I’ve been having a blast with this build. High speed, high freeze CC, ultra-fast Ice Talon spam, gorgeous ice effects dropping all the time, such a blast! I understand the criticism of wereraven casters being a bit on the weak side compared to werewolf builds, but I’ve been able to clear bosses and dungeons solo on Ascendent with this build thus far. Would be nice to have some way to add at least a little weapon damage to Ice Talons, but otherwise I think it’s mostly in a good place.
Share your wereraven builds with me, especially cold-based ones, I’d love to see what some of you have come up with thus far.
Here is my second FoA character, Frostburn/Cold Eldrun Primalist (its about 90% Lightning Damage converted to Cold Damage).
Sustain is not good (without ADctH. only potion, cry, and some “Restores Health X%/Y Per Second”), but built for the Kite-tactics.
(remaining 1 skill point is from Allostria, it will spend for Battle Surge)
I checked your buid I think you spread a bit too much into damage spell Wereraven/Devastation/Olexa/Trozan.
At least from what I tested having wereraven 26/16 and glacial talons 22/12 + Any cold spell work wonder. (if you want to use wereraven most of the time ofc)
I think with evoker that weapon can be quite good :
But I dont have a evoker yet to test he is currently leveling ^^
Wanted to try the aether wereraven but it seems cold wereraven have a lot of possibility with evoker too.
Since you’re leaning a bit into lightning, though without any lightning RR this path should work nicely. Since you don’t have any weapon damage added to your attacks so Viper is kinda useless. Also, it should now be more tanky and it has far, far more skill points available. Oh and OFF doesn’t work that well against bosses, which is why usually you see far more Cold CT builds posted ever than OFF
And add missing flat -RR via Crown
Plus 1000 more health :3
Looses some Wereraven stuff, but TSS is such a hard hitter it needs to be invested in properly. Also IEE line is rather potent, providing energy regen, OA, Frostburn and +Crit damage.
Lastly, I usually usually use Chariot of the Dead because it majorly increases OA and it’s proc is very good these days, but if you find Giant works for you then that’s all goo.
Yeah I agree it’s surprisingly not squishy! I suppose my original post said fragile because of the low total health, but with the constant healing from Rallying Cry and high DA it feels pretty tough for a caster. One of the reasons I’m spread out is I enjoy using many things to try them out and see what feels good, and on this build I’ve been playing with my husband a lot so I don’t need to min-max for solo play. And yes I had a look at the Olexra’s scepter, definitely want to build with it too at some point. Ty for the response =)
Thanks! I missed the Stormfang Cowl! That’s definitely a cool addition to this build/play style, glad you pointed that out!
And no I’m trying not to lean into lightning at all with this build, it’s basically pure cold. Also, I didn’t know that Viper’s RR only applied to skills that had % weapon damage, are you sure about that? And I mostly agree with your other points, I’ll take them into consideration for future variations of this build.
