Hey guys, I have nearly 7000 runes saved up and wanted to make a super defensive minion build, however, haven’t come across a single glancing blow or deathchill rune. This makes it virtually impossible for skeleton archers or cryomancers to freeze anything at high levels, effectively making any and all related passives etc totally useless.
Also, the loot filter doesn’t work properly when highlighting things i’ve ticked off. Rather than highlight exactly what I’ve specified, it randomly chooses garbage to highlight instead.
The Deathchill affix is very rare, also glancing blow affixes were removed in 0.7.10 with the defense re-work & the emphasise rule is a bit wonky (& has been reported).
But why is it so rare? It’s barely even usable anyway considering the lack of minion skills that would even utilise it. Seems a bit retarded that a primalist can freeze an entire screen easily, yet my minions don’t get a halfcocked chance to freeze anything without 10000000hrs grinding
The Deathchill shard has a rarity rating of “Rare” on Tunklabs with a level requirement of 57 which typically means that you’ll want to be playing one of the Acolyte Masteries in an area level of 57+ for your best chance of this affix dropping on a Body or Helm armour piece. You can then Shatter the item for a chance to get the shard(s) or just use the item.
Ive been blasting thru lvl70+ endgame repeatedly with lich and summoner, both lvl80 and found 1. However, it still hasn’t been explained why they are rare. As I said, currently cold dmg minions are useless. And from the look of the shard scaling, it doesn’t seem to me like the deathchill shards are OP, if anything they look UP.
There are many class specific affixes that are equally as rare as Deathchill, but as to why it is this rare, well I could ask the same of the other affixes at this rarity tier. But only the developers know and we’re not privy to those conversations. I can only assume they’re more useful than they let on, with the correct build.
And lastepochtools.com has it as “very rare”, which I’d argue is more in line with the amount that OP has found. Why it is so rare I don’t know. With max roll T5 affixes on helm & chest you’d get 475% freeze multi, which isn’t a small amount, though it’s also quite a bit less than you’d get with a max roll (or even a min roll!) Frozen Eyes of Formosus amulet 150%-300% feeze multi per stack of chill, so up to 450%-900% freeze multi with 3 stacks of chill, which isn’t too difficult to achieve & that’s just 1 affix on 1 item.
