Frostburns good?

Sorcerer
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I found a pair of frostburn gloves. They increase frost dmg and give a chance to freeE any enemy hit for 2 seconds. They a good item for sorc?

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… How do people find those bis uniques and don’t even realize they are bis uniques. The only garbage I’ve seen are the fireball crap and Mother’s Embrace… I’m running 0 Uniques at level 78, because they don’t drop, meanwhile I see level 50 sorcs with Frostburns and Remnants…

3

Unfortunately these are only sacred. Im glad gg ubiques dont drop before torment 4 because id hate to find a plain legendary grandfather for example

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I got 7 (one a second time) and im lvl 61. Most of them i got in nightmare dungeons.

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Dude, I ran 6h strigt 40+ Nightmares and I saw 1 Unique - the stupid Fireball gloves. Meanwhile another Sorc I know got Remntant and Frostburn in a cellar in WT3 :@

6

That literally doesn’t matter.

7

But we want the ancestral versions of everything surely?

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For Frostburns it literally doesn’t matter. The difference is within 5%. For other items like weapons in matters a lot, but for others it doesn’t at all.

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Yeah they are quite good, the frost damage is multiplicative and the freeze chance is over twice what you can get with frost passives in the skill tree. I use them even though i got low rolls on most affixes, because i’m playing a blizzard/ice shards build and it would be a sin not to.

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Gonna annoy you a tad more then. I got a pair dropped on my necro, couldn’t even trade it to my sorc friend. :frowning:

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Yeah, not being able to trade Uniques is dumb.

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I don’t think I could give up my +4 iceshards on my gloves for frostburn. I freeze things quite well without them and then it gets spread to everything with aspect of shared misery.

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For solo play, no, 4 to iceshards is way to much damage. For party Frostburn is bis, because your damage is irrelevant. Sorc is just a CC bot in party.

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14

I feel like they forgot to add + frost skills onto Frostburn gloves. Its a unique after all :slight_smile:

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Yeah they are okay ish If your running like a blizzard freeze build to cc, but if your main spender is a core ability you just can’t give up a +4 to that. It’s just too much damage. Gloves are so important.

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Maud Flanders voice: “Won’t someone think of the economy?!”

lol, nope

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They are really good.

They are the only gloves as far as I know which currently have cold dmg

Being a ice sorc your not going to see much difference in freezing against mobs/elites. Where frostburn shines is in boss fights as it can stagger the boss much fsster.

Ive used the +4 shards with orbs and i can say frostburn still wins in downing bosses faster but loses against general mobs/elites

Also because of the massive freeze you can save 6 skill points in chill/freeze passives