Frostbitten Heart Gemma Leveling Guide

Welcome to the Frostbitten Heart Gemma Leveling Guide. Gemma's Frostbitten Heart Trait specializes in Cold Skills, Frostbite, and Freezing enemies.

Treasure Troves

Treasure Troves are a way to super-charge your leveling experience. They give vastly more experience than regular zones and yield exclusive Legendary items. You need to complete each of them once for a Talent Point. For an easier leveling experience, you repeat the Treasure Trove until you're 7-8 levels above the zone, then rush through the next few areas. Follow your side quest to find the Treasure Trove locations.

Keep an eye out for the following Legendary items as you clear Treasure Troves.

• New Ear Hills (L7): Look out for Elemental Whisper Belt, Omniscient Prototype and Lonesome
• Nectar Valley (L16): Look out for Grace Boots and Photophobia
• Dawn Avenue (L27): Look out for Omniscient Prototype and anything missing from earlier Treasure Troves
• Sanctuary of Solitude (L35): Look out for Sage's Foresight.
• Silver Sands' End (L44): Look out for Chain of Resistance and Corrupted Marrow.
• Hall of Grandiosity (L54): Look out for Corrupted Marrow and anything you still don't have from prior Treasure Troves.

Leveling Tips and Tricks

• Your first active skill slot (top left in the Skills menu) is your "Main Skill," this matters because many items and Hero Traits have effects that only apply to the Main Skill.
• If you're ever in doubt of where to go, click the campaign quest on the left of your screen and a golden path shows you the way.
• This guide assumes you get most of your levels through Treasure Troves and rush to the objectives in other zones for maximum efficiency.
• When allocating Pact Points, prioritize Resistance first, then select Damage nodes until you fill the section. If you have leftover points, put them into Drop nodes as you begin farming the Netherrealm.
• Complete all 10 Levels of the Hero Forge to unlock all of your Hero Trait abilities and gain 6 additional Talent Points.
• All support gems become available from the Skill Shop at level 55. At this stage cross reference with the embeds to make sure you're set up for the Netherrealm.
• In Chapter 3 gear you find comes with varying amounts of Energy, after changing your gear, be sure to go to the Energy Menu under Skills to reassign missing Energy.

Equipment & Stat Priorities

Core Skills

• Ice Lances is a projectile skill that gets a large damage bonus from Frost Terra and Freezes enemies from a distance. Whenever you are fighting tougher enemies, be sure to drop a Frost Terra under them to maximize your damage.
• Frost Terra is the skill you transition into fully around level 70. For the early parts of leveling, it works in the background supporting the damage from Ice Lances.
• Blink has the lowest cooldown of all movement skills so it is recommended. While Frigid Transmission does reset on Freeze, you frequently clear screens ahead of yourself which makes this movement skill much worse.
• Compound Source is your main way to quickly Restore Life and Mana whenever needed.
• Blurry Steps is great to clear distances quickly once you have cleared enemies ahead of you with the long range on Ice Lances.

Leveling Progression

WARNING: The following levels are a guideline, you might complete the quest/unlock the Skill a few levels early, or a few levels later!

Talents

As you progress the build further and have multiple sources of Reaping and Affliction effect for Reap Purification, you are better off swapping fully onto Frost Terra. Do not rush into this earlier than level 70 before you have found the required gear pieces for it.

Utilize a customized Loot Filter to acquire the Affliction effect gear and Reaping gear as quickly as possible. Check out the Loot Filter Guide to build your own.

Traits, Relics and Memories

Hero Traits

Relics and Memories

Look for any combination of the following stats on your Hero Relics and Memories;

Divinity Slates

When leveling Frostbitten Gemma, look for any Divinity Slates containing these talents;

Pacts

The Netherrealm

Racing through your Netherrealm quests as quickly as possible results in you becoming under leveled for the required zones to progress further, stay within 3 levels of the zones you're completing to avoid a harsh experience penalty. Check out our How to Progress the Netherrealm if you're unsure of anything.

Here's a list of things to do while progressing the early stages of the Netherrealm;

• Level 60, The Trade House is unlocked. Be sure to read and understand our Trade House for Beginners Guide before making any big purchases.
• Higher item levels of gear come with higher quantities of Energy. Look to improve your current gear with items that have increased Energy so that you can use more Support Skills.
• Utilize Prototype Crafting and Enchanting to greatly increase the power of gear you come across. It costs very low amounts of Flame Sand to lock 1 good affix in place and reroll up to 4 new modifiers. Legendary Gear with Legendary Aptitude allows you to roll mods and craft on those items well.

Transitioning to Endgame

Weapon

Look for the following stats on your Wands. Affliction effect is your most important stat and you MUST have it on every piece of gear possible.

• Prefixes:
  • + to Spell Skill Level and Cold Skill Level
  • Cold Damage, Elemental Damage or Spell Damage
  • Intelligence
• Suffixes:
  • Affliction Effect
  • Damage to Frozen Enemies
  • Reap 0.1s of DoT Damage
  • Aura Effect
• Craft your weapon using prototype crafting until you hit any useful modifier along with affliction effect.
• Use Targeted Processing to add more modifiers from the above list until the item has 5 modifiers.
• Enchant your item with a 6th modifier.

Remaining Gear

Focus on crafting the remainder of your Armor and Jewelry with the following goals in mind;

• Get Affliction effect on all gear possible (Rings, Belt, Amulet, Weapons)
• Cap all of your Resistances at the 60% maximum.
• Have a healthy Life pool.
  • Scale Energy Shield for additional defenses.
• Reap 0.1s of DoT Damage on at least a few pieces of gear (Belt, Amulet, Weapons, Gloves)
• Increase your Cold or Spell levels (Boots and Gloves)

Legendary Items

Leveling

Keep an eye out for the following common items during your leveling journey:

• Elemental Whisper Belt is another common Legendary, and a good way to get damage early on.
• Grace Boots offer easy access to Movement Speed on builds which stack Focus Blessings.
• Chain of Resistance a great early game item offering much needed single target damage early on.
• Photophobia provides you with Beacon allowing you to grab Winter earlier than you would normally.
• Spring Resurrection offers nice extra survivability and damage.

Set Items

As you complete the Netherrealm be sure to farm the following Voyager's Commemorative Set items.

• Voyager's Commemorative Cape
• Voyager's Commemorative Strap
• Voyager's Commemorative Boots
• Voyager's Commemorative Cufflinks
• Voyager's Commemorative Pinky Ring x2

Endgame

The following items are frequently very affordable and offer powerful effects;

• Corrupted Marrow is the first piece of gear towards your Frost Terra build and one that you can use forever. This allows you to summon an additional Frost Terra which doubles your damage.
• Kingly Armor negates the downside of reduced Terra Charge speed from Corrupted Marrow. Using these together is extremely powerful.
• Strange Snow provides a large amount of Affliction effect scaling at a low cost and allows you to quickly get maximum Affliction on enemies.
• King's Boon is your last highly recommended Legendary as it provides a ton of additional damage.

Continue the Journey

Congratulations on completing the Frostbitten Heart Gemma Leveling guide! To continue your Endgame journey check our Build Database!

Video Guide

To see more Frostbitten Gemma in action, check out this video.

Credits

Written by: CoffeeBns
Reviewed by: Tenkiei