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If anyone has the gear and able to test, please do so and let me know how it works, otherwise I will be farming them up for awhile myself. Thanks.

Looking at ur choice of skill, I think leoric helm not a good choice, since cdr not needed a lot. How about use wz helm can give u more variation also if u want more ice Booster u can try use andariel helm and sacrifice pant from wd

Leoric's was originally in there not for CDR as there was never a diamond in the helm but rather a Topaz as it ended up making Ray of Frost 7.09 Arcane Power/Sec with the build. Looking at Andariel's Visage, rolling that with cold damage could be pretty beneficial, originally I didn't have that in because of the increased damage to fire the player takes, but in retrospect, looking at the other defenses, I think it more than likely compensates nicely for the increased fire damage. The Arcane cost raises up to 8.82/second with a slotted topaz, which is still "cap stable" to speak of. To do so you end up sacrificing VIT which reduces the overall HP of the build from 748k hp to 578K hp. That can be countered of course by changing the Topaz to an Amethyst which raises hp to a max of 656k hp, but increasing the arcane power consumption to 10.08 per second. Outside of solo mode, our Arcane regen then is at 10% leaving a small amount not accounted for.

This could then cause an increase in drops of Aquila Cuirass, and Mantle of Channeling's damage reduction, however in actual gameplay one will not be continuously staying in 1 spot the entire game, and during movement would regen some Arcane Power.

Its all a bit of a balancing act between damage/survivability/resource management.

Your point about the Swamp Land Waders is interesting as they roll with elemental damage, and I hadn't given them much thought as I was thinking to pieces more typically used by wizards.

I like the look of it, but instead of Azurewrath would you consider something different? I'm not entirely sure as to what but there are a plethora of 1hander options you could do, such as Shard of Hate for that freezing skull, Serpent Sparker (and maybe fit in cold hydras somewhere), etc..

EDIT: If you can fit in The Magistrate wizard helmet in you can have 2 Serpents that proc your Cold Nova's automatically.

The Azurewrath is there for a couple reasons, #1 it can grant an additional 20% damage bonus to cold , and #2 which is a huge part of the build design is the 20-25% chance to freeze enemy targets for 2 seconds. That added with everything else I have in the build gives an average 80.04% chance to have a target frozen for 2 seconds, mitigating their incoming damage and now with my updated APD, that of every other target with 15 yards. The holy damage that the sword does to demons/undead (which seems like a misplaced design to me) ends up with the modifiers doing an extra 1.33 billion dps to all demon/undead enemies within 25 yards and having a 20% chance to toss them in the air (which is why I originally had Strongarm bracers in the build).

Shard of Hate has a 20% chance on elemental attack to proc the extra skill that does 250% weapon damage. I've done the math on the Freezing Skull for damage and it ends up being 2.5 bil damage. The drawbacks however is that you lose 20% bonus to cold damage, and your max roll for chance to freeze on the weapon now is only 2.6% instead of 25%, which is undesired for the reasoning I discuss in the build data.

I would surmise, that if you really didn't want Azurewrath as a weapon, it might be debatable to use an Ancient Deathwish and cube a Furnace for extra damage on elites/bosses which are GR's natural chokepoints. Although we lose 20% overall bonus damage for cold, and that 25% chance to freeze.

Edit: I forgot to address the second part of your question, regarding The Magistrate. you could quite possibly remove Familiar:Sparkflint losing the passive 10% damage buff and replace it with Frost Hydra, and swap the helm to The Magistrate. Keeping Frost Nova runed as Bone Chill, will allow the Frost Hydra to proc more often the 33% bone chill damage increase to frozen targets. It merits testing in my opinion.

This build rocks. GR102.

Running some numbers from a discussion in the forums, if you're willing to sacrifice the chance to freeze and the ADP's, you can get some pretty sick damage using an Ancient Deathwish and Strongarm Bracers with a cubed Twisted Sword, and Ransor's Folly. Potential Damage from the Energy Twisters actually can get into the low trillions of damage. See here:http://www.d3planner.com/717874743

That of course is assuming perfect rolls, while Solo w/ Templar using Overwhelming Desire and Occulus Ring with a gemmed Iceblink/Effcacious Toxin.

Doing so though will reduce our overall chance to freeze to around 10%, and our damage reduction to 82%.

+1 lots of details.

Thanks for your insight! I definitely think a badass Azurewrath would be really good for the build, but I really like the idea of exchanging familiar for a cold hydra with The Magistrate. It probably adds way more damage in the long run.

This is what I've been running (http://us.battle.net/d3/en/profile/OgelBro-1402/hero/46476236) and the build (http://www.diablofans.com/builds/70004-legacy-of-frost-channeling). I've gotten to around GR60 but I've never really pushed myself too hard, I'm more of a casual gamer with this game. I've always like off meta builds though, there the most fun in my opinion. Anyway like the build, its cool to see people making up their own stuff. Enjoy!