Looking For Help: Melee Frost Lich

I've been watching a good deal of content, but no one seems to have this one laid out.

I'm looking for guideance as to how I could build a Frost-based Melee Lich. My ideal would be something like WoW's Frost DK. (Fast attacks, cold, plague damage, mass synergies).

Primarily I'm looking for a heavy armored, cold-damage build (not Ice Sorcereress - already leveled one).

I would like to spread and freeze quickly. Maybe using poison damage if elemental doesn't work.

Some ideas as to how to spread debuffs (whether through talent tree or ability-gems greatly appreciated).

I'm using: Frost Breach Slim Mace right now as a weapon.

Here are some thoughts I'm playing around with thus far:

  • Frost/Cold Thematics
  • Melee Cold Damage
  • Two-Handed or Dual-Weilding
  • Heavy Armor
  • Armor also applies to Elemental Damage
  • Bind Spectre (Minion)

- Not really interested in minions doing all the work. (As I've seen Frost Skeleton builds). Not really looking for an army build.

+ I really like the disease and infection idea.

Any general tools/sites, weapon/armor suggestions, ideas on skill gems or other concept directions would be greatly appreciated. I'm flexible with the idea. Please and Thank You.

Comments

tanjonaJulien•4 months ago•1

Ascend to abyssal lich you can use curse and boost your melee dps.woth minion then you can achieve mace/scepter

F8_zZ•4 months ago•1

Dual Mjolnir with Call of the Brotherhood? Maybe Quarterstaff with Ice Strike?

You could run Chaotic Freeze support on your damaging skill to give freeze building to all chaos damage, which Lich has easy access to. That way you can run some poison or Contagion.

Not sure if you can chain Herald of Plague with Herald of Ice the way you can with Plague/Blood but it's an idea for spreading.

JamesHui0522•4 months ago•1

I have a build I believe is kinda similar to what you are after.

Im using the Reap spell granted from the reaper staff, it is basically a physical spell that looks and feels like an attack, and it looks like you are swinging a massive scythe, but it only scales off of spell damage. People usually build this with blood mage, but the spell itself already has 14% base crit so I figure I can use other ascendancies.

Normally people build it around just purely physical damage and increasing clear with the trampletoe overkill damage, but I made it with archmage, and cast on crit with frost wall and ice nova, but Trampletoe is still kinda needed. Basically you just swing the scythe at the enemies, and every two swing or so you autocast a bunch of frostwalls and shatters them, making a massive ice explosion. It is quite fun, but survivability is a bit tricky.

This is my POE ninja. There are some good gear, but I think many of them are overkill and there is probably a better solution. Also Im using Varashta because one of the Djinns will swing a sword at the enemy when you cast a spell, but I tried it and its not that good. https://poe.ninja/poe2/profile/VitricaEdge-6216/character/Calipse

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