Now that Mages have the Rune of Winter passive (converts Lightning Blast & Volcanic Orb to cold for 1 pt with additional freeze rate multiplier for additional points), does that make the Frozen Orb (VO) and Supercharged Floes (LB) nodes redundant?
Just to note - SF also converts shock chance from the tree to chill chance and gives freeze rate +46. FO has no additional benefit.
For LB: Does the SF freeze rate (since it’s phrased as additive) stack with the freeze rate of RoW? Or are they both considered as setting the base freeze rate?
I agree, the different nodes give flexibility. That being said, I was surprised that Rune of Winter was added since it doesn’t really add anything. I was more surprised to see that it doesn’t exactly duplicate the two nodes in the skills (mainly Supercharged Floes for LB). So I guess I can drop the Frozen Orb point but not Supercharged Floes. Strange.