Has anybody made Frosbite + Reap work?

[Mike Cox Long]

I've been trying but they just dont do well. On paper they synergize well, DPS tick that will destroy enemies over time but I hadnt had success. Has anybody had a run which they made this combo worK?

[Limdood]

You really never FOCUS on Reap unless you're using Decayer Spine Chief. Otherwise its just a delayed ping spell, probably worth stripping out of the deck when you can. The units that add Reap generally add small enough amounts to not really matter too much, and Reap won't help you during relentless unless you stack up enough to kill the boss outright after your units die, because it triggers at combat end, rather than the end of each round. If you ARE using Decayer Spine chief, then you generally want to focus on just playing all the infused cards you can...as many as you can, all infused, every turn, while keeping Chief alive....that's his strategy in a nutshell...WHAT the cards do hardly matters, as long as your whole hand is infused, and you can drop the whole thing on that floor each turn while keeping him alive.

Frostbite is a lot more versatile in that it will generally kill bosses during relentless rather effectively, but it lacks the multiplicative damage stacking of reap. If you're using frostbite tethys or Coldchannel Solgard, or an endless Titan Sentry, then that frostbite will add up on its own, and you really only have to worry about taking down the enemy tanks and heavies.

In the early game, its fine to use Fracture and Forgone Power together to work on making sure that waves die before they reach the Pyre, but its a temporary thing...after the first 3 battles, at most, you want to have gone one way or the other (or just gone with units with some light support from frostbite or reap). Neither one is powerful enough, in general, to work unless you go all-in on it, in which case it CAN be incredibly powerful (which generally requires investing heavily into a champion focused on that tactic, or getting the key artifacts that boost that damage type...Stygian has Cuttlebeard, and Wurmkin has the artifact that increases reap applications by 1, and the artifact that applies reap 1 randomly to an enemy unit twice when you generate an echo...along with great unit support and ideal spells.

In short....no. They really don't work that well together because they each require you to invest heavily to make them work, and you can't really invest heavily into two different things. They work fine together in the early game, but you should focus your strategy down by the time you hit ring 4, at the latest.

[Nightmyre]

Frostbite I've had tons of success with, especially with the champion that has frostbite when attacked.

Reap, on the other hand, no matter how much I've tried to make work - even using Spine Chief - I just cannot. It simply doesn't stack up fast enough from my experience.

[Wintersend]

double stack, -1 cost, and a the champion that recurs a consumed spell every turn along with the 2 cost spell that applies Reap 13 I had massive success with, just play it with few/no other consume spells, and throw 26 Reap on something every turn for 2 mana. I hit Seraph with over 1,000 damage from one proc of reap with that combo and it was enough to provide significant damage to the last divinity.

The rest of the deck did profit massively off playing Infused Cards and making everything infused, but it was by no means stacking significant other stacks of Reap.