zDPS Freeze Witch (W.I.P)

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by Verisar last updated Mar 16, 2015 ( Patch 2.1.2 )

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Skills

Blizzard Frozen Solid
- Blizzard
Cost: 40 Arcane Power

Call down shards of ice that deal 1075% weapon damage as Cold over 6 seconds to enemies in a 12 yard radius. Multiple casts in the same area from the same caster do not stack.
Frozen Solid

Enemies caught in the Blizzard have a 100% chance to be Frozen for 2.5 seconds.
Black Hole Supermassive
- Black Hole
Cost: 20 Arcane Power
Cooldown: 12 seconds

Conjure a Black Hole at the target location that draws enemies to it and deals 700% weapon damage as Arcane over 2 seconds to all enemies within 15 yards.
Supermassive

Increases the Black Hole radius to 20 yards and damage to 1290% weapon damage as Lightning over 2 seconds.
Magic Weapon Deflection
- Magic Weapon
Cost: 25 Arcane Power

Imbue your weapon with magical energy, granting it 10% increased damage. Lasts 10 minutes.
Deflection

When you perform an attack, gain a protective shield for 3 seconds that absorbs 4% of your Life in damage.
Energy Armor Prismatic Armor
- Energy Armor
Cost: 25 Arcane Power

Focus your energies, increasing your Armor by 35% but decreasing your maximum Arcane Power by 20. Lasts 10 minutes.

Only one Armor may be active at a time.
Prismatic Armor

Energy Armor also increases your resistance to all damage types 25%.
Diamond Skin Crystal Shell
- Diamond Skin
Cooldown: 15 seconds

Transform your skin to diamond for 3 seconds, absorbing up to 40% of your Life in damage from incoming attacks.
Crystal Shell

Increase the maximum amount of damage absorbed to 80% of your Life.
Frost Nova Cold Snap
- Frost Nova
Cooldown: 11 seconds

Blast nearby enemies with an explosion of ice and freeze them for 2 seconds.
Cold Snap

Reduce the cooldown to 7.5 seconds and increase the Freeze duration to 3 seconds.

Blur
- Blur
Decrease damage taken by 17%.
Evocation
- Evocation
Reduce all cooldowns by 20%.
Cold Blooded
- Cold Blooded
Enemies chilled or frozen by you take 10% more damage from all sources for the duration of the chill or Freeze.
Unwavering Will
- Unwavering Will
Standing still for 1.5 seconds increases the following attributes:

Armor: 20%
All Resistances: 20%
Damage: 10%

Items

Leoric's Crown

Legendary Helm

72 - 89 Armor

Primary Stats

Sockets (1)

Secondary Stats

Increase the effect of any gem socketed into your helm by 100%. This effect does not apply to Legendary Gems.

+ 3 Random Magic Properties
Born's Privilege

Set Shoulders

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Born's Command
Born's Frozen Soul
Born's Privilege
Born's Furious Wrath
(2) Set: +15% Life
(3) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.+20% Experience. (0.2*10|1| % at level 70)
Blackthorne's Duncraig Cross

Set Amulet

Primary Stats

Critical Hit Chance Increased by 6.0–10.0%
+4 Random Magic Properties
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

Blackthorne's Battlegear
Blackthorne's Duncraig Cross
Blackthorne's Spurs
Blackthorne's Surcoat
Blackthorne's Notched Belt
Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
(2) Set: +250 VitalityIncreases damage against elites by 10%
(3) Set: Reduces damage from elites by 10%+25% Extra Gold from Monsters
(4) Set: You are immune to Desecrator, Molten, and Plagued monster ground effects.
Born's Frozen Soul

Set Chest Armor

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Born's Command
Born's Frozen Soul
Born's Privilege
Born's Furious Wrath
(2) Set: +15% Life
(3) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.+20% Experience. (0.2*10|1| % at level 70)
Ancient Parthan Defenders

Legendary Bracers

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Each stunned enemy within 25 yards reduces your damage taken by 9–12%.
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+85–108 Dexterity

+85–108 Strength

+85–108 Intelligence
Asheara's Ward

Set Gloves

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Asheara's Vestments
Asheara's Custodian
Asheara's Ward
Asheara's Pace
Asheara's Finders
(2) Set: +100 Resistance to All Elements
(3) Set: +20% Life
(4) Set: Attacks cause your followers to occasionally come to your aid.
Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle

Set Belt

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Captain Crimson's Trimmings
Captain Crimson's Waders
Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
Captain Crimson's Thrust
(2) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.Regenerates 6000 Life per Second
(3) Set: Reduces all resource costs by 10%.+50 Resistance to All Elements
Captain Crimson's Thrust

Set Pants

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Captain Crimson's Trimmings
Captain Crimson's Waders
Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
Captain Crimson's Thrust
(2) Set: Reduces cooldown of all skills by +10%.Regenerates 6000 Life per Second
(3) Set: Reduces all resource costs by 10%.+50 Resistance to All Elements
Asheara's Finders

