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[Zahnen]

IMO the best Ice Mage is going Full Fire or Lightning with a splash of ice.  Honestly the whole tree is lackluster IMO.  

 

Winter's Grasp is VERY expensive on a long CD and does very low damage... But it does offer Snap CC and the earliest/easy combo for rupture or shatter (two best combos).

 

Winter's Stillness is good in theory but many spells cause you to take a step which cancels its effect not to mention some fights you just have to keep moving.

 

Ice Wall is very situational.  If your clever with it then it becomes very powerful - by that I mean you get really good at it's placement to wall off melee/archers and force them where you want them to go.  It takes a bit of practice to learn the enemy AI and how to place the walls.  But at the end of the day I still spec'd out of it.  Firewall is much better.

 

If Ice Mine was a long term CC I'd love it but the setup time, mana cost, CD, and how deep it is in the ice tree means its not worth it... also my opinion.

 

Now the Ice Armor is VERY good if you are also wearing good armor (aka Silverite Heavy Armor).  You will take 1 damage from most hits while it is active which is pretty bad ass for a mage.  But that means you need to keep some cold effect active around you at all times.  Easier said than done.

[Matth85]

The problem with the Winter tree is that it is investment heavy. As Zahnen said, Ice Armor is the only decent thing at the end of the Winter tree, and to sustain that you pretty much need Blizzard -- which in turn means you can't really use mana for much. 

 

I must say Winter Stillness is better than you give it credit for Zahnen! If it was just the mana, I would agree. Heck -- I used to agree with that statement. However, knowing it also grants 30% CD and it only takes 3 second to activate? It becomes amazing. Not to mention there are onnly 2 spells that breaks it; Energy Barrage and Fire Mine. Granted, your 2 main damage abilities -- but they are not your only abilities. By rotating them correctly, you can have winter stillness up every time they are on CD. Efficiently cutting 30% of the time off, and gaining huge amount of mana back, so you can cast them as they get off.

[Zahnen]

The problem with the Winter tree is that it is investment heavy. As Zahnen said, Ice Armor is the only decent thing at the end of the Winter tree, and to sustain that you pretty much need Blizzard -- which in turn means you can't really use mana for much. 

 

I must say Winter Stillness is better than you give it credit for Zahnen! If it was just the mana, I would agree. Heck -- I used to agree with that statement. However, knowing it also grants 30% CD and it only takes 3 second to activate? It becomes amazing. Not to mention there are onnly 2 spells that breaks it; Energy Barrage and Fire Mine. Granted, your 2 main damage abilities -- but they are not your only abilities. By rotating them correctly, you can have winter stillness up every time they are on CD. Efficiently cutting 30% of the time off, and gaining huge amount of mana back, so you can cast them as they get off.

 

This is all true.  If you can keep it up for the big spells (specifically fire mine) then it is a good passive - but that's using it as a Dip and not as an "Ice Mage" sense it doesn't synergize well with the ice tree itself (more mana maybe?).  

 

If your using it for the CD effect on the "big stuff" then really all that means is that you haven't been chased away or cast a barrage recently.  Pretty easy to do if you focus just your mage.  And it's definitely worth a 2 point dip once you've gotten upgraded Firemine or Static Field (or both)... Winter's Grasp has it's moments so it's not the worst skill tax.   I personally find it to require too much micromanagement to take sooner but I'm lazy.  OP may not be.  My preferred style is no pausing and swapping control around with 50% focus on my Inquisitor.

 

Any way that is kinda off topic.  As a pure ice mage it is better than I previously gave it credit for.  IMO its more of a dip passive.