Blizzard Leveling

If you're looking for a great starter build, Blizzard is one of the strongest and leveling builds and this guide will teach you all you need to know to hit the ground running and do some massive early damage!

IMPORTANT - Blizzard will not unlock until you have spent at least 16 skill points. You can use Fireball and Frost Bolt to kill enemies until then. Make sure you pay attention to your Seasonal Ranks for additional Skill Points to unlock Blizzard as early as possible.

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1. Blizzard is your main source of damage until you get Glacial Aspect, then Blizzard will spawn Ice Spikes which becomes your new main source of damage.
2. Invoked Familiar is there to add 10% Frost Skill damage.
3. Summoned Ice Blades provide cooldown reduction for skills.
4. Ice Armor provides barriers and Shimmering Ice Armor helps reduce it's cooldown by spending Mana.
5. Teleport is for movement and creating crackling for Convulsions
6. Flame Shield is a staple in survivability, granting you 2 seconds of immunity from all damage sources.

Build Overview

Defenses

• Aspect of the Unwavering when taking damage there's a chance to reset the Cooldown of a Defensive skill which are Ice Armor, Flame Shield and Teleport
• Aspect of Disobedience gives you armor by attacking enemies with any form of damage or by taking damage from enemies. You'll need to do damage at least once every 4 seconds to maintain the extra Armor it gives you.
• Aspect of the Deflecting Barrier this gives you a chance to gain a Barrier when an enemy attacks you.

Offense

• Glacial Aspect give your Blizzard Ice Spikes that spawn periodically. This becomes your main source of damage. This is one of the most IMPORTANT aspects for this build to do some serious damage.
• Aspect of Biting Cold makes your Frost skills deal more damage and have a chance to apply Vulnerable.
• Edgemaster's Aspect increases the damage of your next skill cast based on how much Mana you have.
• Storm Swell Aspect increases all of your damage while Ice Armor is active.
• Aspect of the Frozen Wake whenever you have Ice Armor you spawn additional Ice Spikes and it also increased the damage that your Ice Spikes do.
• Aspect of Frozen Memories makes Avalanche give your Frost Skills 30% resource cost reduction and it increases the damage you do to Vulnerable enemies.

Mana Management

• Wizard's Blizzard will give you Mana Generation while Blizzard is active.
• You can add Lum to any run combination to help offset Mana costs.
• Because we are using a Two-handed Staff you can also add the affix for Resource Cost Reduction.

Runes

• Yax + Lum for Mana generation.
• Yax + Tec for extra Area of Effect damage.
• Cir + Ceh gives us Spirit Wolves that apply Freeze for Hoarfrost and Vulnerable for 20% damage.

Dungeon Aspects

• Aspect of Biting Cold: Forgotten Depths
• Edgemaster's Aspect: Oldstones
• Aspect of Inner Calm: Raethwind Wilds
• Aspect of Disobedience: Halls of the Damned
• Storm Swell Aspect: Onyx Hold
• Aspect of the Deflecting Barrier: Lost Keep
• Aspect of the Bounding Conduit: Komdor Temple
• Aspect of Voracious Rage: Hallowed Ossuary
• Prodigy's Aspect: Witchwater

Dropped Aspects

• Glacial Aspect
• Aspect of Frozen Memories
• Aspect of the Frozen Wake
• Aspect of the Frozen Tundra
• Snowguard's Aspect
• Aspect of Biting Cold
• Aspect of Mind's Awakening

Leveling Walkthrough Document

Seasonal Leveling Strategy

Testing and Research Documents

Updated and optimized for Season 12