Fellowship Rime Hero Guide

Rime is an Intelligence-based DPS hero who excels at ranged frost magic. She builds Anima through her abilities, creating Winter Orbs, and converts both into devastating burst spells. Positioning and resource flow are key — when managed correctly, she delivers explosive AoE and strong single-target damage.

This guide will teach you the basics of playing Rime in Fellowship, how to use her abilities, and which talents to choose for the best build.

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Rime’s Abilities

Ability/Icon	Name	Cast / Recast	Range / Radius	Effect
	Frostbolt	1.5s	↔ 30yd	Hurl a bolt of frost magic at target enemy, dealing 234% Intellect damage. Generates 1 Anima
	Cold Snap	GCD 12.0s (2)	↔ 30yd	Assault the target with extreme cold, dealing 304% Intellect damage. Generates 1 Winter Orb
	Freezing Torrent	2s Channel 15.0s	↔ 30yd	Flay your target with a beam of frost energy, dealing 142% Intellect damage every 0.4 seconds for 2 seconds while channeling. Generates 1 Anima per tick
	Bursting Ice	2s 10.0s	↔ 30yd ↻ 5yd	Conjures an icy crystal inside a target that pulses frost damage, dealing 55% Intellect damage every 0.5 seconds for 3 seconds to the target and nearby enemies. Generates 1 Anima each time it pulses
	Frost Ward	Instant 30.0s	Self	You take 40% reduced damage for 4 seconds.
	Ice Dash	Instant 25.0s (2)	↔ 10yd	Quickly travel forward a short distance.
	Brain Freeze	Instant 20.0s	↔ 30yd	Interrupt the target’s spellcasting and prevent it from casting for 4 seconds.
	Glacial Blast	2.0s	↔ 30yd	Costs 2 Winter Orbs Hurl a mass of ice at target enemy, dealing 990% Intellect damage.
	Ice Comet	GCD	↔ 30yd	Costs 2 Winter Orbs Unleash a large Ice Comet from above target enemy to crash down on them, dealing 451% Intellect damage to all enemies caught in the impact radius.
	Ice Blitz	Instant 120.0s	Self	You enter a state of focused casting for 20 seconds, causing you to deal 20% more damage for the duration.
	Flight of the Navir	GCD 60.0s	↔ 30yd	Summon 5 frost swallows to circle above target enemy for 20 seconds. Your Cold Snap and Freezing Torrent command the frost swallows to swoop down on enemies, each dealing 68% Intellect damage to their target. FRACTURE Any time a frost swallow deals damage to an enemy it has a 35% chance to Fracture, dealing damage equal to 70% of the initial hit to other nearby enemies.
	Frigid Winds	Instant 60.0s	↔ 10yd	Blast enemies in front of you with arctic winds, Knocking Back enemies and Slowing them by 50% for 12 sec. Interrupts spells and abilities.
	Winter’s Blessing	Instant 60.0s	Self	Your Spirit is increased by 20% for 20 seconds and 30% of all damage you deal is replicated as healing divided equally between all allies.
	Wrath of Winter	1.0s SPIRIT ABILITY	Self	Invoke the spirits of the frozen tundra for 20 seconds, granting you 1 Winter Orb every 4 seconds. You deal +25% increased damage and your Glacial Blast ability is instant cast while Wrath of Winter is active. Spirit Ability When you activate your Spirit ability you gain Spirit of Heroism, granting +30% haste for 20 seconds.

Anima and Winter Orbs Mechanic

Rime generates Anima which converts into a Winter Orb at 9 stacks. Winter Orbs are then spent to cast powerful burst spells, Glacial Blast for single target and Ice Comet for Area of Effect (AoE). Winter Orbs cap at 5, so actively managing orb generation and spending to keep your damage up, save for bursts, but also not waste any through over-capping.

Orbs and Anima are shown on the HUD just under the character.

Rime Talents and Build

Rime has a couple of viable choices for talent builds. We are suggesting the Winter’s Embrace build to give stronger burst windows with your Winter Orbs and later on weapon abilities.

Winter’s Embrace (1B) gives a 3 second burst window where all of your damage is increased at the end of the Bursting Ice cast. Even without haste, you’ll easily be able to fit two of your strongest abilities available in here each window, every ~12 seconds.

