Asphyxia's Wrath is Pretty Durn Good

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BearCares wrote:

c) You're going to want a six link if you wish to move it to end game and maximize freeze time. You can simulate a six link with a 5 link Voll's or even a 5Link Thousand Ribbons. Because power charge on critical strike and elemental prolif are two supports you want to add to your main attack.

You can drop PCoC from your main link and have an Ice Spear + GMP + PCoC + Faster Casting (Spell Echo?) link. It almost always refreshes your charges in one cast.

I have 3 of these on Ambush, I'll trade 2 of them for a Drillneck.

I made a magic finder out of the quiver gloves combo. Not breaking any clear speed records but pretty damn safe. Works fantastic in groups as well. I tried linking chance to flee for shits and giggles, probably overkill.

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Opinionated wrote:

I made a magic finder out of the quiver gloves combo. Not breaking any clear speed records but pretty damn safe. Works fantastic in groups as well. I tried linking chance to flee for shits and giggles, probably overkill.

which gloves, these?

Hmm. how'd you get 23% chance to freeze? If I could replicate that I'd build around an RT build instead.

I get 24% freeze from:

5% from Freeze passive
8% from quiver
11% from frostbite curse

And the better your gear, more passives you have the more impressive hte freeze becomes due to higher cold damage, accuracy, crit and attack speed. With GG gear you will be in permafrost mode. Sadly I only have mediocre stuff. But I can still freeze lock merc Hillock at level 46 with the help of shockwave totem.

I'm retiring the build this league as I've had terrible luck with archer gear from the beginning of ambush. But if I were to play in a new league I'd buy an Asphyxia's off the first sucker willing to give it to me for a chaos or a fuse =p

Made a freeze-shock build using this:



Really wish the corruption was closer to 20%. Gonna go for the Berek's grip race reward this season which seems perfect for that build. It's been really fun up to now but it's starting to go south since monster life is increasing rapidly in high level maps and split arrow chain is diluting my damage too much, might rearrange my gems into a LA build.

Also, stuff like Torr Olgosso absolutely destroys me.

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enveratise wrote:

I'm not yet sold. it feels like if you go crit, you're just better off relying on the asenath's gloves along with hatred and/or Ice shot if you want to get that prolonged offscreen freeze, bypassing the quiver itself for one with increased crit chance and some survivability. it's also really nagging me that the chance to freeze is not really useful if you went with a crit build. that's just me though.

Well, that's the thing with ARPG's in general. Nothing is better than outright killing enemies.

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vulcanfury12 wrote:

Well, that's the thing with ARPG's in general. Nothing is better than outright killing enemies.

I meant critting with ice damage always freezes enemies. chance to freeze applies to non - crit damage sources, thus making the mod almost useless with a high crit build.