Cold Phantasmal Blades items and Harra's Artifice set could get some buffs

That’s a very poor performance for a dedicated set tho. Like piss poor. As banana mentioned, a build with non-set items built for spam Cold PB is much faster (and thus much safer).

And those pilots who will struggle to maintain the same speed will have more problems with survivability as well.

And if Cold cooldown PB was a viable playstyle I would be glad to play it and even make builds with it. But wait, I have already made Spellbreaker that had Cold PB and it was 2 years ago.. Yes, it’s not full Harra cd PB, but the skill just doesn’t have what it takes to be CD nuke. It’s a okayish support spell to spread Rumour and to heal up.

As DMT pointed out, it has to be because PB is a focused attack and it lacks dots. Flat DOT damage that we have on our char can be applied with a white attack so mentioning it is a bit irrelevant here.

So for cooldown PB Harra buff I would suggest:

  • Change flat Cold bonuses to flat Frostburn bonuses
  • Add enough weapon damage so it has above 100% so flat dots can be applied fully
  • Throw in a defensive stat bonus to set bonuses because right now it’s a bit of a poverty set bonus situation with 80 OA/5 energy regen/14% Casting speed. Like two-thirds of these bonuses are not super crucial for a build with CD PB (casting speed is always welcome tho, but Harra builds don’t really have heavy rotation because they lack skill points and Spellbreakers are already loaded on casting speed).