Hello there, new to last epoch and loving it so far, already completely addicted. That being said I am running my first build which is very enjoyable except for the fact that in a ton of cases the lag is so bad it becomes almost unplayable and has already resulted in a few deaths doing monoliths.
After doing a lot of searching around and seeing some other things including a couple reports from YEARS ago this issue is 100% focused around the brittle fragments node on ice barrage.
Unspeccing this node completely solves the lag issue but it is a pretty huge node to get rid of and hits the aoe clear pretty big. I would love to play my build how it is intended but atm it is literally unplayable. Please look into this I really want to continue playing this build how it was meant to be.