The Frost Vortex is a power found on players’ weapons in Once Human. When the effect activates, a few meter wide radius appears around the target. Then, it slows opponents and deals frost elemental damage per second. This capability allows you to deal massive amounts of sustained burst damage to opponents in cover, bosses that spawn mobs, or even free damage against stationary targets. One of the weapons that will give you the power of Frost Vortex is an assault rifle named Abyss Glance. In this guide, we are going to take a look at the best Abyss Glance Frost Vortex build in Once Human. Having this build will give you great power in the game.
This is going to be a long guide, so feel free to check out the table of contents below to see the sections.
Best Abyss Glance Frost Vortex Build
The build we will be discussing combines top-tier single-point damage with incredible areas of effect. All while debuffing your enemies and healing yourself in the process. We will go over everything you need to put this build together. To do that, we will talk about the weapons and armor with mods, Deviant, and damage rotation required to make this build shine.
What is Frost Vortex
First and foremost, it is critical to grasp exactly what Frost Vortex is. Frost Vortex is a damage type that causes both continual debuff and continuous damage in a specific area of impact. You will trap foes in a 4-meter radius and deal 30% intensity status damage per second for 4 seconds. For a total of four instances of damage from each Frost Vortex.
Normally, you can have up to two Frost Vortexs at the same time, continuously inflicting damage. However, with this build, you can have three. Because this build is based on status and frost damage, you will want to make sure to include it whenever possible, as you will notice throughout the setup.
Abyss Glance Setup
You can unlock this weapon to craft by either randomly acquiring it from the wish machine or purchasing the blueprint for it directly for 8,000 Starchrom. In our opinion, this would be an excellent investment.
This weapon has four weapon features, all centered on creating Frost Vortex while shooting opponents. Hitting adversaries 20 times results in Frost Vortex, which can be either body shots or precise hits. In either case, every time you fire an adversary, you accumulate enough hits to activate Frost Vortex.
Second, striking weak locations counts as two hits, thus if you hit ten weak spots, a Frost Vortex will be triggered. This means that you should be targeting those weak spots to maximize its effectiveness.
Furthermore, because the Frost Vortex is an AOE effect, the closer a target is to the center, the greater the frost damage, which can reach up to 200%. Finally, frost damage is raised by 30 percent. So, you can already see that the weapon relies significantly on status damage. Because of that, you will want to focus on this aspect, which you will see a lot more of in the build.
Keeping that in mind, you need to choose this set of calibration attributes: +15% attack, +30% range, and -7.12% rate of fire, with an amazing 177% boost in elemental damage. You can also add the mod Vortex Multiplier, which increases the number of Frost Vortex spawns from two to three.
Secondary Weapon: Wildfire Pistol
On to the secondary weapon, which is mostly for offensive assistance, we chose a bullseye pistol, Wildfire. Using the continuous debuff, Bullseye will highlight a marked target and add the 8% vulnerability debuff for 8 seconds, allowing you to deal 8% greater damage to everything you mark.
When you hit a target, you have a 60% chance of activating Bullseye, and an 80% chance of spreading it to one enemy within a 15m radius. If there are no other opponents in the nearby areas, say you are battling a boss, you will receive a 25% weapon damage boost.
In addition, hitting an already marked target’s weak spot can increase your attack by up to 9%. So, whether you want to debuff a boss while also buffing yourself, or you want to mark a whole room before clearing it out. This is the ideal support weapon for almost any build. In terms of the mod that goes with this, there are actually three that can be swapped out based on your preferences:
- Vulnerability Amplifier: Adds an additional 8% vulnerability to your Bullseye procs. It allows you to do considerably more damage against tagged targets.
- Hunter’s Perk: Reduces outgoing damage from anything you mark by 20%. You can use it when fighting elites or monsters with minimal cover.
- Recover Mark: When you defeat marked opponents, it heals you and restores your stamina. Making it ideal for running and gunning through silos without burning your activators.
This weapon costs 2,000 Starchrom. Because of that, you might think of getting another weapon like a Recurve Crossbow. Since you can obtain its blueprint from a stronghold, it might look like a better option. However, that one is a single-fire weapon, so you would have to reload it regularly. Wildfire Pistol will give you more adaptability. So, we recommend you get it if you can spare a couple of Starchroms.
In terms of calibration attributes, you can choose portable-style mobility. This will increase your movement speed by 50%, your movement speed while holding a gun by +10%, and your weapon switching speed by 50%.
Melee Weapon: Frozen Northern Pike
Our third and last weapon, the Frozen Northern Pike, is a melee option. It is ideal because the build focuses primarily on status and frost damage. This weapon will quickly freeze everything hit by a heavy attack or a sprint impact attack, generating a Frost Vortex every four seconds.
But that’s not all; striking a frozen target will restore you for 5% of your health while draining two stamina. In terms of the mod, you may increase this weapon’s healing ability even more by equipping Frosty Blessings, which heals you for 10% when your Frost Vortex evaporates, transforming this melee weapon into a never-ending healing machine.
Armor & Gear Setup
In this section, we are going to talk about the Main Armor, Gear Set, and Armor Mods.
