups do you guys use for Ice Spear, be it with a totem or not? 4L/5L/6L

thanks guys

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fluidin wrote:

What about Ice Spear?

What kind of gem setups do you guys use for Ice Spear, be it with a totem or not? 4L/5L/6L

I like running ice spear and freezing pulse. Those 2 spells are meant to compliment each other. One is super strong at melee but falls off quickly, and the other is near-useless up close but at range provides amazing CC. Give both LMP, toss projectile speed on pulse, sure. But crit damage on ice spear. I am fond of wriggling a crit chance on both of them if I have the sockets, but that is a luxury slot.

there are two typical builds for Ice spear.
do you want a long range sniping tool you will use, or long range aoe freeze?

For sniping tool.
increased crit damage, increased crit chance, fast cast, and possibly reduced mana.
Lets you kill things off screen.

For aoe freeze, you can use yourself or spell totem it.
lmp, spell totem, elem prolif, crit chance.
The totem will spam it for you. hitting in aoe. higher crit increased chance of freeze. and elem prolif spread the freeze.

Fp

Fp-added lightning

FP-LMP

FP-LMP-Faster proj

FP-LMP-Faster proj-faster casting

FP-GMP-faster proj-faster casting-mana leech

Fp-GMP-faster proj-faster casting-mana leech- life leech/item quantity/cold pen/crit dmg/added light/knockback/etc...

I listed freezing pulse and how it should be linked in a level progression way. The reason why I don't use cold pen is becuase with the change to the penetration gems it makes it less beneficial than other gems given that you are using frostbite curse. Oh yeah, use frostbite curse. Dependinf on your mana pool and links available to you then you could use fp-lmp-added lightning at lvl 19; however your 4 link should scrap added light with faster casting.

If you can sustain mana then swap mana leech with life leech. If your CI then this is a no brainer considering you now have mana and mana regen on your gear and in your talent tree rather than health. If you are an hp build then you should only really swap in Life leech if your life pool is high enough to sustain a good leech.

Put ice spear on a totem and drop it behind you. For single target dont use ice spear use bear trap. Link the ice spear totem with faster casting lmp/gmp and if you have room summon skeletons. That way you have a choice for totems.

Tested Mana Leech on FP today because maps were very mana intensive and just wanted to point out how big of a difference it is.
Normally I went through merciless with the playstyle: mana pot nearly always empty, only enough mana for 1 curse for normal mobs, every totem needs 1 mana potion use.
After Mana Leech -> totem all the time, double Curse np, Mana potion only used in few cases.
If you have mana problems with FP, this is the first thing you want to consider. Don't get Reduced Mana, get Mana Leech.


Also I would not consider Faster Projectiles a must-have. Get ~25% projectile on your wand and get a ~15% FP ASAP (it's worth the 2-3 GCPs you have to pay for it) and your FP will have enough speed and power. Of course it is still good but I would not see it as a must-have (but it's funny how 15% FP, 25% Projectile speed affix and lvl 15 Faster projectiles runs across your screen, it actually makes it look slower because you can't keep up casting fast enough even with Faster Cast).


I agree that if you use Ice Spear Totem and FP, one gets LMP the other gets GMP. I prefer LMP on FP because it is more effective in tight corridors and it actually becomes a strong single nuke due to overlap but it may be different for your playstyle.

So I'd go FP - LMP - FC - Mana Leech with 4 slots
+Added Lightning/Cold Penetration, depending how fast your enemies die (shock stacks don't help that much if everything dies in 3 hits and you don't stack them for a party) and may exchange Mana Leech with Faster Projectiles if you can support it (you need more passives for Mana but end up getting more damage through the support gem, so it kinda evens it up).

And again, spend those GCPs on 15%+ FP.

The only thing I wonder is if +2 Cold Gems in Weapon Slot would actually give you more DPS than +Lightning/ColdPen/FastProj etc. in Chest.