I’m looking at the Summon Spriggan skill called Frostleaf, which gives allies +40% freeze rate multiplier per point. Can my allies then freeze enemies without any investment into cold damage or freeze chance?
Generally speaking yes, but an ability needs to have a base freeze chance to be able to freeze, which in practice means, only cold skill have that.
All of the %Inc. Freeze rate multiplier modifiers apply to the base chance of a skill.
If a skill does not have a base freeze chance it cannot freeze
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Are all ailments like that? Ignite, poison, bleed, etc?
Is that why some skills have “this skill can now ignite” on them? Because it adds a base chance that wasn’t there before? If so, I have a lot of respeccing to do. 
No for ailments liek bleed, poison, ignite, damned etc. you only need chacne on a gear pieces, passive or other sources.
All of these sources are usually +x% not %inc. like freeze rate.
Also the damage or damage type of the hit that applies an ailment doesn’t matter for its strenght
What’s the story about Blocking? If I take passive that increase my Block chance, my char sheet says I now have x% chance to block but I have no underlying way to block and no shield. Will I ever block?
Bone Curse can freeze, but doesn’t have cold damage…
And that is the exception that makes the rule.
@Ghostlight Yes, because you have a passive that gives you block chance. It’s not % increased block chance, it’s +x% block chance.
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Yes you are right, exceptions are alway confirming the rule 
This specifically confirms what I said
I only said that in practice only most cold skills freeze.
I am almost certain there are a couple more exceptions.
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