Boiling Ambusher

Any word on these mobs getting nerfed? Clearly the highest threat of enemies.

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Dopebear wrote:

Any word on these mobs getting nerfed? Clearly the highest threat of enemies.

With good Cold Resistance they are not.

Man running into a pack of those cold snap spamming buttholes just makes me wanna go genocide on the whole race......


Side note: if we get a cd on coldsnap why don't they???

They used to be really bad I think I raged on the forum once about it :) I'm not sure if they were nerfed already or I learned more about the game since, they don't seem to be doing much of anything to me lately.

You can try:
- max cold resists (always cap all resists in this kind of game)
- sell Iron Ring + Blue Gem to get a Sapphire Ring, try different blue gems to get a +30 resist ring from the vendor
- use Temporal Chains
- focus on zerging them one by one
- Flicker Strike, Shield Charge

It can seem much harder than it is depending how your gear is for your level. If your gear is behind and it takes more than 3 hits of a main dps skill, then it will seem much harder because they take forever to die.

These monsters are very gear-dependent, if you don't have 75% cold resist they will smash your face in and perma freeze you.

It's pretty rough when you start a new map and these things just appear out of nowhere. My Shadow usually only walks around with 50% CR and a ring I carry around to switch into for cold enemies. But sometimes these things pop up and I'm not ready and get frozen over and over. But once I don the ring, they're push overs.

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anubite wrote:

These monsters are very gear-dependent, if you don't have 75% cold resist they will smash your face in and perma freeze you.

It's pretty rough when you start a new map and these things just appear out of nowhere. My Shadow usually only walks around with 50% CR and a ring I carry around to switch into for cold enemies. But sometimes these things pop up and I'm not ready and get frozen over and over. But once I don the ring, they're push overs.

It is not only CR that affects if the freeze you but you max life. More max life and you need less CR to not get frozen. Not sure if ES protects against freeze in any way.

Once you get decent gear they are pretty simple to deal with. My only complaint is they cripple my computer. I run everything in the game fine with a decent frame rate, those things and the act 2 boss damn near freeze my computer.

One of my life flasks increases my resistances, another dispels chilled and frozen, and a third is a magic one that heals for an extra amount, which is almost my entire health bar.

The very first thing I do when I see these guys is drink the big flask. At the very least, if my chilled and frozen flask is empty, if my other defenses don't work, at least I'm getting healed over time if frozen.

Definitely needs a cooldown.

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Fayul wrote:

Side note: if we get a cd on coldsnap why don't they???

Because life's not fair. Even a fake one on a continent full of things that want to kill you.