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Levelling Frost Mage Huge Freeze/Shatter

presentationSorceress
Creator
Starter
0.1 Early Access
Updated on Jan 7, 2025
Jan 7, 2025

Build Overview

Welcome to MrRonit's Frost Mage Levelling Build!

This is the perfect build for beginners looking to get into the sorceress harnessing all the best facets of a typical frost mage - chills, freezes, and huge shatter damage! Using Frost Bomb we can do huge damage early on, and then we use Ice Nova defensively to freeze incoming enemies. Cold Snap allows us to shatter enemies instantly for even more damage!

This is great for act 1 until around level 20!

Here is the level 20-40 version which includes Frostbolt Cold Snap combo

Edit: Use this Fireball Frost Wall Hybrid build for Act 3 to endgame - click here. Below endgame build has been nerfed

NERFED NOW - Here is the ENDGAME (lvl 30-80) Cast on Freeze Comet Version!

Equipment

item
1
item
1
Equipment Priority
0
Main Hand
Gelid Staff

Gelid staff provides Freezing Shards skill which consumes no mana and is amazing for freezing enemies early on!

No other real equipment requirement - just prioritise cold damage, +1/2 to cold spells, spell damage on weapons

On armour look for life, resistances, energy shield and mana affixes

Skill Gems

1

Punch

Item

Punch
2

Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb
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supportspellcascadeplayer
3

Ice Nova

Ice Nova
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supportunleashplayer
4

Solar Orb

Solar Orb
5

Cold Snap

Cold Snap
Gem Priority
+4

Passive Tree

main:
123
123
set 1:
20
20
set 2:
20
20

How it Plays

1) Use Frost Bomb and Solar Orb first

2) Apply Ice Nova to Freeze enemies in place where Frost Bomb and Solar Orb are

3) Spam Cold Snap + Ice Nova

4) Rinse and Repeat

How it Works

Cold Damage applies chill and freeze - killing frozen enemies shatters them causing even more damage.

Freeze is very powerful for early game CCs and can even CC bosses as well. Early levels freezing shards is pretty good but once you have most of the above skills unlocked you don't need it.

Frost Bomb does HUGE damage and we make it larger with the Magnified Effect support gem. Solar Orb ar adds fire damage and ignite DoT.

Then we use Ice Nova to root enemies in place so they get hit by both frost bomb and solar orb. Finish them off with Cold Snap


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