Hi. I’, messing around with blizzard spell, cause it’s a classic and I love it, but it is a confusing spell. I doesn’t seem to crit, it also doesn’t benefit from direct damage modifiers, nor does it benefit from damage over time modifiers like say , burn.
So it’s realy difficult to build around it. Sure, you can stack cold damage and maybe damage against frozen enemies and what not, but other than that…
I see a lot of unanswered questions about the nature of this spell, so it would be great to have some official feedback.
Thank you in advance.
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Blizzard, 120% weapon dmg per 8sec on rank 1
132% on rank 2
144% on rank 3
156% on rank 4
168% on rank 5
So +12% over 8sec per rank
Thank you for your answer. But I’m wondering more about which affixes help to make blizzard more powerfull. Specially since it can’t benefit from fire arrow enchant, for instance. And it doesn’t seem to scale up with DoT damage modifiers.
My biggest problem with blizzard, it does not procc the “burn” Enchantement from firebold on the first DOT hit, and loose this way so much in a defence build with Burn as heal…
No idea why blizzard thought it is a good idea, that blizzard cannot burn.
Yeah, I know. It’s confusing from a design stand point. I was wondering if maybe it is bugged, I mean, if it is not a DoT, cause every tick seems to do direct damage, why can’t it benefit from that?
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From what i have seen the ticks can crit overpower and crit overpower. I have 12 skill points into blizzard atm with my paragon and gear aimed twoards making blizzard more powerful. The tooltip atm on my lvl 91 sorc says it does around 63k over the duration. Most of my gear is tailored around increase chill, frozen, and cold damage. It is also a mana hog so alot of my items have resource generation on lucky hit mana reduction and cd reduction to spam abilities to get mana back from the aspect that gives mana back on cd usage. I have not tried the aspect that gives mana back on hiting cc’d targets and that may be better as it chills/freezes constantly
i also have a 818 +25 wand that i use. from what i can tell weapon damage increases the damage of blizzard by alot
Very nice. I’m not nearly geared to try that out, but sounds good. That last aspect you mention could work realy well.
I’m not sure if you are still looking for ways to make blizzard work but it is absolutely awesome when used with two specific aspects (Glacial and Frozen Tundra). When you use those two together blizzard really becomes a monster.
Blizzard is definitely a DOT
Benefits from +DOT, frost damage, cold damage, chill modifiers as everything in the air will be chilled.
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It cannot crit and doesn’t have the burning paragon node to scale with crit damage so it’s damage will always be terrible.
The Ice Spike aspects come with their own damage that doesn’t take into account the Blizzard level at all or even your weapon item power so you don’t even need to go past 1/5 in Blizzard for that build.
The aspect that gives it ice spikes is a game changer and I think that actually can crit
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Ice spike’s definitely crit. They’re a standard frost DD. Now if only they could apply burning from Firebolt Enchantment…
As long as you are using the frost shards enchantment then everything burns
Sorry, I meant Ice Shards enchantment. Everything on my screen is always burning as everything is frozen and thus being hit by the ice shards enchantment.
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it feels like a one point wonder skill. the damage is laughable but the ice spikes aspect makes it fun.
Yup, I use that too. I also run Fists of Fate (300%), so ice shards can crit 1mil+ sometimes.
Just curious, what enchants are you using
Ice Spikes, I saw currently 3 versions of legendary, giving additional chill area and dmg to frozen for ice spikes
Note for Ice spikes: The mastery paragon glyph that increases blizzard area by 20% will be an overall dps loss unless you aspect Frozen Tundra (50% explosion radius)
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