POB: [https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a89a](https://poe.ninja/poe2/pob/1a89a)

I'm just gonna go over the main discovery I made for this build: abyssal lich's umbral souls DO NOT snapshot. This means that for any skill that has delayed activation (frozen locus, grenade skills, frost bomb, ember fusillade, stormcaller arrow, etc.), you can use that skill on a weapon set with high damage investment and then swap to a weapon set with a lot of investment for umbral souls stats and those stats will be added to the skill when they detonate.

Here is a simple example with frost bomb and aoe stacking with skeletal arsonists: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2bBwODm\_Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh2bBwODm_Y)

For the build I'm doing I'm AOE stacking with on weapon set 2 while using using frozen locus on my high damage setup on weapon set 1. With the amount of spirit I have, I also invest into berserk and eternal rage on weapon set 1. I smack the frozen locus with my weapon set 2 basic attack that has the support gem biting frost to instantly destroy the ice crystal while gaining all the aoe of the 45 skeletal arsonists I have. Weapon set 2 doesn't care about damage at all, so I get the Matsya Crescent Staff for maximum skeletal arsonists allocation.

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Other kinda important thing: herald of ice is snapshotted to skills. This has no application most of the time except for with delayed activation skills. Herald of ice is only on weapon set 1 yet will activate on enemies shattered by frozen locus regardless of which weapon set you are on. Which means it also gains the AOE from weapon set 2 when it detonates since umbral souls is not snapshotted.

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Other than these things, bossing is just gathering storm + frost wall with crit scaling and general damage stacking. Also I am low life lich. If people want more details, feel free to ask.

nuclear frozen locus - potentially new abyssal lich tech