Set Boots

Primary Stats

+6 Random Magic Properties

Asheara's Vestments
Asheara's Custodian
Asheara's Ward
Asheara's Pace
Asheara's Finders
(2) Set: +100 Resistance to All Elements
(3) Set: +20% Life
(4) Set: Attacks cause your followers to occasionally come to your aid.
Ring of Royal Grandeur

Legendary Ring

Primary Stats

Attack Speed Increased by 2.0–3.0%
+27–60 Life per Hit
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Reduces the number of items needed for set bonuses by 1 (to a minimum of 2).
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+24–29 Dexterity

+24–29 Strength

+24–29 Intelligence
Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker

Legendary Sword

Primary Stats

+(32–39)–(39–49) Lightning Damage
+2 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Chance on hit to blast your enemy with Lightning, dealing 279–372% weapon damage as Lightning and then jumping to additional nearby enemies. Each enemy hit has their attack speed and movement speed reduced by 30% for 3 seconds. Jumps up to 5 targets.
Empty Socket
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+128–163 Dexterity

+128–163 Strength

+128–163 Intelligence
Stormshield

Legendary Shield

Primary Stats

+4 Random Magic Properties

Secondary Stats

Reduces damage from melee attacks by 25.0–30.0%
One of 3 Magic Properties (varies)

+330–524 Dexterity

+330–524 Strength

+330–524 Intelligence

More Details

Head
- Leoric's Crown
- Stat Priority: None
Shoulders
- Born's Privilege
- Stat Priority: None
Amulet
- Blackthorne's Duncraig Cross
- Stat Priority: CDR Vit Socket
Torso
- Born's Frozen Soul
- Stat Priority: Dex Vit Int Reduced Elite Dmg
Wrists
- Ancient Parthan Defenders
- Stat Priority: None
Hands
- Asheara's Ward
- Stat Priority: CDR Int Vit
Waist
- Captain Crimson's Silk Girdle
- Blackthorne's Notched Belt
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Armor + LPS
Legs
- Captain Crimson's Thrust
- Blackthorne's Jousting Mail
- Stat Priority: Int Vit AR
Feet
- Asheara's Finders
- Stat Priority: Int Vit AR LPS
Rings
- Ring of Royal Grandeur
- Stat Priority: CDR Int Vit LPS
Weapon
- Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
- Solanium
- Stat Priority: CDR Vit Socket
Offhand
- Stormshield
- Stat Priority: Int Vit Reduced Elite Dmg Block %

Legendary Gems
- Gogok of Swiftness
  Gogok of Swiftness
  
  Gem
  
  Secondary Stats
  
  Gain Swiftness with every attack, increasing your Attack Speed by 1% and Dodge by 0.5% for 4 seconds. This effect stacks up to 15 times.
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Paragon Priorities

Core

Movement Speed
Vitality
Primary Stat
Maximum Resource

Offense

Cooldown Reduction
Critical Hit Chance
Critical Hit Damage
Attack Speed

Defense

Resist All
Life Regeneration
Armor
Life

Utility

Life on Hit
Resource Cost Reduction
Area Damage
Gold Find

Build Guide

Warning Wall of text and poor american schooled grammer ahead.

Pretty simple build, after playing around with zdps sader and seeing the shortfalls in that and then playing the zdps WD and seeing the falls in that it got me thinking about CM wizard back in 1.0.8 and how much fun that was so i decided to see if it was still viable in a zdps tank sort of way.

Our main point of perma freeze is Frost Nova with the cold snap option, using this we can keep it up 100% with all the CDR on the gear that we have, currently i have 76.61 CDR which alows for me to spam pretty much all my cc's and defensive spells quite often the only issue is with some elites being more resistant to the freeze and getting out of it after about 2 seconds so this leaves about .25 seconds of underlap that they arnt frozen for but from testing this out it doesn't seem to be to bad, cold snap mixed with black hole takes care to stop shit in its tracks.

As for blizzard it was really hard to decide what to do here, it was my first choice but because of how much it cost and the low duration of the freeze its pretty much just good as a filler, i tried other things like mirror image and the stun option and i could get 4+ up at a time but the issue with that is that they would run away to die and wouldn't just sit there with me to explode and stun everything, also tried the teleport stun but the CD on it was just too high for the 1 second stun, maybe it would be good if you wanted a faster pace grift but idk.

As for the weapon, i chose thunderfury as the main due to the proc that seems quite consistent its good for laying the slows on the enemies so now they are frozen and slowed so if for whatever reason they get out or you move on they are still cc'ed, solanium was another choice for the health globes but since my gear isnt perfectly optimized atm since i just threw shit together my crit chance is rather low. Im not to sure if there are other better choices out there but if there are please let me know.

Current stats: 107Mil Toughness Standing still 87Mil Moving

As you can see from that high of toughness plus all the defensive shields and what not on the character pretty much nothing phases you, i completed a 42Grift with complete ease with nothing but RG getting un-frozen and even then a hit from him wouldn't even get past my shields or just barely dent my HP and it was back up to full and Diamond skin was back up and im good again.

Any kind of comments/advice are always welcome.

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