Stasis

Hoarfrost — Silence and Squall (Stasis Hunter)

Self-sustaining crystal-seed-and-shatter Frost Armor engine; sprint-fuelled add clear paired with Verglas Curve

Super: Silence and Squall
Class ability: Gambler's Dodge
Movement: Triple Jump
Melee: Withering Blade
Grenade: Duskfield
Aspect 1: Grim Harvest
Aspect 2: Touch of Winter
Fragments: Whisper of Rending (Primary-ammo weapons do increased damage to Stasis crystals and frozen targets — a straight Verglas buff), Whisper of Shards (shattering a crystal boosts grenade recharge, stacking per crystal — the reseed accelerant), Whisper of Fissures (bigger, harder shatter bursts), Whisper of Conduction (nearby Stasis shards track to you → guarantees Grim Harvest's Frost Armor refresh; +10 Super, +10 Health). Net stat delta +10 Super / +10 Health. Alternates: Whisper of Rime (Frost Armor duration + max stacks → 8 stacks / 13s), Whisper of Chains (Frost-Armor kills can drop a shard; +10 Class).
Artifact: Slayer Baron Apothecary Satchel — Wind Chill + Crystalline Converter — Hail The Storm + Frost Renewal + Debilitating Wave — Served Cold + Brain Freeze

Full build: https://d2builds.pages.dev/hunter_hoarfrost.html

Centerpiece: Fr0st-EE5 (Legs) · Subclass: Revenant · Role: Self-sustaining crystal-seed-and-shatter Frost Armor engine; sprint-fuelled add clear paired with Verglas Curve Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-06-29

Verglas arrows plant Large Stasis crystals; shatter the field for Stasis shards, scoop them for Frost Armor, and that Frost Armor both juices Verglas's Stasis damage and arms a shatter-on-kill. Fr0st-EE5's sprint loop doubles grenade and melee regen and floods class-ability energy, so Duskfield and Withering Blade come back to reseed before the field stops shattering. One bow, one pair of legs, infinite ice.

The exotic

Fr0st-EE5 — Rapid Cooldown (Leg Armor, verbatim):

Increases grenade, melee, and dodge regeneration while sprinting.

Gain stacks of Frost Armor while sprinting. When you have Frost Armor, Stasis weapons deal additional damage.

Verglas Curve (Combat Bow, the dual-exotic partner, verbatim):

Hail Storm: Direct hits with Stasis arrows freeze combatants and slow opposing Guardians. Stasis arrows that impact the environment create Stasis crystals.

Hail Barrage: Final blows with this weapon grant Stasis arrows. Your next hip-fire shot will fire all of them in a single volley.

Shiver Quiver (catalyst): Freezing or slowing a target grants this weapon faster draw speed for a short period of time.

A dual-exotic loadout is legal — one armour piece plus one weapon — and these two interlock. Verglas plants the Large Stasis crystals and freezes packs on direct hits; shattering those crystals drops Stasis shards. Fr0st-EE5 turns sprinting into Frost Armor, and while you hold Frost Armor every Stasis weapon (Verglas included) hits harder, so the bow's damage and its own crystal-seeding scale off the armour. The legs' real value is the regen pump: sprint after a dodge and grenade, melee and class-ability energy all pour back, refunding the abilities that reseed and re-shatter the field. Verglas's catalyst keeps draw speed fast whenever something is frozen or slowed — which, in this build, is constantly.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Revenant (Stasis)	Native home of Frost Armor, Stasis crystals and the freeze/shatter verbs the whole loop runs on.
Super	Silence and Squall	Squall's roaming storm slows and freezes a whole pack, instantly seeding frozen targets for Verglas to crystallise and feeding the freeze-shatter-shard loop wholesale.
Class ability	Gambler's Dodge	The dodge is Fr0st-EE5's trigger — it grants the sprint buff and tops class regen, and dodging near enemies refunds Withering Blade. (Marksman's Dodge if you'd rather instant-reload Verglas.)
Movement	Triple Jump	Air control to reposition between reseeds; jump choice is preference and does not touch the loop.
Melee	Withering Blade	Ricocheting Stasis shuriken — slows and freezes for Verglas direct-hit value and can shatter the crystal field. Fr0st-EE5 doubles its regen while sprinting.
Grenade	Duskfield	With Touch of Winter: a larger slow-field plus a Stasis crystal on impact — a second crystal seeder. Fr0st-EE5's doubled regen plus Whisper of Shards make it the primary reseeder.
Aspect 1	Grim Harvest	The engine: picking up Stasis shards grants Frost Armor; with Frost Armor up, Stasis/Kinetic kills may shatter; taking damage with Frost Armor returns class-ability energy.
Aspect 2	Touch of Winter	Enhances Duskfield (bigger field plus a crystal on impact). More crystals = more shatters = more shards = more Frost Armor. (Shatterdive for on-demand detonation; Winter's Shroud for dodge-slow.)
Fragments	Rending / Shards / Fissures / Conduction	Verglas buff + reseed accelerant + bigger shatters + shard tracking that guarantees the Frost Armor refresh.
Exotic armour	Fr0st-EE5 (Legs)	The regen pump and the Frost Armor source; while you hold Frost Armor, Stasis weapons (Verglas) deal additional damage.
Weapons	Verglas Curve (Kinetic) · Chill Clip Stasis special (e.g. Riptide) · flex Stasis heavy	Bow seeds and shatters; Chill Clip special slows then freezes for champion teeth; a Stasis heavy rides the Frost-Armor damage buff for boss phases.

