[1.1.5.1] Freeza's Tanky Frostmage [Spellbreaker]

Tanky Frostmage able to do Story on Ultimate and Crucible on Gladiator. Though a party for Crucible is adviced. This is a build for people who want to freeze the whole screen (except nemesis and unstoppable heroes), facetank bosses or multiple pre-expansion nemesis and look at pleasing 360° spell effects. No guaranty for hardcore viability.

This build combines survivability with lots of trigger damage, cooldown and cast speed. It pairs well with parties focused on fire and physical damage.

Gameplay involves spamming skills, procing stuff and spamming Chillspikes of Seal of Night in between. If you like face to face conversations with mob hordes while drinking some area of effect damage, then this build is for you. The build is hard to master, you will have to move at some point, find the sweetspot between face tanking/timing survivals and sometimes moving (you will die to e.g. Fissure).

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NOTE Patch [1.1.2.2]: Build got impacted by Iskandra Set overhaul, thus lost a lot of tankyness. It will never be as good as before..
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Pro

• tanky - shields, dodge, damage mitigation
  
• lots of crowd control
  
• good party buffs/debuffs
  
• good damage
  
• double emergency button (Mirror of Ereoctes and Blade Barrier)
  
• no energy problems (Harp Devotion)

Cons

• RIP GPUs
  
• Cold/Frost resistent mobs (Yetis, Undead, Human Mages) take a long time to kill (we do have some pierce damage and Nullification for it)
  
• heavy button usage or skill spamming involved (good training for 10 finger typing)
  
• hard to master - might take a while to get used to, you have to time your survival skills - otherwise you're dead

Rashalga, the Mad Queen[www.grimtools.com]

• Cold - Main damage
  
• Frostburn - Main damage
  
• Elemental
  
• Pierce

• Don't get hit - dodge, defensive ability, reduction to enemies offensive ability
  
• Life regeneration - atleast for a mage ...
  
• Active heals - Dryad devotion and Pneumatic Burst
  
• High max resistance - minimum 83%
  
• Shields - Diamond Component, Crab, Maiven's Sphere (max level), Ereoctes, Fateweaver, Seal of Ancestry, Blade Barrier, Turtle Shell)
  
• Debuffing - everything around you

• Chillspikes (default spam)
  
• Olexra's Flash Freeze (~18m range)
  
• Veil of Shadow - debuffs, damage
  
• Trozan Skyshard - for triggering Elemental Storm Devotion
  
• Blade Spirit - just for triggering Blizzard Devotion

I suggest linking Chillspikes to right mouse button and Pneumatic Burst to mouse wheel.

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There are a couple of sets like Mageslayer etc. those seem like a good option. They are good, however they make the build squishy. The build used to depend on a full Iskandra's set, that made us tanky, even with a low HP pool. *Thinks about what happened to Iskandra* - Iskandra became a Trozan set in patch 1.1.2.2., that made it obsolete and total garbage for this build's cause. You can substitute Alkamos Rings with Eternal Haunt. As prefix/suffix get +Poison Resistance and Olexra -% Freeze Duration. You're looking for one of these Monster Infrequent prefixes, depending on your preferred tankyness either "Magi's" (+Maiven Points) or "Frostburn" (granted proc). Get "of the Elements" as suffix.
Use e.g. Olexra as a substitution until you find a good Chillstrife Olexra's Chill[www.grimtools.com]. Where the hell do I get this? The weapon drops at:

• Larria, the Hexxer[www.grimtools.com]
  
• Janaxia, the Betrayer[www.grimtools.com]

It might be tempting to replace these, I did and I switched back... The -10% Attack Speed reduction are superb. Based on Donoghu's suggestion in the comments, you might want to try out the rare Wradlith's Bulwark as shield instead of my choice at the time. Seems in the years I didn't play a cool change came up, here is Donoghu's suggestion:

[...] using a Wradlith's Bulwark. It's a rare Cold variant of the Bulwark shield dropped occasionally by certain ghost-type warriors so it's quite a lot easy to farm (in comparison to Legendary equipment) and it has higher stats then the Mythical Gravetouch (well, the level 96 version does), and buff exactly the 3 skills you need buff:
+ 3 to Olexra's Flash Freeze skill
+ LOTS of direct +Cold damages to Olexra's Flash Freeze
+ -15% Cold Resist to Olexra's Flash Freeze (so, basically, +15% Cold Damages)
+ 3 to Night's Chill
+ LOTS of direct +Cold damages to VoS (it gets added Night's Chill)
+ -10% Cold Resist to VoS (so, basically, +10% Cold Damages to Night's Chill)
+ SOME of direct + Cold damages to IEE.
+ 80% Cold Damages to IEE.
+ 80% Frostburn Damage to IEE.

