Do you enjoy freezing enemies and watching them fall over from DOT damage? Or enjoy stacking up hits and unleashing a satisfying explosion at the end? If so look no further!
This build focuses primarily on DOT damage and the interaction of upheaval and earthquake using which makes for a very satisfying playstyle. The goal is to build up the maximum stacks of while also applying several stacks of to enemies in the build up phase. Thanks to we can avoid getting physical penetration on gear and focus primarily on cold penetration for constant heavy damage from upheaval and our stacks. So the core gameplay comes down to:
- Apply heavy and wipe out mobs in an AOE using upheaval thanks to
- Spam upheaval until reaching max stacks of
- Use Warcry for heavy frost damage boost thanks to
- Use Earthquake to finish off any tankier enemies or bosses thanks to
Upheaval has heavy cold penetration already built in thanks to and wielding a two hander we are negating all enemy resistances from this alone. This combined with the upheaval node allow us to wipe out the area of normal and rare enemies even without the use of earthquake. Upheaval also doubles as a defensive skill as well if we choose to make use of as we are sitting at high attunement thanks to many passives in the shaman tree.
Earthquake is a very heavy mana intensive skill so thanks to our we are still able to apply the heavy dot damage of our earthquake aftershocks without directly casting except after building up enough stacks of .
We also get to utilize a lot of our handy shaman passives in the tree thanks to our other important idol which will summon all 5 totems instantly and grant us the max benefits of our passives such as and .