Freezing Pulse not viable anymore?
I've seen it in a few vids and it seemed to work really well but they were a year or a couple years ago and I've been trying to use it and I just noticed the farther the monster is the weaker it hits, and with the support gems I know of, I'm not really how how this skill could be made viable with Greater Multiple Projectiles.
Did it get a big nerf or something? Thanks. | |
that is the nature of FP. you have to get closer to get more damage.
to increase range, get faster projectiles. FP works best with GMP + crit I need more purple titles
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I think it's main problem is damage reduction with distance, as spell casters usually don't like melee combat.
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Freeze Pulser works just very fine and has great Clearspeed at all. Maybe u looked false, try
http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1049189 or http://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1079874 As i leveled my Freeze Pulser i recordniced that % on FP Gem is very important in Case of Reach and also used an faster Proje Gem. Later in 60-70 i switched to Increased Critical Damage for faster Proje Gem because of big Dam also in wide Range. Trading DpS with Monsters for Loot will ever best Ratio!-)
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For reference, this mechanic has always been part of Freezing Pulse's design - those videos from years ago also suffered a Damage penalty at range. :)
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Self-casters got buffs upon buffs over the recent patches (Echo, Heralds) so it's more viable than ever. I swap between FP and Ice Spear a lot, both have their pros and cons. FP does more damage at close range, it's easier to maintain power charges with HoL; IS is better for sniping, safer, and lets me perma-run Divination.
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I like it.
It's very powerful when I shotgun bosses right in the face (being able to shotgun is one of more important parts of a spell). Adding vaal haste and atziri flask I kill Dominus 1st form in like 4 hits, 2nd form in 10. I like how it can freeze a whole huge group of mobs that spawn from a strongbox (ice spear, arctic breath cannot "cover" entire groups, they crash at the first row of mobs they hit). And my links aren't that good to begin with: Yea, DPS from afar is mostly "tingling bosses", but when they get closer, they get shotgunned 5 times with 700% crit multi... Works for me. | |
cold to fire gem, crit, castspeed, aa, eb and u do insane dmg and never die to reflect, played it last league
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Viable, just a different kind of gameplay.
In rampage i ran a hybrid witch with FP and the following setup: 6L infernal mantle, Pyre: Freezing Pulse - GMP - Life Leech - Inc. Crit Damage - Cold to Fire - Echo Which had really decent clear speed and was tanky (3.2k life, 4.8k es), using ghost reaver for ES and pots for life. [2.2] The Vampire - Tanky 2H Axe Slayer Duelist - /view-thread/1611662
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I'm playing CoC FP atm and it's great.
Almost 200% increased projectile speed and it's range is solid. Many lewt.
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