Added Cold Damage vs Cold Penetration

For freezing pulse and herald of ice I was wondering which one would be better, focusing on cold damage and freeze, so I am more toward added cold damage with quality for freeze chance with freezing pulse and I would use cold penetration with herald of ice.

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_JuicE_ a écrit :

For freezing pulse and herald of ice I was wondering which one would be better, focusing on cold damage and freeze, so I am more toward added cold damage with quality for freeze chance with freezing pulse and I would use cold penetration with herald of ice.

Why do you want to support herald of ice with something that isn't reduced mana?

Cold Penetration is far far far better than added cold damage

Cold Pen for Freeze Pulse, Curse on Hit with the Herald.

Cold penetration is always better if you have to to make a choice between the two. For cold snap, it depends on what you want to do with it. If you just want to freeze, then you should focus on the duration and proliferation. So a four link would be Cold Snap>Cold Penetration>Cold Damage>Elemental Proliferation. Or Cold Snap>Cold Penetration>Curse On Hit>Temporal Chains.

For dealing damage with a lot of power charges or romira's banquet I would do Cold Snap>Cold Penetation>Increased Area>Concentrated Area.

If you can afford cold penetration on herald of ice, then why not. It's functionality is really to kill the mobs that didn't get killed by the cold snap so cold penetration can be over kill at that point.

Thanks for feedback I plan on using freezing pulse + cold pen + spell echo + faster casting + GMP + life leech. Herald of Ice + reduced mana + empower and still unsure thinking cold damage would be nice to freeze mobs from heralds aoe or I can use cold pen again not too sure.

Freezing Pulse needs Faster Projectiles if you want to have a decent clear speed.

For stuff like atziri it's fine, but for general mapping it will suck.

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H4NS a écrit :

Freezing Pulse needs Faster Projectiles if you want to have a decent clear speed.

For stuff like atziri it's fine, but for general mapping it will suck.

Just getting 20% quality on the gem and picking up the projectile speed node at the shadow start and/or the ranger start will make FP cover the entire screen already. It's not worth the gem slot.

Cold pen for damage. Added cold for utility. A Quality added cold is essentially a +% chance to freeze gem.

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JahIthBer89 a écrit :

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H4NS a écrit :

Freezing Pulse needs Faster Projectiles if you want to have a decent clear speed.

For stuff like atziri it's fine, but for general mapping it will suck.

Just getting 20% quality on the gem and picking up the projectile speed node at the shadow start and/or the ranger start will make FP cover the entire screen already. It's not worth the gem slot.

Well technically, it's not only about how far it travels. The faster it travels the more damage it does at distance = more potential clear speed. This guy has 8 challenges complete I'm inclined to think he has a decent idea about freeze pulse.