PoE Frozen Legion of Rallying Build 3.25 – Path of Exile: Settlers of Kalguur

The Frozen Legion of Rallying build in Path of Exile leverages the unique mechanics of summoning icy statues to deliver powerful area-of-effect melee attacks. This build emphasizes maximizing the potential of the Frozen Legion skill by enhancing cold damage, attack speed, and cooldown recovery rate. Additionally, the rallying aspect of the build focuses on optimizing the synergy between the player and the summoned statues to create a formidable offensive force. This guide will provide a comprehensive overview of how to optimize a Frozen Legion of Rallying build in the 3.25 patch, ensuring you maximize the damage output and effectiveness of your icy statues.

Key Features of Frozen Legion of Rallying

Frozen Legion of Rallying (Level 20):

  • Spell, Cold, Attack, AoE, Melee: Frozen Legion of Rallying is a spell that summons multiple icy statues in a ring around the caster. Each statue uses the Frozen Sweep attack once before vanishing.
  • Mana Cost: 23 mana.
  • Cooldown Time: 0.30 seconds (5 uses).
  • Cast Time: 0.70 seconds.
  • Quality: +20%.
  • Requirements: Requires Level 70, 98 Strength, 68 Intelligence.
  • Statue and Frozen Sweep Mechanics:
    • 20% increased cooldown recovery rate.
    • Consumes one cooldown use per statue summoned.
    • Frozen Sweep:
      • Attack Speed: 70% of base.
      • Attack Damage: 184.9% of base.
      • Effectiveness of Added Damage: 184%.
      • Converts 100% of physical damage to cold damage.
      • Only statues can use this skill; it cannot be used by the player directly.

PoE Frozen Legion of Rallying Build 3.25

Building Around Frozen Legion of Rallying

1. Weapon Choice:

  • High Physical and Cold Damage Weapons: Prioritize weapons with high base physical damage and cold damage. Maces, Sceptres, Axes, or Staves are required for the build.

2. Passive Skill Tree:

  • Focus on nodes that enhance cold damage, spell damage, melee damage, area of effect, and cooldown recovery rate. Specific clusters to prioritize include those near the Marauder, Templar, and Witch start areas.
  • Consider pathing to nodes that increase life, resistances, and defensive attributes to maintain survivability.

Ascendancy Choices

1. Chieftain:

  • Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance: Provides increased physical damage conversion to fire, which can be modified to cold damage.
  • Hinekora, Death’s Fury: Grants life leech and increased damage.
  • Tawhoa, Forest’s Strength: Increases physical damage and enhances totem skills.
  • Ramako, Sun’s Light: Provides increased elemental damage and life recovery.

2. Hierophant:

  • Divine Guidance: Grants increased mana and energy shield, enhancing survivability.
  • Sanctuary of Thought: Provides reduced mana cost and increased spell damage.
  • Illuminated Devotion: Increases elemental damage and grants elemental resistances.
  • Arcane Blessing: Provides increased spell damage and cast speed.

Support Gems

1. Main Skill Setup:

  • Frozen Legion: Primary spell skill.
  • Support Gems: Hypothermia, Increased Area of Effect, Cold Penetration, Elemental Focus, and Concentrated Effect.

2. Secondary Skill Setup:

  • Vortex / Cold Snap: For additional cold damage and area control.
  • Support Gems: Bonechill, Hypothermia, and Controlled Destruction.

3. Utility Skills:

  • Frostbite: For increased cold damage and reduced enemy resistances.
  • Support Gems: Increased Duration and Enhance.
  • Steelskin / Immortal Call: For defense.
  • Flame Dash: For mobility.

Armor and Accessories

1. Armor:

  • Body Armor: Prioritize armor with high life, resistances, and cold damage bonuses. Consider options like Carcass Jack for increased area of effect and damage.
  • Helmet, Gloves, and Boots: Look for items that boost cold damage, life, resistances, and defensive attributes. Consider using items with increased armor and evasion.

2. Accessories:

  • Amulet and Rings: Focus on items that enhance cold damage, spell damage, life, and resistances. Look for mods that increase mana regeneration and cooldown recovery rate.
  • Belt: A Stygian Vise with life, resistances, and increased cold damage is ideal.

Flask Setup

1. Life Flask:

  • Instant Recovery: For emergency healing.

2. Utility Flasks:

  • Granite Flask: For increased armor.
  • Basalt Flask: For physical damage reduction.
  • Quicksilver Flask: For increased movement speed.
  • Diamond Flask: For increased critical strike chance.
  • Silver Flask: For increased movement and attack speed.

Combat Strategy

1. Engaging Enemies:

  • Use Frozen Legion of Rallying to summon icy statues that deal significant area-of-effect cold damage. Maintain high uptime on your statues by managing cooldowns effectively.

2. Utilizing Ascendancy Passives:

  • Leverage the Chieftain or Hierophant passives to enhance your defenses, mana, and spell damage. Use Chieftain for increased life leech and elemental damage, and Hierophant for enhanced mana and energy shield.

3. Managing Buffs and Debuffs:

  • Maintain high uptime on Frostbite and other debuffs to increase cold damage and reduce enemy resistances.
  • Use your flasks to boost damage, resistances, and survivability during combat.

Example Builds

1. Chieftain Frozen Legion of Rallying Build:

  • Focus on physical to cold damage conversion and life leech.
  • Utilize Ngamahu, Flame’s Advance and Hinekora, Death’s Fury to maximize cold damage and survivability.
  • Use support gems that enhance cold damage and area of effect.

2. Hierophant Frozen Legion of Rallying Build:

  • Focus on increased mana and energy shield for enhanced survivability.
  • Utilize Divine Guidance and Sanctuary of Thought to maximize spell damage and reduce mana costs.
  • Use support gems that enhance spell damage and cooldown recovery rate.

Conclusion

The Frozen Legion of Rallying build for Path of Exile 3.25 offers a unique and powerful playstyle for players who enjoy combining spellcasting with melee attacks. By focusing on maximizing cold damage, attack speed, and cooldown recovery rate, players can effectively dominate both single-target and group encounters. Proper gear selection, passive skill tree planning, and strategic use of ascendancy passives will ensure that you unleash the full potential of this powerful skill. Equip your weapons, prepare your flasks, and summon the icy might of the Frozen Legion to rally your forces and shatter your enemies with overwhelming force.

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