Ice Splitter Uses Over Octopus

An issue gunslingers have while training is mobs, since when they come too close, you can't attack. While octopus would be more useful for bosses or single targets, ice spitter can freeze 6 mobs a once and hold them there, meaning slingers can now train on flat maps with dense spawn, which was difficult before.

This is dumb reasoning because you cannot mob for pomegranate with splitter. Only with maxed burner does mobbing with splitter become viable.

EDIT: In other words, using the example you gave, 'practice field beginner', try training there with good spawn. It's very difficult even with 1hkos and dash to get them away. and they're SLOW mobs. Fast mobs are incredibly hard, especcially when you can't 1HKO. I'd give anything for the ability to freeze a mob before they even started heading towards me.

Where the hell are you training before himes that gives you better exp than newties and fit the "mob or die" fight style? Typhons suck ass for slingers, and windraiders are too low exp gain by the time you have max splitter/burner.

Ice splitter can freeze, which helps because gunslingers have low hp.

Low HP is not a con in this context because you're not going to be ohko'd by monsters you train on obviously. If we're going as far as newties, you'll barely take damage when sniping. Low HP only applies to a boss (which you will not be doing most likely unless leeching anego or something), where freeze is useless anyway.

Octopus will kill faster, but you will burn pots without freezing.

Octopus is for the newtie build. You don't burn HP pots if you're sniping newties. >__>

If more damage is really THAT tempting you should have become a dexless sin, Slingers specialize in strategy

Not entirely.