Tasalio's Sign Seems Quite Good

Gave Tasalio's Sign a whirl. It seems pretty OP. At level 20 I have almost 2k evasion!

I'm just not sure if the adds 10-15 physical damage to frozen enemies applies to spells as well? Does it? I doubt it, but does anyone know for sure?

Besides that, anyone else notice how insane these rings are? I never paid attention to them before. I first saw the freeze chance and the added damage and so wasn't interested in it very much. But I never noticed the evasion on the rings! It seems to me that, that's the main reason to use them.

I'm thinking if you combine these with Dark Seers, you'd have yourself a nearly invincible character.

Nice leveling ring, not much else.
No one is going to wear it just for chance to freeze, and evasion is only good at low levels, other stats don't differ from rare rings.

No life, no es, no % damage increase, no IIR, no accuracy, no crit, only 30% res, basically no endgame-useful stats.

You are right in a way. However, I was thinking that there is something special about the mod on the ring that adds 10-15 damage to frozen enemies. Does it mean that spells, minions, and totems created by the player also get this bonus?

There doesn't seem to be any info on the wiki about it. Or does this vague wording only apply to 'attacks' by the player.

Also about the evasion on the rings, I think that up to +600 evasion is substantial enough to effect end game. Particularly, the Ondar's Guile part of it turning that into +1200 evasion vs those pesky ranged attacks.

I also see chance to freeze as a defensive portion. It's a very defensive item!

Currently I'm leveling a cold snap, freeze mine, wander. If I add a ranged attack totem, I don't know whether the totem will get the +20-30 physical bonus to frozen enemies that it hits though.

One thing I've found in my time playing two different freeze builds: You can never have enough chance-to-freeze.

I mean, 95% crit chance aside, if you're looking for a balanced build that can freeze enemies as a part of it's defensive capability, the more freeze chance the better.

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gilrad wrote:

One thing I've found in my time playing two different freeze builds: You can never have enough chance-to-freeze.

I mean, 95% crit chance aside, if you're looking for a balanced build that can freeze enemies as a part of it's defensive capability, the more freeze chance the better.

This is only true for a non-crit character however. If your a crit cold caster, using freezing pulse for example, you would be MUCH better off using 2x diamond rings with life, res, and tons of crit chance. Crit chance > freeze chance for a crit character. It gives more freezes, and longer freezes due to more damage.

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BearCares wrote:

You are right in a way. However, I was thinking that there is something special about the mod on the ring that adds 10-15 damage to frozen enemies. Does it mean that spells, minions, and totems created by the player also get this bonus?

There doesn't seem to be any info on the wiki about it. Or does this vague wording only apply to 'attacks' by the player.

"Integer," i.e. not percent-based, damage bonuses never apply to spells.

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LeftyLucy wrote:

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BearCares wrote:

You are right in a way. However, I was thinking that there is something special about the mod on the ring that adds 10-15 damage to frozen enemies. Does it mean that spells, minions, and totems created by the player also get this bonus?

There doesn't seem to be any info on the wiki about it. Or does this vague wording only apply to 'attacks' by the player.

"Integer," i.e. not percent-based, damage bonuses never apply to spells.

thanks. I guess that's a general rule I never noticed before.

I think these rings are good for an evasion character who doesn't want to wear an evasion chest or shield for example. Let's say you'd rather use the phoenix shield for fire resist with cloak of flame. Then you could put on the vertex + these rings and still manage to have enough evasion for ondar's guile to let you evade projectiles. Or let's say you DO wear all evasion gear except for your shield and you use Titicus' Span with ondar's guile. These rings will help make up for the choice to use an armor shield instead.

Or something =)

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LeftyLucy wrote:

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BearCares wrote:

You are right in a way. However, I was thinking that there is something special about the mod on the ring that adds 10-15 damage to frozen enemies. Does it mean that spells, minions, and totems created by the player also get this bonus?

There doesn't seem to be any info on the wiki about it. Or does this vague wording only apply to 'attacks' by the player.

"Integer," i.e. not percent-based, damage bonuses never apply to spells.

Except for when they do. Like Herald of Thunder and Herald of Ice explicitly doing just that.

From what Nick said on the last state of exile podcast, they wanted to add items that complement other items instead of straight reworks. The ring could be some attempt to get people to use hyrri's ire. The cold buffs and evasion matches with the same theme. Maybe you could do some mara evasion archer where it would be difficult to reach acrobatics normally. I doubt it would be any good but it might be fun to try.

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BearCares wrote:

I'm just not sure if the adds 10-15 physical damage to frozen enemies applies to spells as well? Does it? I doubt it, but does anyone know for sure?

It does not. Flat damage on gear doesn't apply to spells.

I doubt you'll find any veterans that tell you it's a good ring, at least for high level characters. It seems like it was introduced for PvP (specifically low level dueling) more than anything else.