Freezing Pulse

"Sometimes a spellcaster just needs crowd control. When beset by a hostile throng, masters of ice magic frequently employ the deadly Freezing Pulse. The spell pierces easily through the thickest hide and the toughest armor, spinning and freezing in an icy whirl until it impacts a distant target. The Pulse is at peak strength when it's cast, so it has the greatest effect on enemies that are right up next to the caster. Of course, these are also the enemies presenting the most threat, and they are left frozen solid or slain outright."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Freezing Pulse is a cold spell, launching a short-ranged projectile which passes through enemies with a chance of freezing them.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Area of Effect: AoE increases have no effect on Freezing Pulse.

Automatic Piercing: Freezing Pulse has a 100% chance to pierce enemies, but cannot travel through terrain obstacles. has no effect.

Chance to Freeze: The Freezing Pulse projectile has an inherent 25% chance to freeze at its starting point, but which decreases linearly by the percentage of the projectile's lifetime elapsed. Therefore after one quarter of the projectile's lifetime, Freezing Pulse's inherent chance to freeze is 0%.

Projectile Speed: The support and x% increased Projectile Speed mods will affect Freezing Pulse, causing it to travel farther before it dissipates, effectively increasing its range. Freezing Pulse modified by projectile speed will cause more damage and have a better chance to freeze at every point along its trajectory than a slower Freezing Pulse projectile would, because it has had less time to dissipate.

Fork: The support gem will cost extra mana, however it has no effect due to Freezing Pulse's 100% Pierce chance. Please see the projectiles page for more information on this projectile behaviour.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	5	0	0
2	2	0	5	70	70
3	4	16	6	308	378
4	7	22	7	1554	1932
5	11	31	7	6667	8599
6	16	41	9	26047	34646
7	20	50	10	49725	84371
8	24	58	11	95714	180085
9	28	67	11	169595	349680
10	32	75	12	283759	633439
11	36	83	13	453996	1087435
12	40	92	14	703128	1790563
13	44	100	15	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	16	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	17	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	18	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	19	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	20	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	21	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	21	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	22	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	22	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	23	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	23	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	24	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	24	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	25	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	25	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	26	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	26	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	26	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	27	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	27	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	27	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	27	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	27	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	28	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	28	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	28	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	28	N/A	N/A

Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by around 20% at all levels. Now gains 1% projectile speed per gem level over 1.
2.0.0	Damage increased by 25% to compensate for the shotgunning mechanic change.
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised. We have increased its projectile speed. Damage is increased by 50% at level 1 (to 40% at level 20).
1.1.0	Increased the damage of the following skills at low levels: , , and to a lesser extent, and .
0.11.0	Damage has been reduced.
0.9.9	Increased cast speed, reduced mana cost, slightly reduced damage.
0.9.7b	Increased the damage of level 1.
0.9.7	The damage has been increased.
0.9.5	Increased damage progression.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Freezing Pulse (6%).
0.9.3c	Reduced damage by 10%.
0.9.3	Freezing Pulse now scales all damage from support gems in the same way as the main skill damage (Based on distance).
0.9.1	Updated effect for Freezing Pulse. Reduced damage and collision size.
0.8.7	Freezing Pulse added to the game.