Help w/Biting Cold

[epicsimian]

Any suggestions on how to trigger this achievement? Does the ice barrage spell count as a single spell cast or multiple? Is the best spell to use that breath of ice channeled cone?

[Jeslis]

Remind us what Biting Cold's requirements are? eg; 1500 spell dmg in single cast? or..?

[Hunubul]

Channeling spells count as one cast until you release the button.

[epicsimian]

Yes the 1500 dmg in 1 cast

[epicsimian]

Technically you can hold the button for ice barrage after it's completely drained and it will release more shards as it recharges. Does that still count as 1 cast? If yes, that would make it fairly trivial to unlock this achievement.

[Jeslis]

Unfortunately I'm unsure on ice barrage.

The way I recall having done that achievement is having enough spell regen/charges and crit +crit damage.. and using 1 FULL cast of icebeam on the first boss.

[Hunubul]

Originally posted by epicsimian:

Technically you can hold the button for ice barrage after it's completely drained and it will release more shards as it recharges. Does that still count as 1 cast? If yes, that would make it fairly trivial to unlock this achievement.

If a spell is depleted, channeling ends.

Also I unlocked this by using the throwable ice bomb (forgot name), in the middle of a lot of enemies. At least if I remember correctly.

[epicsimian]

The throwable ice bomb, frost cloud or ice cloud is the name. The damage is divided evenly by the all the targets it hits. So if it does 240 damage with skills and you hit 10 targets it only deals 24 damage to each target. I don't think it's possible to unlock that achievement with this spell unless it was altered from a past version. Or you are literally over 600% spell power.

Not to derail the conversation but talking about 600% spell power makes me wonder if you have multiple circles of power that give +50% spell power do they stack?

[GrimReaper]

Well if it's help someone - I do it easy on 2nd stage (28 character lvl) with Ice rain - take staff with +25% charges. On 28 lvlv 1 icicle do about 60 dmg and about 190 crit dmg. And when charges end it still fire one by one (cos their regen 0.5 sec) and it's count it!

[Astyanax17]

Confirmed on the current Switch build: You can hold ZR and channel "frost beam" into a group. Even if it depletes your bar, keep holding it and doing damage to a group of monsters. Have as much crit/crit dmg/spell regen/charges as possible.

If there's 1500 HP worth of monsters, you can get this easily. (tested with the original Cornelius with the +25% ice charges staff on level 2, character level 30)