i been playing a phys/ice focus build, you spam ice gems and you can get tons of crits and with pinpoint attack you get even more damage and add glacial strike which more damage the more freeze gems are in the field, with that move you can solo phase almost any enemy or instant destroy any armor (with 50 str and rage i manage to do 653 with glacial strike in cyruz fight)
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Well yes, but you can do that without taking Water as your second primary. Pure Ice/Physical is good. There is very little reason to add Water to that. Especially if you're spamming STR because then not even the heal is useful. Even if you do want to use Aqua Splash, that is easily purchasable by the time you have the later Ice Physical skills, and Fire spells get you through the early game a lot better than starting Water.