Winter Orb radius?

For pure damage / boss killing, is it worth it to try to max out area by using an Awakened Area of Effect Gem?

How many of the projectiles can you get overlapping at once?

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VixTrader wrote:

For pure damage / boss killing, is it worth it to try to max out area by using an Awakened Area of Effect Gem?

How many of the projectiles can you get overlapping at once?

winter orb is all about spreading out massive damage all over the screen
and offscreen, so its bad at boss killing. increaseing its aoe might
make it worse at boss killing. like a wider spread on a shotgun.

maybe reduced area of effect or slower projectiles will improve
boss damage. when I ran winter orb I played with swapping it out
during boss fights for glacial spike/fp.

you want the range to be such that the orb explodes either just in front
or behind the boss.

maybe this post from 2019 helps - it also has a section about aoe scaling:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bobqtc/winter_orb_mechanics_hit_rate_cast_speed_scaling/

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Gamingtwink wrote:

maybe this post from 2019 helps - it also has a section about aoe scaling:

https://www.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/bobqtc/winter_orb_mechanics_hit_rate_cast_speed_scaling/

Thanks for that link! I seem to be playing Winter Orb wrong this whole time. I always thought that it would deal more damage from really close range so that maybe I could overlap a lot of the explosions.

According to that thread, it actually does more damage further away, outside of melee range.

So why in the world have I been standing point blank to bosses this whole time, when I could be doing more damage from half a screen away :)


Also, I always avoided Conc effect gem because I thought it was a damage loss, due to loss of Area. But it seems you don't need that much extra area to overcome the negative effects of Conc.

glad I could help? =P