That's without considering how the shield also always gives +Cold Damages % from its random stats. Add a Coldstone to that shield and it's one hell of a +Cold Damage buffer for Olexra's Flash Freeze, VoS and IEE.

And, also you need to max IEE because it's affecting both Night's Chill and Olexra's Flash Freeze.
With the right random stats on the Wradlith's Bulwark, you can get +5 Night's Chill and +3 Olexra's Flash Freeze in total direct +Skill, so saving 5 additional skills points from the Mythical Gravetouch.

Devotion linking reasoning:

• Crab to an aura - permanent chance
  
• Turtle Shell to an aura - permanent chance
  
• Harp to an aura - permanent chance
  
• Leviathan to Olexra - no other option
  
• Blizzard to Blade Spirit - 3 spirits cause this to trigger as often as possible
  
• Elemental Storm to Trozan - is on primary targets, shoots over obstacles, freezes in place, hits fast -> for initial damage increase
  
• Dryad to Chillspikes - hits often, on primary target, an option is linking it to Olexra, however that doesn't always proc on some freeze immune mobs (some heroes, Nemesis, Bosses).

Gargabol, Heart of the Wild[www.grimtools.com]

Chapter about Nemesis and crucible specific help/points.

Most are a piece of cake. Except:

• Father Kymon, Avatar of Korvaak[www.grimtools.com] - Grasshopper likes to hop around and becomes dangerous due to defensive ability debuffs (approximately -500 DA).
  
• Archmage Aleksander[www.grimtools.com] - doable without death, beware green Meteor it is close to a one shot (high physical and aether damage, we do have good aether shields and res)
  
• Grava'Thul, the Voiddrinker[www.grimtools.com] - You die if you miss your timings while facetanking. I don't suggest kiting, not really needed and he won't stand in triggered aoe effects -> high damage loss.
  
• Kubacabra, the Endless Menace[www.grimtools.com] - facetankble for a time yes, killable like that ... sadly not due to his life leech. You need to kite to finish him, fast hit and run ...

• Father Kymon, Avatar of Korvaak[www.grimtools.com] - should be your primary target due to DA debuffs and jumping ...
  
• Zantarin, the immortal[www.grimtools.com] - actually the least dangerous for the build, always kill other enemies first
  
• Gannar'vakkar, King of the Sands[www.grimtools.com] - Scorpion with a huge range and damage, should be a primary target.

• Ravager[www.grimtools.com] - No no no.
  
• Lokarr[www.grimtools.com] - Doable, use the side areas to avoid his returning fire waves.
  
• Callagadra, Scion of the Sands[www.grimtools.com] - literally death from above, run ... srsly RUN don't even try it... NOPE
  
• Avatar of Mogdrogen[www.grimtools.com] - don't remember sry.

Shar'Zul, Harbringer of Chaos[www.grimtools.com]

While leveling I suggest using 1 Point aether beam for single target or a granted component skill from Chilled Steel.

1 point into night blade aura and pneumatic burst, rushing Olexra Flash Freeze max points should be your main focus to obliterate normal mobs on the screen. I would skill Blade Spirit when you get Blizzard devotion skill unlocked.

After that you should focus on cooldown reductions from arcanist, pneumatic burst (high boosts to both survivability and damage) and put some points into Maiven's Sphere. You should unlock Mirror of Ereoctes in between when you need it.

