Self-freezing ?

Since I saw this:

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Mark_GGG wrote:

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elitedesolator wrote:

I take it that this means if you take Unstoppable you cannot be frozen?

Or when you're frozen you can still move but can't attack?

It means you can be frozen and can still move and attack (and cast, etc) as normal.

.... I started to wonder... is there any way to freeze yourself ? We have few items giving you bonuses while you are frozen and now we get bonus which makes us able to act normally while your body is one big ice block.

Long ago I saw build utilizing self-shocking but I cannot find anything which would enable self-freezing. Any ideas?

There's nothing particularly consistent as yet. You could use Coil, Eyes of the Greatwolf and Taste of Hate to take a lot of phys/lightning damage as cold, but that's about the best you can do.

Comes to mind..

Good idea. I missed Eyes of the Greatwolf's "elemental damage taken" conversion. That could work

Do you think that heartbound loop dmg could also be converted by this setup ?

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Heartbound_Loop

I think it would be too strong if you could self-freeze easily, because of:

Berek's Pass - 5000 armour while frozen
Auxium (to increase duration)
Winterheart - 20% life regen while frozen.

Edit: Heartbound loop damage would be converted by Taste of Hate, but how would it freeze you? I think to freeze it needs to have a chance to freeze, or crit you.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

I think it would be too strong if you could self-freeze easily, because of:

Berek's Pass - 5000 armour while frozen
Auxium (to increase duration)
Winterheart - 20% life regen while frozen.

Indeed. And you just listed things what I had in mind. But if you really can convert heartbound loop dmg to cold, freezing yourself should be easy with these combined:

http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Frostbite
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Shackles_of_the_Wretched
http://pathofexile.gamepedia.com/Reckless_Defence

Oooooh clever thinking with Reckless defence especially. I wonder if the damage from Heartbound loop can crit, though? If it can, then just stack a few of those and get the reduced crit damage taken nodes.

Shackles + frostbite should definitely work if heartbound loop damage counts as a 'hit'. I think it should, since it's not DoT, and it procs CWDT.

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dudiobugtron wrote:

Shackles + frostbite should definitely work if heartbound loop damage counts as a 'hit'. I think it should, since it's not DoT, and it procs CWDT.

Yea, that's probably the best way to go with this mechanic and I plan on testing it ^^

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Thanks for help people - I made new build based on what we talked here:

https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/1608708

If it works it will be crazy xD

But right now I am too poor to even test it so till I earn enough it will be just theorycraft. If someone wants to test it, just do it and write in the build thread ^^

Build updated - now it is almost finished theorycraft. Since high armour was not calculating well with Hearbound Loop self-dmg mechanic I went with pure RF build where you recast summons just to keep yourself cool...literaly xD

CwDT semi-automatic cast should also be doable with that but you would need to completely forget about armour and even try to enhance dmg-taken. Also, it will stop working when you run out of Taste of Hate charges, whereas RF version just gets weaker.

I also dropped the idea of lightning coil coupled with Eyes of the Greatwolf as the later unique would require 300+ ex from what I see on poe.trade. Not something for me. Still I wish that it would be viable (maybe if we get some better chances of dropping it in the future...)