[2022] Requirements to apply elemental ailments?

Context

I'm attempting the idea a build that is primarily physical, but applies bleed, poison, rupture, blind, impale, ignite, shock, and freeze on hit. I don't expect all of those things every single hit (e.g. Impale is probably going to stay 20% might boost it to 40%). Regardless, I play around with builds for fun and definitely do not take the game super seriously. The making of my own build is why I find the game fun in the first place. The idea of a status effects / ailments build sounds entertaining to me at the moment, but I don't know much about the elemental ailments yet.

Question(s)

With Freeze (and Ignite/Shock), would something like Winter Spirit where I gain 10% physical damage as extra cold damage be enough for triggering freeze or do I also need nodes that have "10% chance to freeze on hit" as well?

Secondly, can I have all three of these ailments simultaneously or are there natural conflicts (e.g. can't be ignited and frozen)? I don't see anything on the wiki suggesting this, but I could understand if this was a thing so I thought I'd ask.

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By default:

Fire Damage from hits can Ignite
Cold Damage from hits can Freeze
Cold Damage from hits can Chill
Lightning Damage from hits can Shock
Hits always Chill
Critical Strikes always Ignite
Critical Strikes always Freeze
Critical Strikes always Shock

The "can" in those first four means that if the hit tries to apply that ailment, damage of that type is counted for determining how strong the ailment will be (a hit can't inflict an ailment at all if it deals no damage of a type that can inflict it).

The "always" in the second four means the same as having 100% chance to inflict the ailment - the hit will always check how much damage it does of types that can inflict that ailment, and attempt to inflict it (but will fail if it dealt no damage of approriate types, or not enough damage to the point the ailment would be insignificant and is skipped).

You need both things to match up in order to actaully inflict an ailment - The hit needs to try to inflict the ailment, and needs to have dealt some damage of a type that can inflict it. Various stats can add chances for hits to inflict the ailments (redundant on crits, but matters for regular hits), or make different damage types able to inflict them.

In general, how strong an ailment is depends on how much damage of the apporpriate type(s) you dealt compared to the enemy's life, and that needs to be enough to meet a minimum magnitude - ailments that are too weak will not happen. Freeze instead has a fixed base magnitude but scales duration, and that needs to be at least 300ms to be inflicted.

There are no restrictions on which ailments can be on the same enemy.

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