In wars, the point tends to be covered in ice storms, ice showers etc.
Ultimate Chill (Ice Gauntlet Skill Tree Perk) does the following:
Ice gauntlet abilities chill targets, increasing ice damage dealt to the target by 25% for 3s
My understanding is that this is 25% from all weapons, which is why those fighting a lot on point may opt to slot an ice gem in their weapon. The next update ice attunement as with other attunement perks will be on a 1sec CD making ice damage even more potent.
If you have multiple players throwing ice abilities on point especially ice storm and ice showers the uptime on targets being “chilled” is going to be most of the time.
Should there be some consideration for this or dimenishing returns? Thoughts?
There is going to be so much damage next patch. It’s not going to just be your concerns about ultimate chill. Might as well wait and see what happens, and balance the really out of control stuff, lol. It’s going to be interesting for sure.
Whole purpose of PTR testing and advance feedback on forums is we can discuss and test such things beforehand.
I’m just curious if players and devs find it odd that melee weapons can slot ice gems and benefit from ultimate chill to this degree with it only getting stronger as the ice attunement perks has its cd reduced.
Use Ice gems in your gear. Ice Conditoning is also coming out next patch. If you actually keep track you will see that many bruisers have swapped to Lightning and Arcane gems to dodge the people countering Ice. Its a constant cycle back and forth.
Fixed an issue where various abilities that spawned an entity not scaling gem perk and other status effect damage properly if the damage was triggered via the entity. (Sticky Bomb, Azoth Shrapnel Blast, etc.)
Will depend on how things function with this fix finally coming in. Fire Staff/IG w/ Ice Gem in FS, Empowering Fireball on weapon, proccing the Ultimate Frost debuff passive… LUL. Could be some considerable damage. A lot of things are likely “wait and see”, though I reckon that sticky bomb might be another outlier that will do a lot more than people will be happy about.