• take Crossroads blue, green, purple and yellow
  
• take Scholar's Light
  
• take Dryad
  
• take Eel
  
• take Amatok the Spirit of Winter
  
• take Quill
  
• take Rhowan's Crown
  
• take Empty Throne
  
• take Crab
  
• take Bard's Harp
  
• take Turtle Shell
  
• take Raven
  
• remove Crossroads blue, green, yellow
  
• remove Eel
  
• take Leviathan (6)

Valdaran, the Storm Scourge[www.grimtools.com]

Started working on this build since I bought this game in 12/2016.
This build originated as a melee frost/cold based melee assassin. At some point I came to love Olexra's Flash freeze and changed it to a full caster. I can't play default attack/melee based characters in this game .....

• 1.12.2019 - PATCH-Changes: updated build version, nothing notable changed
  
• 2.6.2019 - GUIDE-Changes due to patch:
  - changed everything see build
  - build did not digest the Iskandra change ... not as good as before
  
• 21.4.2019 - GUIDE-Changes: Updated Grimtools, Guide will follow. Changes so far:
  - Reduced Shattered Star to 1 Point
  - Removed all points from Merciless Reservoir
  - Put all Points into Arcane Will, since this increases our damage much more.
  
• 21.4.2019 - PATCH-Changes:
  - Removal of % Damage Reflection from Mirror of Ereoctes and Diamond Component
  - +2000 HP due to Spirit and Cunning now giving 1HP per Attribute Point -> All in all around 10,5k HP
  - Star Pact now transforms 15% Aether to Cold Damage -> Slightly more damage
  - Iskandra Amulet Cooldown Changes -> Slightly less cooldowns
  - 4 More Skillpoints from Shattered Realm/Expansion
  
• 26.8.2018 - GUIDE-Changes: Devotion and Guide update - Swapped Eel, Scythe points and 1 Leviathan with Turtle. This gives: More HP, 1 additional Shield, more DA and OA, more armor and slightly less damage.
  
• 22.7.2018 - GUIDE-Changes: added some boss and nemesis screenshots
  
• 19.7.2018 - PATCH-Changes: updated Build-Link to 1.0.6.1, no changes
  
• 12.7.2018 - GUIDE-Changes: reworked guide parts and structure
  
• 6.5.2018 - PATCH-Changes 1.0.5.1: updated Build-Link to 1.0.5.1, no changes
  
• 22.2.2018 - PATCH-Changes 1.0.5.0: We should get an overall damage buff according to changes hitting us:
  - Component - Seal of the Night: replaced % Offensive Ability with 44 Offensive Ability (looks like a nerf)
  - Component - Vengeful Wraith: increased % Frostburn Duration to 30% and Offensive Ability to 10 (buff)
  - Mythical Fateweaver's Leggings: added 20% Elemental Resist, removed % Lightning Resist (we had enough resistance to begin with ...)
  - Amatok: increased Frostburn Duration to 50% (buff)
  - Mental Alacrity: % Energy Cost Reduction now scales to 20% by rank 10, 30% by max ultimate rank. Added Energy bonus. (buff)
  - Overload: updated damage such that all 3 dots last 3 seconds (buff)
  
• 20.12.2017 - PATCH-Changes: Updated guide to patch version 1.0.4.0. The patch gave us small buffs: Increased Veil Cold damage on Gauntlets and Medal, increased 7% -> 15% Total Damage modified on Iskandra amulet, % Reduced Freeze and Petrify Duration on Phantasmal Armor Skill, 598 additional flat hp on Dryad devotion.
  
• 30.11.2017 - TWEAK: changed Augments and threw in some living armor for higher armor absorption - around 100 more OA (less chillspikes reflection) and around 17% more armor absorption resulting in more tankyness vs physical attacks. We do loose some flat paper damage (which is averaged by the higher OA though).
  
• 17.11.2017 - TWEAK: updated Build-Link to 1.0.3.0 Version, changed Lizard Devotion to Eel for higher defensive rating and flat dodge, we lose around 100hp and 40hp/s but gain around 8% more dodge
  
• 17.11.2017 - PATCH-Changes: we got around 15k dps more on Chillspikes and +400 armor and some higher damage in generall.
  
• 12.11.2017 - TWEAK: moved points from Merciless Repertoire -> Elemental Awakening. This results in overall slightly more damage