Well, sadly we don’t have a Santa Set and we won’t be getting Asterkarn under the tree this year. So we’ll have to make do. Post your chilly cold or sparkly elemental builds. It’s the reason for the season. Memes welcome! Here’s a couple of mine to start.
Typically if you want cold grenado the best way is some kind of Moonglow + Rimetongue combo but I’m stubborn and wanted to try it with cold canister bomb, so here’s a non-set version. It can complete SR 30 but dies often due to lack of consistent recovery. More suitable for lower shards.
Santa’s a little depressed this year because the reindeer came down with a case of void corruption, so Mrs. Claus has to put in some work.
This is my attempt at getting in on the sigil spam fun. I think it’s a testament to the strength of it that I can throw this together and it mostly succeeds. I swear I had a Chronomancer’s Bonewall somewhere but I must have vendored it by mistake. Wasn’t quite sure what to do with some of the other slots. Still a work in progress.
Also had to turn down particle settings because good god this will burn out your retinas.
Ok this is going on the naughty list. I didn’t even bother to record any footage. Just doesn’t feel great to play at all. Maybe Alkamos Scythe is better suited for cadence focus, I dunno. If somebody has a better working spec, I’d like to see it.
Also the Alkamos Warsword as well. Has anyone made a decent build with that thing?
I was thinking of just swapping out living armor for chains and go down to 92% armor but I could try fateweaver’s too.
As for the BM, I tried a few different variations like dropping cadence and pumping RoS/ABB but it’s not enough to make up for the flat damage loss from deadly momentum and blitz is already at a disadvantage here without a shield.
I think the blitz CDR mod could be bumped to 25% chance for more consistency. Maybe I’ll do a feedback request on it.
somewhat piano but at least Ice Wyrm’s Breath is a proc now
may change devotion (although it looks very clean now) but the gear is definitely nailed down
I hope PB + WoR + Potion + Blade Barrier on 22 Seal without continuous heal will be enough to survive. BB should feel nice to use with a lot of passive Frostburn, Blade Spirit and Whirlpool damage
tbf I haven’t played it yet but spent a ton of time on it already so it should happen at some point
Guilty although I have a variant with just one of them and Eternal Haunt for even more RR for try-hards having good Pierce → Cold rolls on the rest of the gear
As far as builds go, I never got around to doing Cold Doom Bolt…wonder if Chillwhisper is the way to go for some consistent damage on the side (Blade Spirits).
I remember 2h Cold DB builds with Weapon Damage mods from Chaos items the most. But both me and their authors might have been biased. Also allows you to leech from Doom Bolt but Blade Spirits with Chillwhisper can do that too.
With the Acid to Cold Conversion, you could also build around Yugol’s Hunger Relic for Spin 2 Win. https://www.grimtools.com/calc/4ZDYlXpN (I’d probably swap the pants for Grava’Thul’s Legguards or Solael-Sect Legguards to fix resistances).
I don’t spend much time doing endgame optimization so consider these back of the napkin suggestions.
Cold BA could be interesting with built-in flat RR but lack of attack speed then becomes more apparent. Would need a different roll like Shattering. If I drop a different scythe I’ll get around to it eventually.