- Main Armor: Frost Tactical Vest.
- Gear Set: Shelter Set + Renegade Set Shoes&Lonewolf Shoes.
- Armor Mods: Deviation Expert, Lingering Frost, Flame Resonance, Precision Charge, Status Enhancement, Covered Advance.
Now, let’s take a deeper look at each one of these items.
Main Armor
For the main armor., you are going to want to use the Epic chest item, the Frost Tactical Vest. Every time you create a Frost Vortex, its unique effect generates ice spikes that cause frost damage equivalent to 100% of your sight intensity. This adds a form of damage to your Frost Vortex while also absorbing some frost damage from the vortexes themselves.
Gear Set
This build’s gear set should consist of four pieces from the Shelter set. The reason for this is that this is the highest tier set, which focuses on increasing your status damage and set effects. The first effect is fine but not particularly impressive, providing +15% DR against status effects, but the second, third, and fourth effects are where it really shines. Wearing two pieces grants you an additional 8% elemental damage.
By wearing three pieces, each weapon hit will grant one stack of what they call Deviant Energy. Despite its name, it has no effect on your Deviant Energy level. Instead, it gives you a 1% boost to your elemental damage. Stacking up to 20 times until you reload the weapon. By putting on the fourth and final item, you will be able to gain an additional 10 stacks of Deviant Energy for a total of 30. Then, striking a weak point will grant you three total Deviant Energy every hit, making it simple to restore those stacks to max after reloading.
For the last slot you have, you can either use the Renegade Set Shoes to boost your reload speed by 15%. Or the Lonewolf Shoes to give you 10% more ammo in your magazine.
Having a good build is definitely an essential point of being a strong player in any game. Make sure to check out our guide on Best Shrapnel Build SORC Guide to learn about one of the other possible builds you can use in Once Human.
Armor Mods
Moving on to the mods you will want to add to your armor. Aside from the main effect of your mods, you will want to emphasize perks like status damage, frost damage, elemental damage, and either elite or great ones’ damage. This is to ensure that your Frost Vortex damage is as strong as possible against the tougher opponents you will encounter.
| Armor Piece | Mod | Effects |
| Helmet | Deviation Expert | You lose 25% of your range but gain 10% of your rate of fire and a flat 20% increase in status damage. Moreover, there doesn’t appear to be any damage falloff on your Frost Vortex. Thus sacrificing a little range is a reasonable trade-off. |
| Mask | Lingering Frost | Increases your Frost Vortex‘s final tick damage by 15%. Status damage gains a significant boost. |
| Jacket | Flame Resonance | Increases the frost damage from the Frost Vortex by 15%. However, you can only have one Frost Vortex proc at a time, even though there is no cooldown. It works well with the mod’s other effect, which increases the damage of great ones by 9%. |
| Gloves | Precision Charge | Hitting weak points as much as possible to increase damage. Weak spot strikes increase damage by 1.5% and stack up to ten times. For open-world content where aiming is less important, use Steady Sniper to improve accuracy when using sights. |
| Pants | Status Enhancement | Each status effect caused on a target increases status damage by 8%, for a total of 24%. It comes with increased status and frost damage. |
| Boots | Covered Advance | Increases the rate of fire by 10% while in cover, as well as the amount of status damage. |
Best Deviant Choice
For the Deviant pick, we are going to go with Polar Jelly. This deviant makes your frost damage deal more damage. It also adds additional ice spike and increases your frost damage by 5%. Moreover, you get 5% more frost damage with an additional spike if there are no other enemies within 10m. You might think that this buff does not do much, but it certainly does.
Cradle Mods
Finally, let’s talk about cradle mods. There are 8 slots you can use in your cradle. Check out the list below to see our recommended mods for those slots.
- Status Enhancement: After hitting a weak spot, status damage increased by 25% for 3 seconds.
- Sustained Suppression: Killing an enemy with continuous damage (such as a burn or frost vortex) increases continuous damage by +20% for 10 seconds, stackable up to 3 times.
- Automatic Weapon Enhancement: While holding SMG, Rifles, or LMGs, you gain a +20% damage boost. Reload 10% of magazine capacity from reserve upon defeating an enemy.
- Tactical Combo: Weapon damage +25% for 4 seconds after switching weapons or reloading.
- Agility: After rolling, it gives you a damage reduction of +15% for 4 seconds.
- Bounty Hunter: After defeating a unit you marked, you gain +25% weapon damage and +35% weak spot damage, lasting for 15 seconds.
- Master Tactician: After using a tactical item, you gain damage against Great Ones (bosses) +25% for 15 seconds.
- Recommended Tactical Items: Molotov cocktails, the fusion lighter, or snowball.
- Deviation Master: Fighting alongside your Deviant grants you a 50% damage boost against Deviants.
You do not need to include all of these mods in your cradle, but having all of them will definitely give you a good boost. So, we recommend you to add each one of them for better results.
This concludes our Once Human: Best Abyss Glance Frost Vortex Build Guide. This build has so many steps that you need to follow, but it also gives you an amazing amount of power. By following everything we mentioned in this build, you will be the master of frost vortex in no time.
