The bonuses provided seem to be very good, but it seems to me to be a rather unpopular choice among players. Is the reason simply the immunities of the hell difficulty?
It is a fun runeword but yes it is expensive being that it costs a Jah + Lo, doesn’t really have great damage and Holy Freeze is unnecessary since you can easily get from A2 merc.
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The physical damage component of ice pigeon holes you into a Frostmaiden build only. If you wanted to go a Magezon or hybrid bowazon, then you’ll be better off with faith.
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any runeword that uses runes higher than an ist better come with +2 skills and resist all at a minimum, and that goes double for weapons that prevent you from equipping a shield. seriously, the team that came up with the qualities of the runewords needs to be dragged behind a tractor through a field of poison ivy for not thinking things through.
way too many of the top runewords have stupid gimmick effects instead of actually useful ones.
100% chance to cast lvl 40 blizzard when you level up? so you’ll see that happen maybe once a week after level 90, and once a month after lvl 95, and then never again. miss me with that crap, don’t waste my high runes on it. get rid of that one, and add +2 to skills and 40 all resist, and it would be worth a Jah and a Lo.
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Frost Maidens are very fun to play using Ice. Get enough pierce and watch the frost novas cover the screen.
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I agree. It’s like rainbow facets that have leveling up procs. Basically it’s a wasted magic bonus. This becomes much worse on runewords like ice that use high runes like you said.
If the runeword had at least +1~2 for cold skills (along with +x% cold skill damage), maybe more people would consider using it
Its very fun but very expensive. Probably the kind of thing to build on NL
Ice is a niche use runeword but it was modeled after Hands of Justice and either of them weren’t well thought out. HoJ lacks %Fire that Ice has for %Cold(despite both runewords having two high runes and HoJ has 3), ctc attributes are hot garbage save for Ice’s Frost Nova on striking(giving it nice AoE which doesn’t make much sense for a Missile runeword since Freezing Arrow yields the same effect. If it were a 4 socket weapon runeword and melee could use it, Frost Nova would be godly from the AoE).
Both have -20% Resistance, which honestly is too low for either runeword(thinking 30% at minimum given that Crescent Moon gives -35% with better procs for far less cost) while keeping %Skill at 20-30%(varies). Both should get ctc Lower Resist on striking(that would amplify Elemental big time). %ED on Ice should also match HoJ(280-330) or be somewhere around 250-300% ED from its current 140-210%.
Otherwise… Ice is hot, unmitigated garbage for the cost.
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I wish the rune requirements on ice and mist were switched around, and then mist had a higher level of concentration aura.
its a waste of runes, unless you’re rich beyond ridiculousness. Mavina’s is almost as good.
Ice is top shlef and faster than Mavs.
why buy a Mclaren to pick up groceries? I mean if you’re rich then i guess your entire garage is full of supercars.
If you’re rich it’s a fun rune word, or you could give it to your A1 cold merc, also for fun.