Is there and ideal build for a Control Wizard that wants to use Cold skills?

errab

Greetings All,

I'm currently hitting level 42 with my Control Wizard and I've only been playing Neverwinter for a bit more than a week so I'm now trying to start to figure out what I want to do at level 60.

I'm trying to learn how to setup my Wizard to get the most out of her cold skills but I'll most likely need to respec my powers and feat points to make sure everything that I use belongs with a cold build.

I was hoping to get some kind of a outline on what the ideal Cold Control Wizard build should look like.

I was hoping to use Chilling Cloud and Icy Ray has my left and right mouse attacks but I think that Magic Missile might be better than Chilling Cloud.

Any advice is greatly welcome

uurbs

((T2)) Thaumaturge Spec/Powers/Role

freedumb4eva

I've never tried Oppressor, but I have had a go at A Thaumaturge Build that utilizes mostly cold encounters. I've tried that T2 Thaumaturge build in the link in the post above mine, but I've chosen a few key differences.

The best advice that I can provide is to choose what feels comfortable for you.

degraafination

Oppressors own in level 60 PVP. Just respeced mine and the control/damage output is insane when you stack chills on people.

kerrovitarra

degraafination wrote: »

<Incert spec here> own in level 60 PVP. Just respeced mine and the control/damage output is insane when you stack chills on people.

Fixed.
There can be holywar, but in PvP spec doesn't affect anything. I'm running in thau spec, someone runs in rene, you run opp, and we all effective. Oppressor rely on chill, thau rely on damage, rene rely on whatever rules random.

parmezana1

Oppressor here and I use Chills mostly to deal damage. And when I say damage I mean a decent one. Let's not talk about the Freeze. I haven't tried Thaumaturge/Renegade, but as an oppressor, the feats themselves are giving special boosts to the Chill powers, but do not target directly at damage as Thau/Rene.

freedumb4eva

kerrovitarra wrote: »

Fixed.
There can be holywar, but in PvP spec doesn't affect anything. I'm running in thau spec, someone runs in rene, you run opp, and we all effective. Oppressor rely on chill, thau rely on damage, rene rely on whatever rules random.

This has nothing to do with the thread.

oroness

you can effectively build a CW to use frost spells and select the feats that will synergise with the chill mechanic, but then the couple of elitists will come to you and say "IM BETTERZ BECOZ iCONTROL OAKY BUT I HAS BIG NUMBERZ TOO AND I HAS A BIG PEN".

It literally seems that you MUST spec on full dps because a control wizard cannot spec as full control because.... no.

Haven't found a valid reason yet, i'm hoping to see the light someday.

freedumb4eva

oroness wrote: »

you can effectively build a CW to use frost spells and select the feats that will synergise with the chill mechanic, but then the couple of elitists will come to you and say "IM BETTERZ BECOZ iCONTROL OAKY BUT I HAS BIG NUMBERZ TOO AND I HAS A BIG PEN".

It literally seems that you MUST spec on full dps because a control wizard cannot spec as full control because.... no.

Haven't found a valid reason yet, i'm hoping to see the light someday.

There are very few players who act that way tbh... but they are quite loud about it.

If the OP really likes frost encounters then I would suggest trying Oppressor. Perhaps copy a character to the test server and try some builds.