Hypothermia - Am I chilling Guardians?
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Played a couple guardian runs yesterday, with this skill setup:
According to PoB (https://pastebin.com/9sTbQzcz), I should deal ~400k DpS without flasks, ~550k with flasks. But while I succeeded killing them, my damage felt very mediocre. Am I actually on a 5L against them? Am I below this treshold? Wiki: "Hits below the minimum threshold of 1% effect are discarded, effectively requiring a hit of 0.33% enemy maximum life." 3.5 build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2299519 Last bumped on Apr 1, 2018, 12:42:15 PM
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Guardian of the Chimera (I picked a random one since you didn't say which one you were fighting) has about 9.5 million life. Taking 0.33% of that gives about 31,350. So if you deal at least that much cold damage in one hit, you will chill the guardian. While you don't deal that much damage with normal hits, your crit (even without Hypothermia and not a Ruthless hit) should do enough damage most of the times to chill the guardian. You crit something like 5 times per second, so the guardian should definitely be permanently chilled.
(I am going to trust you that your PoB link is genuine, and you're not inflating your damage by toggling some effects you don't actually have in the fight. Also that you don't have something fundamentally preventing you from chilling stuff. I didn't go over your build in full detail, just looked at the stats page.) Last edited by Abdiel_Kavash#5296 on Apr 1, 2018, 5:32:23 AM
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" Thank you, didn't know the exact HP of Guardians to do this simple calculation myself. So it definetely should work. It's fine that I don't kill them in 4 seconds or something like that, but I didn't want enter the fight with a gem that does nothing. " I clicked intimidate and maim from the tombfist gloves (though maim only slows, I have pure cold damage), "full Power Charges" (Assassin) and "only one nearby enemy" (Assassin). Also Warchief buff should be up. And then I also clicked "enemy is chilled", the stuff my question was about. ;) I don't use Elemental overload, so I should be able to chill. Touch of Anguish only states that "crits do not always freeze", nothing about chill. 3.5 build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2299519
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Isn't the 400k DPS the combined result of all eight projectiles and APS? Then a single projectile hit might be well below 31.5k.
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Whats about arctic breath totem?
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" No. Frostblades has a melee hit (though with a bit of range), that's what is shown in the PoB link. You can select "projectile" there to see the damage of the AoE coverage it has (way lower, because I scale melee mostly, there's no real need to overkill mobs). 3.5 build: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/2299519
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Ah yes, ty.
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" if your using frostblades and doing 400k+ you are using crit, multi doesn't apply to ailments anymore so you probably arne't doing enough to chill. Use AA/cwdt + AB or an aquamarine flask to ensure your hitting with it. Edit - this might only apply to ignite/poison/bleed tbh i'm under the weather today and my head hurts just thinking about the ailment changes but i'd check the thresholds and run an aquamarine anyway if your unsure. Last edited by Draegnarrr#2823 on Apr 1, 2018, 12:45:56 PM
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