Need help on the skill Heart of Frost..

[SonSonMushi]

How does it work? It says it slows movement and attack speed, but while I have Nimbus activated, nothing happens. It says retaliation so I figured that meant when I'm hit maybe they'll be slowed? but that doesn't work either. I thought, "maybe it's like when it does lightning damage there's no slow, and when it does ice damage it does slow" but for the last 2 hours of gameplay, I have yet to see it slow.

Am I stupid? Or is it broken? Or both lol please help if you know about this

[Yamss]

hey! a little late to the party but I have the same exact problem... I think the spell is broken since there is no feedback or effect.

[JewelryStar]

Retaliation mean when enemies attack you with melee attack, they will take that dmg/effect.

[redgreen999]

I have also noticed that its effect seems to be very little. I think there are 2 things going on. One is slow doesn't really become noticable until you have 50% or more applied. Level 8 HoF only slows by 38%. It should stack with other slow debuffs though. Slow will cap at 80% and by then it is very pronounced.

The other thing is creatures can have slow resistance which will shorten the slow duration. The extreme for this example is end bosses. You can't slow them at all. At least my toons never have because they must have massive slow/stun resistance.

[rulikstanislav]

resistance to slow does not affect the duration of the effect but the speed itself, unlike stun, entrapment,freeze etc. - because these are effects and slow is debuff.

Anyway you are correct about the "too little" amount of slow to be effective in higher difficulty since monsters gain boost to theirs total speed(+5% for epic ; +10% for legendary if i recall correctly) and resistances.

anything up to 40% of slow is only visible to the eye in normal difficulty and once you start epic it´s like it´s no longer there. Any amount above 50% in legendary becomes necessary.

I do not know if the skill "heart of frost" is indeed bugged or not, but the debuff is applied by retaliation - meaning it´s only against melee attackers. -> like mentioned above.

[redgreen999]

Originally posted by rulikstanislav:

resistance to slow does not affect the duration of the effect but the speed itself, unlike stun, entrapment,freeze etc. - because these are effects and slow is debuff.

Thanks for that. Still learning after playing 800 hours.