Fragments

Whisper of Rending Primary-ammo weapons do increased damage to Stasis crystals and frozen targets — a straight Verglas buff
Whisper of Shards shattering a crystal boosts grenade recharge, stacking per crystal — the reseed accelerant
Whisper of Fissures bigger, harder shatter bursts
Whisper of Conduction nearby Stasis shards track to you → guarantees Grim Harvest's Frost Armor refresh; +10 Super, +10 Health). Net stat delta +10 Super / +10 Health. Alternates: Whisper of Rime (Frost Armor duration + max stacks → 8 stacks / 13s
Whisper of Chains Frost-Armor kills can drop a shard; +10 Class

Why it works (the mechanics)

The crystal-shatter loop is closed by the two exotics alone. A Verglas arrow plants a Large Stasis crystal (Hail Storm); shatter it — Verglas itself does +50% to crystals, or pop it with Withering Blade, Shatterdive or Squall — and the shatter drops Stasis shards. Grim Harvest turns shard pickup into Frost Armor. Frost Armor makes Verglas hit harder (Fr0st-EE5) and lets Grim Harvest shatter on Stasis/Kinetic kills, so the next body-shot detonates the next crystal. Self-feeding.
Fr0st-EE5 is the regen pump, not just a stat stick. Every dodge triggers the 10s sprint window; sprinting doubles grenade and melee regen and pours +100% [200%] base class-ability regen in. That is what brings Duskfield (reseed) and Withering Blade (shatter) back before the field goes quiet — the reason the loop never stalls. The multiplicative regen is applied after additive modifiers, so the legs carry uptime regardless of stat ceiling.
Two independent crystal seeders. Verglas arrows and Touch-of-Winter Duskfield both plant crystals, and Squall freezes whole packs for Verglas to crystallise. You are never short of crystals to shatter, so Frost Armor stacks stay topped and the Stasis-damage buff stays live.
Frost Armor is generated three ways. Sprinting (Fr0st-EE5), shard pickup (Grim Harvest), and the artifact (Wind Chill / Frost Renewal). Layered generation makes Frost Armor near-permanent — a permanent Stasis-damage buff on Verglas plus permanent damage resistance.
Whisper of Shards short-circuits the reseed. Each crystal you shatter spikes grenade recharge (+500% [150%] base grenade regen for up to 11s, stacking per crystal). Stacked with Fr0st-EE5's doubled grenade regen, Duskfield is back almost as fast as you can throw it — the cheapest way to keep new crystals on the floor.
Served Cold re-arms the trigger. The artifact's Served Cold turns shard pickup into class-ability energy, so the same shards that grant Frost Armor also refund Gambler's Dodge — closing the loop that fires Fr0st-EE5's sprint window again.

Stats & mods

Grenade 200 → Class → Weapons. Grenade 200 is the fastest Duskfield reseed (the loop's fuel); Class keeps Gambler's Dodge — Fr0st-EE5's trigger — on a short leash; Weapons' first 100 carries the PvE damage and handling bump for Verglas. Archetype lean: chase Demolitionist (Grenade/Class) and Grenadier rolls, and put the Tier-5 Fr0st-EE5 in whichever archetype best tops your weakest priority. Shift ~20 from Super/Health into Melee if you lean on Withering Blade to shatter.

Mods:

Boots: Innervation (Orb pickup → grenade energy) + Recuperation for health on the same pickups.
Arms: Impact Induction (melee damage returns grenade energy) — Withering Blade feeds the Duskfield reseed.
Chest: Concussive Dampener + an elemental resist to survive sitting inside the freeze field.
Class item: Bomber (dodge → grenade energy) + Reaper (dodge → Orb) to back the dodge-reseed loop.
Surge: Stasis Weapon Surge — matches Verglas, the Chill Clip special and the Stasis heavy.
Anti-Champion: none intrinsic on this artifact set; Stasis CC (slow/freeze) covers Overload and Unstoppable functionally — see Champion coverage.

Artifact — Slayer Baron Apothecary Satchel

Picks (2/3/2): Wind Chill + Crystalline Converter — Hail The Storm + Frost Renewal + Debilitating Wave — Served Cold + Brain Freeze

Wind Chill — rapid Stasis-weapon hits grant Frost Armor, and hits on slowed or frozen targets also create a Stasis Shard. Verglas does both at once, so it mints Frost Armor and shards just by firing into the field.
Crystalline Converter — after a class ability, a Stasis-weapon final blow drops a shard; banked shards make your next powered Stasis melee spawn crystals, turning Withering Blade into a crystal-planter.
Hail The Storm — the keystone: shattering frozen targets and Stasis crystals deals increased damage and throws off slowing shards, amplifying the core action and feeding Grim Harvest.
Frost Renewal + Debilitating Wave — Frost Renewal is the panic button (crit damage with Frost Armor freezes nearby foes and grants more Frost Armor); Debilitating Wave makes finishers emit a Stasis wave that slows, since the Super is Stasis.
Served Cold + Brain Freeze — Served Cold turns shard pickup into class-ability energy, directly refuelling Fr0st-EE5's dodge trigger; Brain Freeze surrounds frozen targets with chilling fog that slows neighbours, widening the freeze so more enemies crystallise. Audited clean (2/3/2).

