Can you freeze bosses?

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mark1030 wrote:

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Antigegner wrote:

so items like this:

are basically not interesting anymore cuz killing trash mobs can be done with other stuff that is more usefull for bosses as well.

You realize that's talking about you being frozen, right? In the context it seems you might think it's while enemies are frozen.

yes, my bad, sorry.

How can it be useful with me being frozen?

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Antigegner wrote:

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mark1030 wrote:

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Antigegner wrote:

so items like this:

are basically not interesting anymore cuz killing trash mobs can be done with other stuff that is more usefull for bosses as well.

You realize that's talking about you being frozen, right? In the context it seems you might think it's while enemies are frozen.

yes, my bad, sorry.

How can it be useful with me being frozen?

there is no way to make use of this item in current game. It will be useable in 2.2 when GGG will relase next expansion

you can still realistically freeze bosses into solid blocks of ice.

but you now need at-least 2 people doing it.

1 person who stacks crit with their primary damage source as cold to act as the large base damage needed to overcome the large hp pools of bosses.

2 a dedicated support curser that can thoroughly obliterate resistances.

a 70% curse effectiveness curser with EE could

lower by 50% from ee
lower by 50% from elemental weakness
lower it by 45% by frostbite
increase the damage dealt via assassins mark
increase the duration of the freeze via temporal chains.

thats right you can if you were a quad curser worth it's salt take almost 150% cold resistance from bosses ( its over 200% for trash which is hilarious, and pointless because there is a cap to how low you can go with resists )

i have been in parties with the classic nado shot phys rangers where we froze bosses up to and including the jungle vally boss in to solid blocks of ice.

No that would be lame as hell. Like when CM wiz was freezing ubers all boss.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKj-7Me1y34

I think you might be able to if you build a glass canon self-cast cold crit discharge with EE ball lighting CoH (more than one curse ofc) to destroy resistances. Problem is consistently discharging fast enough to keep the freeze always up

I don't believe there is a minimum resistance floor.
you can give mobs negative resistance without a cap.

someone please correct me if im wrong.

Can you no longer proliferate freeze?

i thought they nerfed that a while ago when they addressed the freeze mine prolif issue

I've as good as perma frozen death and taxes boss during 2.0 on my freezing arc miner, while grouped with aura build (boosted wrath) and multicurser. I'm not sure if noone in group was shocking boss, but I think not. The group was not purpose build to do that map, but it came up as mission from a zana in a map. So it's still possible, it's just nowhere as easy as it used to be.

I remember being able to freeze pretty much everything in rampage on a simple straight forward crit multi ice spear build, where I would do my own double cursing. Compared to my current arc miner, the damage of that old ice spear build would have been peanuts.

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RunawayFixer wrote:

I remember being able to freeze pretty much everything in rampage on a simple straight forward crit multi ice spear build, where I would do my own double cursing. Compared to my current arc miner, the damage of that old ice spear build would have been peanuts.

Yeah, I was freezing middle tier Map Bosses on my non-Crit Glacial Hammer build in Rampage, so I'm surprised at how everyone is saying it's nearly impossible now; did they nerf Freeze on Bosses or something since then?

I know they changed the minimum requirement for Status Ailments, but shouldn't that make it EASIER to get them on Mobs/Players now? :S