Hey guys, was wondering if anyone can point me to a guide that focuses on this tree. I haven't seen builds built more deeper here compared to Inferno and Storm Tree builds. Also, what spec would most benefit investing into this.
To start of, there are of course the basics. Barrier, Guardian Spirit, Energy Barrage, Immolate, Flashpoint and Clean Burn, and Winter's Grasp. After that I don't know how to proceed.
Ice Mage and Spec.
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1G86
, janv. 09 2015 09:52
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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 10:26
goofyomnivore
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KE can get perma damage reduction by casting Ice Wall near them. Rift Mage you could probably sustain the mana costs of Blizzard, for example (Pull of Abyss -> Blizzard -> Frost Step -> spam skills) you will probably be tanky enough with them being chilled and getting the damage reduction. I dunno its a utility tree. Fire and Storm outclass it in damage by quite a bit.
i honestly haven't used frost much other than fade step. I tried the KE - Ice Wall build on Vivienne since I like to keep her all ice magey. It was okay, and you were quite tanky; and I think you could main tank on it if you want to do that. You would just need minus threat skills on your mages / rogues.
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Posté 09 janvier 2015 - 11:02
JaegerBane
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The major issue with the Winter tree isn't so much that it isn't a damage tree, it's that the skills tend to be extremely situational. You often have to carefully engineer a whole situation just to gain any benefit at all.
Fade Step is generally considered one of the best spells in the game - it's free, it's applicable in virtually every scenario and upgraded, it's actually one of the best sources of frost damage. Winter's Grasp is a solid crowd control ability - arguarbly the best of the low-level cc abilities - but it's upgrade is dubious as its damage is very low.
Below this things start to go down the toilet. Winter Stillness offers a good mana regen buff on paper, but in my experience, staying still is not practical. Impacts, knock downs, having to retreat - even casting certain spells breaks it. Mana Surge is another good one on paper but in practice, waiting to have someone break your barrier at close range is too much faff. The ice spell passive is also ok if you've invested in the tree.
At this point the tree just gets silly. Ice armour, ice wall and ice mine all theoretically can make you way tougher but require you to carefully set up various walls and mines and resolutely stick to them like glue, otherwise the house of cards falls down and all you've done is waste mana.
Blizzard is just a troll from the devs. It doesn't work properly and blasts your mana to pieces.
All in all, the tree starts out ok and gets progressively worse the further you go down it. It's actually really odd bioware made the winter tree so rubbish - frost has generally been one of the stronger elements in dragon age games.
Fade Step is generally considered one of the best spells in the game - it's free, it's applicable in virtually every scenario and upgraded, it's actually one of the best sources of frost damage. Winter's Grasp is a solid crowd control ability - arguarbly the best of the low-level cc abilities - but it's upgrade is dubious as its damage is very low.
Below this things start to go down the toilet. Winter Stillness offers a good mana regen buff on paper, but in my experience, staying still is not practical. Impacts, knock downs, having to retreat - even casting certain spells breaks it. Mana Surge is another good one on paper but in practice, waiting to have someone break your barrier at close range is too much faff. The ice spell passive is also ok if you've invested in the tree.
At this point the tree just gets silly. Ice armour, ice wall and ice mine all theoretically can make you way tougher but require you to carefully set up various walls and mines and resolutely stick to them like glue, otherwise the house of cards falls down and all you've done is waste mana.
Blizzard is just a troll from the devs. It doesn't work properly and blasts your mana to pieces.
All in all, the tree starts out ok and gets progressively worse the further you go down it. It's actually really odd bioware made the winter tree so rubbish - frost has generally been one of the stronger elements in dragon age games.
