Talk:Frost/@comment-198.53.222.181-20180603025759/@comment-198.53.222.181-20181014080147

What is wrong with you people? I am the one doing the testing within the Simulacrum actually confirming everything. You CAN'T apply status effects to enemies frozen by either Freeze or Avalanche. And you definitely CAN extend the duration of Bleed/Slash Procs with freezes (because it freezes the current state of status effects on the target, preventing them from getting new ones and preventing any current ones from wearing off), but even I haven't managed to find any useful application with this gimmick. Please try these things out yourself before you make false counterarguements, otherwise people can't take what you say as being valid.

From a scaling and high-level content perspective, Frost is objectively worse than Volt. Volt has invulnerable shields that you can actually shoot through both ways and don't take much practice to place in a square. You know exactly how long they will last without breaking on you taking 5 hits or less at high levels. You typically wouldn't be running Volt without a high efficiency build anyway.

Volt's 4 is functionally similar to Frost's 4, but actually allows you and your team to easily kill the enemies being CC'd because you can apply status effects on them. The only situation where Avalanche would be beneficial, is if your team or you are ONLY relying on high-damage crit weapons, but most weapons rely on Status Effects of some kind to kill, whether it's Slash, Viral, Corrosive, or Condition Overload so you actually end up making them harder to kill when they are frozen. Avalanche doesn't even reduce armor permantly, and the fact that you can't apply Status offsets the bonus you get from the temporary armor reduction.

Frost is "fine" at low levels and at times potentially better than Volt at the specific defensive role. But there's no denying he needs a little help to push him up there.