thanks for that. i think i got hung up in my head on getting all the phys to cold but pierce is not phys so not sure what i was doing. a lot of my conversions are useless. i was thinking the defense of the shield, and having a radient gem + the iskandras bonus buff was too good to pass up, and also TSS buff on the one hand im using going all into cold conversion was also too good to pass up. but if im not using tss for damage and just using it to proc crown then i guess it doesnt matter.
i know my belt needs an upgrade too, i was going to go with a kurn gurdle just to get something more stable. so many things i see people refering to are all high end mythic rng drops. im more so looking for something to aim for as a baseline to make farming things in ult/ascendent just doable. as right now it is not doable really. so the amulet someone suggested, and this weapon swap, are helpful, assuming the points i made above are just wrong and you still think the swords are better over all