jewels which can add up to 16% freeze duration each Other potential sources of freeze duration would be: There is one 10% ailment duration node which probably also applies, but I don't have. I'm not quite sure that would be good enough, and I really doubt I could get that much freeze duration anyway, but I might as well look into it.Д¬urrently I have 60% increased freeze duration, which is every freeze duration node in the tree. 400% freeze duration would mean you only need to hit them for 1% of their max health. If you had 100% freeze duration you'd only need to hit them for 2.5% of their max health. You can also work to extend the duration of your freezes so that smaller amounts of damage are good enough to hit the. I can kite and/or use flasks for the 7 seconds it'll take to burn them down! Fortunately damage isn't the only way to work on this condition. If I only need to hit them 20 times in order to kill them I don't think I care that they're not frozen. Having to hit a boss for 5% of their health in order to freeze them actually seems a little silly. The second condition is the one I'm getting stuck on. If bosses were getting frozen some but not all of the time I would worry more about working on this condition, but they aren't, so I won't. So while not every hit will meet this check a significant number of them will. In my current setup I have a 19% chance to crit, 20% chance to freeze, 20% chance to freeze a chilled enemy, 13% chance to freeze a frostbiten enemy, and somewhere from 0-25% chance to freeze based on distance from my character. The first condition is relatively easy to meet. 3 seconds, which at base means doing 5% of the enemy's max health in cold damage. The hit does enough damage to freeze the enemy for. The hit is a crit OR an inate 'chance to freeze' roll succeeds. What are the specific mechanics behind freezing enemies? For our purposes only cold damage can freeze and a hit of cold damage will freeze if two conditions are met: If so, great! If not, well, probably start a new dude. See if I think that'd be good enough to freeze some bosses. So I think the way to proceed is to work out what I could do to go all in on freezing. At that point I may even be better off just using a different spell entirely! If I'm building up to being able to leech tank bosses I can do the same for all the trash too and I'd be better off without all the freeze related points in the tree. Running a bunch of curses and instant leech and the like is fine if enemies aren't frozen but if they are then it's not really doing anything for me and maybe I'll be better off without 4 item slots dedicated to doing all my cursing.ДЄlternatively maybe I'm better off doing all the cursing and leeching without worrying about freezing at all. I will be getting more of both with more levels (both in terms of getting more passive points in the tree and in terms of leveling up my skill gems) but I'm starting to feel like I need to really go all in on one or the other. I've been trying to straddle a line of being able to still deal with bosses that aren't frozen so I've ended up with a mishmash of a build where I have some survivability and some freezability but not really enough of either.

I can absolutely crush trash monsters but I've been having trouble with bosses.

The theory turns out to be better than the practice, however. This means they can't take actions, which means they can't do damage, which means I get to be invincible! Mwahaha! The goal of the build is to do a bunch of cold damage and inflict the 'freeze' debuff on all of the enemies. My current character is running the freezing pulse skill gem because they added a unique jewel that buffs it and I had fun with it years ago. I have been playing a lot of Path of Exile lately.

Path of exile freezing pulse