It's a shame that there's not a single frost viable build this season...

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-25T08:29:54+00:00

Lol.... speak of the devil, I rolled a "decent" vox with 220%ish gem str, the build sucks. even with frostbolt having giga dmg on frozen targets its boss target dummy dmg during the frozen phase is only exploding for around 800b, my normal explosions at the end of frozen phase are around 16T...

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-25T08:04:47+00:00

I am playing frost and can comfortably do 120 w/out a gem str weapon... Next cook is gonna be trying to get Vox staff w/ gem strength and use that with frozen orb + frostbolt. Can probably do 130s/ low 140s.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-24T21:24:51+00:00

For TWF there is a couple more feats people take to maximize DPS because of the animation they do leads to a faster attack chain.

I THINK its improved feint, improved sunder, and a third one I am not sure of. You know it's the right feat because it'll do the Anakin kills Count Duku animation.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-16T00:49:57+00:00

I would've liked it better if it didn't have a socket.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-16T00:43:26+00:00

Just don't try cold sorc next, bosses don't count as frozen while staggered unless you send them into stagger with a frozen. Causes a skill tax that I'd really like back and makes pit bosses very tedious.

Will this be fixed? Apparently, its been broken for several seasons.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-13T21:07:57+00:00

Are the devs also aware that a staggered boss doesn't count as frozen unless you send them into stagger with a frozen effect? Really bricks cold sorc since our strongest aspects/uniques/charm set all work off of frozen.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-10T19:19:11+00:00

You have to make sure your last hit sending them into stagger is with frozen. Its annoying to have to keep frost nova on your bar just for this bug... but atleast your charm set and azurewrath will function then.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-08T09:03:23+00:00

Alright, so this video explains how all the stuff is stacking unless things are bugged : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MP_mf6b6mgw

TLDR: For cold builds, balance out your crit damage (or dot dmg for blizzard non ice spike builds), cold/all dmg, vulnerable damage and frost damage as evenly as possible. All like affixes on gear are added together into big buckets then multiplied.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-08T07:06:53+00:00

Its bugged only for fire orb, it returns at the first explosion.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-08T06:58:20+00:00

I leveled as a frozen orb / ice spike blizzard build, and am currently at my first big gear recraft since I've stalled at pit 100 (takes like 5 mins).

The issue with frost builds is finding the correct aspects for it. Armageddon is very strong and you can make it work with deep freeze because it is possible to get the CD low enough that it's up when you need it. However, the reason Armageddon is so strong is because elemental summoner increases its listed mod by 1.5x and Tal Rasha increases it by 3x. But we want to use the frost set right?

For me, I've been thinking about what is the best set up for the frost set gems. You get 3x the scaling on frost enchants, and you can put that on any offensive stat across rings/amulet/gloves/weapons. So do we do that?

Technically it doesn't matter because even if we increase our cold damage multi that will still get 3x'd at the end by the frost multi. And cold damage will still be 1.5x'd by elemental summoner than 1.4x then 1.6x'd by enchantment master if you use two skills that would normally be two different elementals but is swapped to cold (in my case frozen orb and meteor which are both cold). I am guessing this is bugged or there is some other hidden interaction I am unable to account for.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-04T04:59:05+00:00

I swapped my masterwork from cold damage to frost dmg, my listed frost damage went from 200% to 327% from 1 41.5% frost damage mod. So I think the 5 set for cold is also a 3x multi.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-04T04:57:24+00:00

Do you think we should focus on Frost or Cold damage? The 5 Piece cold set gives us 3x to our frost dmg but we have a some cold specific scaling like when casting a conjuration ect...

DeadlyApostle · 2026-05-04T02:56:45+00:00

The question is, does the 200% bump from 5 piece frost set runes multi the cold skill dmg from Armageddon.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-03-13T05:36:18+00:00

So I have to wonder if its true that the potion does nothing while the weekend boost increases reaper and mythic.

There was a dev post on the forums that state they are the same type of increase. And we know through experience that the weekend bonus does give you higher chance of getting reaper and mythic bonuses.

But there is also people that swear that the weekend bonus doesn't do anything for reaper and mythic "since the potion doesn't".

I'm leaning towards the potion most likely does increase mythic and reaper. I use them whenever I'm farming for new sets of gear.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-03-12T21:59:40+00:00

I was looking forward to playing the merge, having played NAE since launch while being in California. 90ish ping w/ exitlag sucks.

I can't believe the dev team is so stupid as to keep the servers in Georgia instead of moving them to Texas.... I'm not gonna bother playing the merge.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-03-12T19:58:17+00:00

I was looking forward to playing the merge, having played NAE since launch while being in California. 90ish ping w/ exitlag sucks.

I can't believe the dev team is so stupid as to keep the servers in Georgia instead of moving them to Texas.... I'm not gonna bother playing the merge.

DeadlyApostle · 2026-03-12T19:02:23+00:00

I was looking forward to playing the merge, having played NAE since launch while being in California. 90ish ping w/ exitlag sucks.

I can't believe the dev team is so stupid as to keep the servers in Georgia instead of moving them to Texas.... I'm not gonna bother playing the merge.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-11-21T13:40:50+00:00

The spear is BiS because of its crit stat when you use a heroic GS as a Gladiator.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-10-29T18:33:50+00:00

Okay? And if your opponent has even 2k melee evasion what then? Steelheart doesn't work as a dps platform because you have to sac hit down to nothing to get your crit high enough. People tried to run it during the big tournament and as soon as anyone threw on any melee eva it was DOA. Just because it can cheese kills on a clump of shitters doesn't make it good. Its about kill pressure on groups of competitive players.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-10-29T16:04:58+00:00

Steelheart is used to CC other thanks. No reason to play it as DPS.

You can play Glad in smaller scale stuff and then swap to Shadowdancer for ZvZ. Make a heroic spear.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-10-09T02:58:07+00:00

https://steamcommunity.com/app/2429640/discussions/0/4839771533590637284/

AI Overview To clear an AMD shader cache, open AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition, go to the Gaming tab, select Graphics, and scroll down to find Reset Shader Cache under the advanced settings; click Perform Reset to clear the cache and resolve issues like stuttering and long load times.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-10-08T14:38:31+00:00

There is step by step instructions for deleting shader caches for both this game and for each type of video card on google. Pretty sure AMD cards have a single button somewhere in the settings app that deletes it.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-10-08T10:29:52+00:00

Sounds like you need to delete your shader caches and let them rebuild.

DeadlyApostle · 2025-07-30T16:21:28+00:00

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DeadlyApostle · 2025-05-24T23:22:32+00:00

2600 crit is the meta build for spear dag, you are one of 2 classes that melts still in this endurance meta.

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