Doesn’t matter much but go for Death’s Vigil which provide more for cold damage in the beginning.
Deep SR Kuba on single rr cold builds 
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Excellent build, as always Ford… I’d been playing with a 2-weapon Mageslayer Spellbreaker, alternating around Ascendant Conduits, Spectral Bludgeons, and Ugdenbog Chillstrifes as the mood took me (stacking Aeon’s for some truly epic freezes), using Berenoth, but with that huge boost to the Olexra’s Chill, I find your build is much more consistent. About the only change I’d suggest is putting Blizzard against Blade Spirit and Rumour against ABB. I also would rather do a minimal investment in TSS instead of Ring of Steel, and use that to trigger Raise the Dead to open engagement with a couple of skeletons while at a distance.
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Such a nice build. Thanks for showing it.
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What do you think about switching one Olexra’s Chill for Herald of Amatok (maybe with a little skillpoint investment into Blade Spirits?) or Beacon of Winter’s Veil?
Any alternatives for Alkamos rings? Band of Eternal Haunt, Starfire, Chillsurge, Elemental Balance set?
I doubt it will fit here without changing the playstyle drastically.
Might work after buffs but you’ll lose ABB points and mod, plus it has physical base and you can reach %55 ish conversion at most. But it’s frostburn duration can work in this build.
Alkamos rings provides good stats and key proc but you can use elemental balance rings if you don’t have them.
Ahoy! I’m a relatively new player and I’ve been bouncing around a lot of cold builds because i find it the most enticing (infiltrator, spellbreaker, reaper, sorcerer, even cold blademaster) but I lack clarity on end game viability of some of these builds.
I sort of understand the big tests to be SR depth, Crucible viability, and Celestial killing power. It seems like it’s super rare for any build to excel in all of those, but curious where this one falls in there? If a guide only mentions SR does that mean it’s probably not as strong in Crucible or taking on the big Celestial baddies?
Crucible speedrunners often push build’s damage to the limit which can mean too little Physical resistance or other things to beat Callagadra for example. But I think they can most often than not be adjusted to this job if you sacrifice some DPS.
Thank you for the context! So in other words, it’s very unlikely that any given build could be a ‘one size fits all’ for cruci & SR 90+ & celestial killing?
I think there are many builds that can do that and there would be more if people care / prioritize being able to do all these. In my opinion. I assume being fit for Crucible is beating it consistently and not necessarily be super fast.
Any tips for end game weapons before getting the BIS weapons?
I’m having very bad luck with those.
This is a good build to use until then: [1.1.9.4] No Set DW Spectral Longsword Cold SS Spellbreaker. SR 90(ish)
Well there is no chance you can play this style without Mageslayer Set + Olexra’s Chill + Ilgorr’s Eternal Curse efficiently but yes you can farm Spectral Longswords and focus SS while you’re farming.
Thanks, was hoping there was some obscure item I had overlooked, but I guess Longswords it is. I lost two Olexra’s on my previous char (only play hc) and now I’m out. Also don’t have any Alkamos rings atm, that will be fun to farm.
Ok I just have to vent for a bit. I’m doing fine with this build while farming with a chillstrife and a beacon, it’s really fun to play. But I don’t know how many Alkamos runs I’ve done now, it’s a lot, and not a single purple ring. Know how many Soulrends I have? I mean the BIS weapons will drop in SR eventually, got a very lazy pet build for that, but I want the RINGS.
All that said, mad props for the build, it’s very fun.
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Weird, the drop rate of the rings got increased with the 1.1.9.7 patch. Yes it as pretty pain in the a** before but it should be better. Nevertheless pray for RNGesus 
I know, I’ve been playing casually on and off since about vanilla release, and I have never gotten a purple Alkamos ring. It’s gotten into this spite realm where it’s just taunting me to manufacture it, but that’s not why I play this game. So I won’t.
Anyway, cheers for caring.
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And I just ripped it in SR getting the last skill points. OMG I just hate this game and love it at the same time. I was so careful. But then cornered. FFS.
At least I didn’t loose any rings.
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I’m having another go at this guy, it’s so fun to play.
Question about constallations though, is the speed from jackal that crucial? I’m thinking diminishing returns at the top there. If not, you could drop jackal and lantern, and get candle to get elemental storm. And max out ghoul for some extra def.
I’m kind of new at trying to theorycraft this game so be kind, but why would this be a bad idea?
I think it’s important. Also you need Revenant’s Adcth aswell.