If speccing for critical damage isn't your cup of tea, you can also use Frozen Orb and its respective enchantment for easy freeze and vulnerability generation.Įnhanced: Frost Bolt has a 15% chance to explode on chilled enemies, increased to 100% on frozen targets. And for content where that isn't enough, we scale critical stats through the use of the Fire Bolt enchantment and the Devouring Blaze passive. We use Frost Nova to inflict vulnerability on targets, allowing you to scale vulnerability damage sources to multiply your damage output against tankier Elites and bosses.

Ice Shards is also a great build for endgame content with some investment.

The best part is nearly every core Legendary for this build can be crafted, making this fantastic for leveling.

You'll have access to four defensive skills, generate Barrier constantly, and clear hordes of monsters with little issue. We'll be using Ice Shard's chain augment to have it ricochet while you have Barrier, something we easily acquire through Ice Armor and cooldown skill usage. This build focuses on making Ice Shards as powerful as possible, inflicting as much chill and vulnerability as possible to ramp up our damage. Mediocre single-target DPS without investment.

Icy veins wizard diablo 3