Where it shines

Add-dense PvE — endless reseed-and-shatter clears packs while Frost Armor keeps you tanky; Squall handles room-wide freezes.
Grandmaster sustain — layered Frost Armor generation plus Grim Harvest's damage-to-class-energy return gives constant DR and ability uptime without standing still.
Boss damage is the weak spot — Verglas is an add-clear engine, so lean on the flex Stasis heavy for major/boss phases (it still rides the Frost-Armor Stasis-damage buff).
Champion coverage: this artifact set carries no slotted anti-champion mod. Coverage is Stasis CC — Withering Blade, Duskfield and Verglas freeze stun Unstoppable, the Chill Clip special's slow stuns Overload. For guaranteed stuns or Barrier, swap Brain Freeze → Kinetic Impacts (the set's Tier-3 Unstoppable) and slot a Kinetic GL, or bring a flex weapon with an intrinsic breaker.

Verify notes

Verglas Curve facts — Combat Bow, Stasis, Primary ammo, no intrinsic champion breaker (`data/weapon_facts.json`). It sits in the Kinetic slot despite dealing Stasis damage (manifest bucket Kinetic Weapons 1498876634), so it costs you no elemental slot.
Fr0st-EE5 numbers (`docs/encyclopedia/clarity_build_numbers.md`): Rapid Cooldown = +6.25% sprint speed for 10s (not refreshable) on class-ability use; sprinting = +100% [200%] base class-ability regen and doubled PvE grenade/melee regen, multiplicative after additive modifiers. Intrinsic quoted verbatim from `exotics.md`; anchor cross-referenced in `exotic_intrinsics.md`.
Verglas Hail Storm (`perks.md` + `clarity_build_numbers.md`): Large Stasis Crystals on impact, Freeze on direct hits, +50% damage to Frozen enemies and Stasis crystals (stacks with Whisper of Rending). Catalyst Shiver Quiver = freeze/slow → −35% Draw Time (567ms→368ms) (`clarity_build_numbers.md`). Hail Barrage = kill → 1 stack (max 5), hip-fire dumps the volley.
Aspects/fragments sourced from `aspects.md` / `fragments.md`: Grim Harvest's shatter-on-Stasis/Kinetic-kill and class-energy-on-damage quoted verbatim; Whisper of Shards = +500% [150%] base grenade regen for up to 11s (`clarity_build_numbers.md`); Whisper of Rime = max 8 Frost Armor stacks / 13s. Artifact mods confirmed against `docs/encyclopedia/artifacts_structured.md`.
Naming caution: Verglas's intrinsic "Hail Storm" plants the crystals; the Slayer Baron Tier-2 mod "Hail The Storm" boosts shatter damage — both are used here and are easy to conflate.
Unsourced (flagged): Fr0st-EE5's exact Frost Armor Stasis-weapon damage bonus % and Frost Armor's per-stack damage resistance / base max stacks are not in the manifest and not modelled by Clarity (Clarity doesn't quantify the Frost Armor buff-verb) — treat both as meaningful but unquantified until checked in-game.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (5/10)	Stasis Siphon 1e fill	Rapid Stasis weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
	Ashes to Assets 3e fill	Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills.
	Heavy Ammo Finder 1e fill	Increases the effect of all contributions towards the Heavy ammo meter.
Arms (6/10)	Impact Induction 2e	Causing damage with a powered melee attack reduces your grenade cooldown.
	Grenade Kickstart 3e fill	When your grenade energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain grenade energy for each Armor Charge used.
	Fastball 1e fill	Increases grenade throw distance.
Chest (5/10)	Concussive Dampener 3e	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
	Stasis Resistance 1e fill	Reduces incoming Stasis damage from combatants.
	Sniper Damage Resistance 1e fill	Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range.
Legs (3/10)	Stasis Weapon Surge 1e	Your Stasis weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Recuperation 1e	Replenishes health each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
	Innervation 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
Class Item (4/10)	Reaper 1e	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.
	Bomber 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
	Powerful Attraction 2e fill	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.

All 15 sockets used, 10 energy per masterworked piece; costs from the manifest. Core mods are the build's engine; fill mods are strong defaults — swap freely (chest resists should match the activity's damage types). Flex/loadout-dependent: the Chill Clip special; the Stasis heavy. - **Anti-Champion:** none intrinsic on this artifact set; Stasis CC (slow/freeze) covers Overload; Unstoppable functionally — see Champion coverage.