Burstbolter (2A) gives 3x as much Anima on any filler Frostbolt cast, and also causes it to do an extra amount of AoE damage. Whatever build you go with, it’s important to have some extra resource generating talent like this one or Navir’s Keeper (2C).

Avalanche (3B) causes your Ice Comets to have a chance to double and triple cast for free, greatly increasing your average AoE damage.

Coalescing Frost (3C) adds an extra AoE burst damage to Freezing Torrent, additionally aiding in burning trash mobs down.

Greater Glacial Blast (4B) is taken after you reach the next rank, and have a bit more sub-stats to work with. It will take a little bit getting used to but extra haste will make it better. It significantly increases the damage during your Wraith of Winter which makes it instant anyway.

Frostweaver’s Wrath (5B) is taken to boost your damage significantly. Frostweaver’s Wrath can stack up to 2 times, so you don’t need to worry about over-capping or losing the buff.

Wisdom of the North (6C) significantly reduces your longer cooldowns, offering more larger burst windows within the time-frame of a dungeon.

Biting Cold (6A) is raw critical power, cheap for 1 point and isn’t affected by diminishing returns.

Remember to not take talent trees as is and adjust for any legendary or weapon trees you get.

Rime Openers and Rotations

When playing Rime, you want to balance keeping your important Anima and Winter Orb generators Bursting Ice, Freezing Torrent and Cold Snap on cool-down while using your Glacial Blast and Ice Comet as needed either to prevent over-capping or during burst windows.

Finally, if you’ve exhausted all other options, Frostbolt can be used as a filler cast.

Winter’s Embrace Burst Windows

Through Ice Blitz, Winter’s Blessing and the Winter’s Embrace talent you’ll get far more value out of your Winter Orb attacks instead of using them right away. You’re able to store up to 5 Winter Orbs and 8 Anima before overcapping, which still gives you room to keep Bursting Ice and Freezing Torrent on cool-down.

Winter’s Embrace lasts 3 seconds which allows for a 2 second cast of Glacial Blast, and an instant cast such as Cold Snap or Ice Comet. With 50%+ haste achievable with legendary boots, you can fit 3 GCDs inside of one Winter’s Embrace window.

Single Target Priority

Keep everything on cool-down, ensuring you do not overcap with Cold Snap by casting Glacial Blast as necessary. When using Wrath of Winter, you can fit two Glacial Blasts in a single Winter’s Embrace, instead of the Ice Comet.

1. Ice Blitz
2. Winter’s Blessing
3. Flight of the Navir
4. Bursting Ice
5. Freezing Torrent
6. Cold Snap
7. Glacial Blast
8. Frost Bolt

AoE Priority

Keep everything on cool-down, ensuring you do not overcap with Cold Snap by casting Ice Comet as necessary. Aim to build up 4 Winter Orbs for each Winter’s Embrace window.

1. Ice Blitz
2. Winter’s Blessing
3. Flight of the Navir
4. Freezing Torrent
5. Bursting Ice
6. Cold Snap
7. Ice Comet
8. Frost Bolt

Gearing and Stat Priority

Substats have the following effect for Rime:

• Critical Strike – Chance for damage effects to crit, doubling their effect. Many of Rime’s talents have interaction with Critical Strike as well, such as Biting Cold, Frostweaver’s Wrath and Talon’s Edict.
• Expertise – Increases all damage, healing and absorption effects triggered by Rime.
• Haste – Increases GCD speed (1.5s base), casting speed and the tick rate of damage and healing effects.
• Spirit – Increases the rate you charge your spirit ability. Every 1% of Spirit gives 0.5% chance to refund any Winter Orbs spent when using abilities that cost Winter Orbs.

Item level is king and will have the greatest effect on your damage. However, when choosing substats we need to consider the following.

Critical Strike affects Rime’s damage and there are effects that play off of critical strikes.

Expertise increases her damage by a flat percent.

Haste decreases the GCD and cast times of every spell, and the cooldown of Cold Snap. You’ll generate more Winter Orbs on average, and get more big casts out over the duration of a dungeon.

Spirit increases the frequency of her ultimate slightly and offers the chance to get free refunds on Winter Orbs. Spirit will give you more casts of Winter Orb abilities, and more opportunities to fit them inside Winter’s Embrace windows.

Gearing Priority

1. Weapon Tree
2. Legendary Item
3. Item Level
4. Completed Set Bonus
5. Substat Priority

Substat Priority

1. Haste
2. Spirit
3. Crit
4. Expertise

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