artic blast build???

[dogs best friend]

artic blast build???

I've seen alot of guides for artic blast druids it would be intressting to make but artic blast it would take 4 hours to kill baal normal and nm monsters wouldn't even feel it has any1 made it is it just a waste of time the ppl who make them are happy with them but i don't see how artic blast can do more then 500 dmg :xquiet:

 

[Drunka-lunka]

it is possible to get over 1,000 cold damage per second. I have read that arctic blast is bugged, not sure exactly how but I believe it does not actually do the damage it says it does in the manner in which is should.

I havent seen anyone try to max it- it syns with hurricaine and cyclone armor, max them all and you do like 976-1060 per second. You could maybe get some gear to add to your skills, say six points total between armor, helm, weapon, shld and rings- and do like 1300-1400 or so per second. Maybe you could mix this with a sort of wind build? You wont get the huge damage a pure wind druid can achieve but you would prob be able to play through NM.

:xgift: :xquiet:

 

[Tor]

there are no arctic blast guides.

actic blast only deals liek 1/3 or something of the listed damage

 

[Beowulf]

there are no arctic blast guides.

actic blast only deals liek 1/3 or something of the listed damage

That said with that new runeword that gives the conviction aura might make the build viable. The way I see it is you do like I do with my mfing sorc carry a wand or dagger with lower res charges (I have a dagger with 75 lvl 2 lower res charges) abd a merc with that runeword and this might bring the monster res down enough to make artic blast viable. Add a nice lvl bear to whack them and voila.

 

[MrGoth]

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The bug is not 1/3 damage, but it's exactly like that of wake of inferno and inferno's bug. These skills only damage targets that are in the exact center of the spell. So something that looks like hes off to the side but still having soem frost on him wont take any damage. This kills the usefulness of this skill in pvm and makes it viable only vrs 1 thing at a time {unless they are all in a nice line like in the maggot layer, but even then some might not be in an exact line and take no damage}.

 

[Sh4dovv]

artic blast i short ranged..almost melee

but does a fraction of the dmg

id just stick with melee...

 

[Uzziah]

Its a stream issue the same one as inferno. The stream size is very small, it also does incrimental damage per frame, this damage puts the enemy in a "hit recovery" state and the next delay does not allow the next frame to deal damage.

It's a bug that is being discussed alot, I as well as other are not clear on exactly what is going on with it. But to make things fairly clear the arctic blast deals only 1/2 or 1/3 the stated damage.

It's range increases with level just like inferno, and synergy(WoF) to WoI IIRC, been a while since I tried it as a skill. either way you could use it in place of a melee attack. Its synergies are nice as well, I have thought about a hurricane arctic blast build but the bug does make it not worthwhile.

 

[Hunt3r_kill4]

artic blast i short ranged..almost melee

but does a fraction of the dmg

id just stick with melee...

it is not short ranged. At high levels, Artic blast can have longer range than even tornados and frozen orbs. If you practice enough, you can learn to aim it so you can hit an opponent with ease. The only problem is multiple targets at once.

 

[Darknicrofia]

My druid has 1 point into artic blast, it is of a wind built, from the syenergies alone, it does about 1.4k per second......just to correct you on the damage part, however, AB, is useless and should deserve to be deleted permanetly from D2 skill list(and in replacement, make a skill that's another syenergy to tornado ^_^)