BiS Gear
The Best in Slot (BiS) Legendary, Weapon and Relics for Rime are shown below.
Legendaries
In my opinion, Drakesblood Tapestry is the best one of the lot purely because the rotation it has with Void-Touched Conduit involved is much more straight forward. Skandi's Sabatons Of Endless Winter is also as powerful as the cape, however there is a lot more to mess up when it comes to min-maxing Cascading Blitz.Both of these Legendaries affect gameplay and rotation so make sure to check out Playstyle & Rotation.
Weapons
Rime actually has a couple of options when it comes to weapons. There is a best weapon that stands above the rest, but the others are still definitely usable and later on can provide some very powerful weapon trees.
Void-Touched Conduit - This weapon applies a debuff to your target for 15 seconds which stores 10% of all the damage you deal and once you have done a certain amount of damage or the effect expires, it explodes to deal additional damage to the target. It’s a very good priority damage option that always explodes prior to expiration. It’s our best in slot.
Asha's Chronoshift Spire - The alternative is this. This weapon is a channeled AoE that pulses damage around you. While you channel, you get 400% increased CDR and take 50% reduced damage. It’s very powerful and enables you to do so much more to the point it’s even worth using this inside a Winter's Embrace window itself.
Gear Sets
Set Bonuses are very strong, especially so in the early game before you reach Eternal. However - keep in mind there is certain Set/Gem Socket loadouts depending on your number of sets worn. Below is a table to explain what this means.
| Number of Sets Worn | Total Sockets Available |
| 0 set | 11 |
| 1 Set | 9 |
| 2 Set | 7 |
| 3 Set | 5 |
| 4 Set | 3 |
I strongly suggest you aim for 1 set bonus with 9 sockets until you acquire enough Essence Bonus sockets to go to 0 set configurations. The three sets I suggest are:
Draconic Might: This is the 18% Intellect on crit proc set. This averages around 25% uptime and is good value for the slots.
Dark Prophecy: This is the 25% haste proc on spell cast set. This averages around 25% uptime and is good value for the slots.
Drakheim's Absolution: This is the 20% Intellect on Spirit Ultimate use set. This set is good for maximizing the DPS potential of your Wrath Of Winter windows.
Relics
Relics are entirely utility focused in Fellowship and they mostly aren’t unique to specific heroes so it allows for a lot of change. While you can use any relic, there are a couple that are considerably notable and arguably the best of the bunch in a general sense.
S-Tier Relics
Sinbinding Stone - Grants 15% damage reduction to yourself and nearby allies for 15 seconds on a 3 minute cooldown. This Relic is extremely powerful, particularly on some of the harder bosses in the game.
A-Tier Relics
Grimoire Of Resurrection - A simple combat rez. It has a small cast time with a 5 minute cooldown. Great if your party lacks the ability to rez.
Ancient Wardstone - Instantly dispel all harmful magic effects from yourself and allies on a 2 minute cooldown. This can be extremely good in some dungeons depending on how you’re pulling.
Saltwash Elixir - Instantly heals you for 40% of your max hp on a 2 minute cooldown.
Ancient Poultry Fetish - Turns your target into a chicken. Permanently. This cannot be used on Bosses but there are pulls in dungeons where utilizing this Relic makes life so much easier. It has shared uses by the party on a 3 minute cooldown, so its value lessens with multiple users in the same party, alongside the fact there are much better relics on offer.
B-Tier Relics
Orb Of Shadows - Party wide invisibility for 15 seconds on a 6 minute cooldown. There aren’t too many notable uses of this but it can be strong if you plan around skipping packs with this.
Bloodrite Drums - A 12 second, 50% movespeed increase for you and your allies. It’s not great.
Humming Portalstone - Opens an interactable portal. You can only have 1 of these active at any time and there is a short cooldown on how often you can take the portal. It has a 2 minute cooldown. With co-ordinated play it could be useful but for most it’s not a great option.