Cold Flay Lich Freeze Chance

Acolyte
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I’ve been fine tuning a potential cold flay lich build and wanted help figuring out if building into freeze chance was worth it?

The build in question is here:

Cold Flay Lich

I’ve been able to squeeze in about 2k freeze chance multiplier. This is then multiplied by around 200% more freeze chance at full chill stacks(blessing) and 330% chance to freeze from 15 frostbite + exposed flesh.

The freeze rates I’ll be working with will be:

  1. Flay - 360
  2. Bone Curse - 100
  3. Marrow Shards - 50

The freeze formula works those out to be:

( Base freeze rate * (1 + freeze rate multiplier) * (1 + freeze rate per stack of chill) / Monster HP) * chance to be frozen.

  1. (360 * 21 * 3 / 1,000,000) * 4.3 = .097 = 10% chance
  2. (100 * 21 * 3 / 1,000,000) * 4.3 = .027 = 3% chance
  3. (50 * 21 * 3 / 1,000,000) * 4.3 = .013 = 1% chance to freeze

Are any of these freeze rates at all usable for end game? I don’t know what end game hp levels look like now so I’m not sure if it is worth pursuing.

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Don’t forget the freeze rate per stack of chill affix that can go on your helm & chest. Have I missed som +max skellues, I thought you can only get 6 as a Lich for a total freeze rate of 320 for Flay.

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Its should be 7. 6+1 for putting 23 points in necro. I tested on a necro because I don’t have a lich and forgot about the mastery bonus. I’ll change it to 360.

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Is the Age of Winter blessing multiplicative?

Frostbite & Exposed Flesh would be an x4.3 multiplier, not x3.3 (100% increased doubles your chance).

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The freeze formula on the game guide calculates it like it multiplicative:

https://www.lastepochtools.com/guide/section/freeze

My calc are off regardless though. I didn’t realize your need to apply freeze chance after (base freeze chance * freeze multi * freeze chance per chill stack / monster hp). I was also missing some some +1s.

This kind of leaves me at the same place though as I don’t know how much monster hp I should be building for. I think I read Aberroth is like 10 million. If that’s the case it may be pointless. I’ll try 1 million for the calcs maybe that is enough for trash mobs.

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Fair enough, that is multiplicative.

It doesn’t matter, using the figures from the guide, ((40 x 2.5 x 6) / 10 000) x 4 = ((40 x 2.5 x 6 x 4) / 10 000) = 0.24

As long as the numbers are correct & you’re treating added/multiplicative things correctly, the order is irrelevant.

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After recalculating the numbers aren’t looking good. Even end game bosses had only a couple million hp I probably wouldn’t be seeing freezes until they are at like 5% hp. It will probably be better overall to just go for pure hit damage.

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Especially considering bosses have a 50% reduction for freeze. So you’d need twice as much as for a normal enemy.