Key Points
- Rime takes on the role of a ranged spell-casting damage dealer.
- Rime uses her abilities to fill up the Anima Bar that creates Winter Orbs.
- Winter Orbs deal massive amounts of damage.
- However, these cap at 5, so managing this limitation is key to making the build work.
If you are looking for a spell-casting damage dealer from a safe distance, then Rime is the perfect character to base your build around in Fellowship.
Rime Build Overview
| Character | Rime |
| Playstyle | Ranged Spellcaster DPS |
| Spirit Ability | Refunds Winter Orb |
| Damage Type | Single Target and AoE Damage Dealing |
Best Abilities for Rime
- Frostbolt: Throw a bolt of magic, dealing 234% intellect damage.
- Cold Snap: Deal cold at the enemy, dealing 304% intellect damage.
- Freezing Torrent: Release a beam of frost energy that deals 142% intellect damage for 2 seconds.
- Bursting ice: Summon an icy crystal inside the target, dealing frost damage, dealsing 55% intellect damage for 3 seconds.
- Frost Ward: Take 40% reducing damage for 4 seconds.
- Ice Dash: Cover short distances with a dash.
- Glacial Blast: Requires 2 Winter Orbs to throw mass ice at the enemy, dealing 990% intellect damage.
- Ice Comet: costs 2 Winter Orbs, dealing 451% AoE damage to all enemies in the radius.
- Ice Blitz: Get into the state of focus, dealing 20% damage for 20 seconds.
- Flight of Navir: Summon 5 Frost Swallows for 20 seconds, use Cold Snap and Freezing Torrent to make these lunge at enemies, dealing 68% intellect damage.
- Frigid Winds: Release Arctic Winds, knocking back enemies and slowing by 50% for 12 seconds.
- Winter’s Blessing: Raises spirit by 20% for 20 seconds, and 30% damage dealt is replicated as healing, applying to all of your allies.
- Wrath of Winter: Grants 1 Winter Orb for 4 seconds, and you deal 25% more damage, and you can release Glacial Blast instantly while this Wrath of Winter, spirit ability is active.
Best for single-target damage dealing: Flight of Navir, Bursting Ice, Freezing Torrent, or Glacial Blast and Cold Snap.
Best for AoE damage: Freezing Torrent, Bursting Ice, Cold Snap, and Ice Comet.
Best Talents for Rime
- Winter’s Embrace: Makes you deal 20% more damage.
- Burstbolter: When the Frost Bolt hits, Burstbolter will allow it to release pulsing damage and help you gain two additional Anima.
- Icy Flow: Improves your Cold Snap with Icy Flow for 8 seconds, lowering the cast time.
- Avalanche: Ice Comet now has 15% to strike twice and 7% chance to strike three times.
- Cascading Blitz: Conjure a single Frost Swallow for each Anima you generate during your Ice Blitz episode.
- Frostweaver’s Wrath: 17% chance to Frostweaver’s Wrath for 12 seconds each time you generate Winter Orbs.
The best talents are Winter’s Embrace and Burstbolter. If you don’t like Burstbolter, switch to Navir’s Keeper.
Stat Priority for Rime Build
- Intellect: It goes without saying, since most of the abilities will deal intellect-based damage.
- Haste: Will override your cooldowns, making your casting spell even shorter.
- Spirit: Lowers the cooldown of your ultimate, and refunds on Winter Orbs.
- Critical Strike: Adds double damage to your abilities and helps with the Winter’s Blessing healing.
- Expertise: Raises your damage and healing, a flat line base stat.
Also Read: The Best Sylvie Build in Fellowship
Best Gear for Rime
- Gear: Skandi’s Sabatons of Endless Winter: Raises stamina, intellect, haste, and spirit.
- Gear: Drakesblood Tapestry: Freezing Torrent grants Frostwyrm’s Spite that increases your Cold Snap damage.
- Gear: Eldrin Amulet of Undulating Spirits: Geta 10% chance to make your next ability trigger a Spirit Refund.
- Weapon: Asha’s Chronoshift Spire: It creates an arcane anomaly, dealing pulse damage to any enemies around your location. While channeling pulse damage, Rime will also get 400% increased CDR and take 50% less damage.
- Alternative: Voidbringer’s Touch.
- Relic: Sinbinding Stone: Grants 15% damage reduction to you and your allies.
- Relic: Grimoire of Resurrection: Revive an ally.
- Alternatives: Ancient Wardstone, Chalice of Al’zerac’s Essence, Saltwash Elixir, and Ancient Poultry Fetish.
The best part of Rime is the switch between single-target and AoE damage. You can use Ice Blitz and other skills on a single target and make a switch to Ice Comet for good AoE damage. The versatility mixed with the talent could make Rime a best ranged spellcaster DPS dealer in Fellowship.
FAQs
How to use the talent Winter’s Embrace?
When you use Bursting Ice, you will gain Winter’s Embrace, helping you deal 20% more damage for 3 seconds.
How to reduce damage while playing as Rime?
You must rely on Frost Ward to get 40% damage reduction for 4 seconds on 30 30-second cooldown.
How to deal more damage with Rime?
You can cast Glacial Blast on a single target, dealing damage based on the Winter’s Orb in your possession. The damage of the Glacial Blast will rely on the Winter Orb you have.
