Glacial Bolt Proof of Concept

https://www.twitch.tv/zigzog/clip/VenomousFunnyOcelotEleGiggle-ErVu47P0DdRfSv0S
https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/ZigZog-6140/character/testing_ZOB

Don't look too much into some of the fancy items, they don't matter.

The core of the tech is to utilize entangle's ability to instantly hit anything that is placed on top of it. This combined with the interaction between Biting Frost and Ice Crystals makes entangle an incredible tool to instantly detonate frost walls that are placed on it.

Between Multishot and Fortress, each shot of Glacial Bolt creates upwards of 54 instantly exploding frost walls as long as they are placed on top of an entangle supported by Biting Frost.

The tech has applications over almost every Frost Wall-esque skills.

If you have any question, I'll be happy to answer them !

The footage was done in a T1 map with all 10 boss points on the lvl 68 character linked above in HCSSFBTW.

Comments

KattKills•about 2 hours ago•2

https://poe.ninja/poe2/builds/vaal/character/KattKills-2062/ThatWolfHasACrossbow?i=0&search=skills%3DGlacial%2BBolt

You can league start glacial bolt entangle as a two button build and transition fully into a CoC setup in the end game. Honestly one of the best builds I've ever played, insane sleeper build this league.

Multishot and Fortress are bait imo compared to just scaling AoE so the base 9 wall fragments can shotgun with better damage supports.

If you use CoC entangle you need to use upheaval instead of Branching Fissures because Branching Fissures can crash instances sometimes lol.

The wolves from pounce wont target icewalls but when supported by biting frost can also detonate walls with both their leap when they leap to an enemy near a wall and with their melee attacks aoe cleave if they have enough AoE, even when they are supported by brutus brain. Nothing funnier than prestacking a couple walls and watching your brutus brain wolves instantly delete a 10mill hp boss while you stand there doing nothing

angikatlo•about 3 hours ago•1

What does glacial bolt do here?

Edit: oh, i thought it was frost wall

Amouchou•about 3 hours ago•1

That looks sick, maybe with plaguefinger you can even add some poison in there too! I use the vine on my poison burst WH to put pustuless on mobs the clear is fantastic it's such a great addition of a skill utility through the roof.

Skhemattos•about 3 hours ago•1

Neat, now I can fry my pc attempting entangle CoC frost wall

This is pretty cool looking though. I need to watch more but do you end up taking a bunch of skill effect duration to keep the entangle on the ground?

tooncake•about 2 hours ago•1

Interesting.. I wonder if entangle would work with Frost Wall spell (been wanting Frost Wall to be like the main damage dealer or primary skill)

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