I’m finding it really effective to throw up a couple blizzards, wait for the enemies to run towards me then teleport behind them so they turn around and stay in the blizzard. I’m considering taking the points out of the lucky hit passive and putting them in teleport. I think it would be better to swap out on my rings for +mana regen so I can drop blizzards at a slightly faster rate while staying above 50 mana. I don’t see any other reason to keep lucky hit high. I’m not making enemies vulnerable nearly as often now so the mana regen here is decreased. Blizzard is a DOT which I don’t think has a lucky hit. It was primarily as a way to keep mana high while shot gunning ice shards.

Lucky hit: I don’t think this makes sense anymore. Maybe it’s better to focus on something else with this build instead? There are a lot of +damage to and -damage from chilled enemies available in the ice fall paragon board. I’m also wondering about the utility of allocating so many paragon points into frigid fate paragon board for vulnerable damage just for bosses. I’m still finding this useful for elites and bosses but elites are dying pretty quickly without and frost nova has such a long cooldown now since moving the points into blizzard. I can still apply it with my frost nova or directly with a well aimed blast of ice shards. I don’t think the ice shards enchantment can apply it either because it’s only two shards. Vulnerable: I don’t believe that blizzard can apply vulnerable. I might have to break out the excel spreadsheet in the future.

I’m not a great theory crafter so I was hoping to start a discussion here. I was hoping to discuss a few points with some others who might be playing this build. If my barrier is up, most enemies freeze within a couple seconds. I’m also using the aspect which gives glacial spikes a 10% chance to freeze.

I’m still using ice shards as the enchantment but I’m relying on blizzard with as much +chill as possible to freeze enemies. With five seconds, the entire screen is covered in a giant blizzard. After that, I pace them out and cast another every time I’m over half mana. When I enter a room, I throw up two blizzards immediately because I have enough mana for two casts above 50. I’m also finding survivability higher because I’m not always in melee range to fire off frost novas. It’s a much smoother play style than frost nova + ice shards, deals with big groups much more effectively and I’m finding it better against bosses. I’m not super high level yet, only low 60s right now but I’ve recently started using blizzard with the ice spikes enchantments and I’m loving the build so far.

Blizzard sorceress build diablo 2 1.14