Deep Freeze / Warhammer PvP Build

Season 7


 

Haste cap on a single Warhammer hit + the oppressive control and crazy survivability of Ice Gauntlet? Shuts down melee fighters instantly and hits like a truck? This build is is crazy strong.. it might actually be better than Inferno Hammer.

Check out a video guide with gameplay for this build!

 

Equipment / Attributes

 

Since Warhammer is the damage weapon here, the build is basically a full on STR build. Since diminishing returns hurt your damage scaling real bad after 400+ STR, it is well worth it to get 200 CON and 50 FOC for durability.

The Hammer would be perfect with Plagued Strikes instead of Shirking Nature. You MUST have a Runeglass DOT gem on your hammer to take advantage of the 1 hit haste buff from the Facilitated Expedition passive.

Since Deep Freeze hits like a noodle on this build the perks you choose don’t really matter, I would actually recommend not upgrading it until you want to use it for an INT based build!

The gear is awesome the way it is, with a few changes to make it perfect. I’d love to replace the two Health perks with Freedom, and the second Hasted Vigor perk with Elemental Aversion / Enchanted Ward.

Unending Thaw would be an amazing armor perk for extending the duration of Chill on targets after they exit Ice Storm.

The Tumbler Feetwraps are fantastic for solo PvP, but since the Warhammer can hit Empower cap without them you can use any artifact of choice here. Featherweight + two Frigid Dawn pieces would be awesome too!

The jewelry is perfect. You can also use the Phoenix Artifact amulet for this build since Warhammer is one of the best weapons for trading blows with opponents. This combo would give you some very surprising durability / burst opportunities.

Use the best food you can find, honing stones, and mana pots for that healthy toast perk! I prefer Infused Regeneration potions since they give the most healing out of all your choices in PvP.

 

Active Skills

 
 

Ice Gauntlet Skills

The Ice Gauntlet is focused purely on CC and survival. That being said you have to take a bunch of offensive passives from the Ice Tempest tree in order to get the VERY important Ultimate Chill passive.

The mana to stamina block passive gives this build a super strong block on both weapons!

 
 

Warhammer Skills

The classic Haste Hammer setup. Both Clear Out and Mighty Gavel will put this build at 45% Haste on a single hit, and over Haste cap if your running the Haste Food in OPR.

This setup also gives you 54% Rend and access to Warhammers best burst damage skills! Truly a hard hitting build.