Wizard Guide: Frost Build
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It took me a bit to grind my levels out, but I’m finally here and happy to share my lovely build. My build is a wizard build focusing on a number of aspects, so let’s dive in. Let’s start with my active spells.
Skills
As a mage, I get two schools. I chose Ice and Fire respectively.
- Ice: Blizzard & Frost Shield
- Fire: Wyrm’s Breath & Fire Enchant
And here’s my list of passives:
- Frost Armor
- Freeze
- Reactive Shield
- Mana Absorption or (optionally) Mana Fountain
Equipment
Now let’s move on to equipment.
Me personally, my armor is to be desired, but that’s fine by me. What I focus on are the weapons that make this build fun, which is a Tome & Crystal Blade, respectively.
Explanation
Now the fun part. Explaining this! So right off the bat, my primary skill set is based around the Ice school of Magic. So with Freeze, if you have an enemy frost bitten, you have a chance to freeze them solid for a few seconds.
This is where Blizzard and Time come in.
Blizzard is a lovely AoE spell that damages over time, and the damage ticks at a decent pace too. This is where I love using something like the tome.
Tomes let you store the last spell you cast while it was equipped (so you can swap weapons and cast other spells without worrying about the tome skill being replaced).
Now, if you have good aim and really high casting speed, the idea is you cast Blizzard twice rapid-fire, increasing the chances to proc freeze.
And if freeze procs, the enemy is stuck standing in Blizzard’s AoE (which could give you time to cast that second Blizzard or to attack).
A helpless enemy completely stuck in ice in a DoT AoE that lasts quite a decent bit of time. Hence why it’s an Ice Coffin, since this build revolves around reducing enemy mobility.