Ice Crash

Mighty warriors of the distant tundras of the Freezing North travelled across the seas and oceans and some of them landed also on Wraeclast. Their settlers have quickly dissoluted in the Wraeclastian population, their bloodline dispersed and their language was forgotten, but some bits of their culture remained. The useful bits. One of these bits is a combat technique known as Ice Crash. The warrior activates the bits of northern bloodline that remains in his veins and hits the ground with all his strength, causing ice to erupt from the ground and grievously injure those who stand close enough.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Ice Crash attacks an area, converting some of your physical damage to cold damage. The damage is weaker further away from you. Ice Crash requires a sword, mace, axe or a staff, but can also be used while unarmed.

Skill functions and interactions

• Damage conversion: Like all converted damage, the cold damage component of Ice Crash's damage will be modified by Cold Damage, Elemental Damage and Physical Damage.

• Dual Wielding: When Dual Wielding, only the main hand weapon is used. Left hand can hold a weapon with other benefits than damage, such as Ungil's GaucheUngil's Gauche
  Boot KnifeRune Dagger
  Physical Damage: (14.4-16) to (61.2-68)
  Elemental Damage: 3-30
  Critical Strike Chance: 6.30%
  Attacks per Second: 1.59
  Weapon Range: 1.0 metresRequires Level 20, 31 Dex, 45 Int30% increased Global Critical Strike Chance+12% Chance to Block Attack Damage while Dual Wielding
  +(10-20) to Dexterity
  (80-100)% increased Physical Damage
  Adds 3 to 30 Lightning Damage
  10% increased Attack Speed
  50% increased Global Critical Strike ChanceUnwieldy and garish became graceful
  and deadly in Ungil's nimble hands..

• Multistrike: Ice Crash cannot be supported by Multistrike.

Any enemy hit by a stage cannot be hit again by subsequent stage(s). The tooltip damage reported is for the first (central) stage.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	28	42	29	230%	230%	0	0
2	31	46	32	236%	236.3%	199345	199345
3	34	50	35	243%	242.6%	285815	485160
4	37	54	37	249%	248.9%	401344	886504
5	40	58	40	255%	255.3%	554379	1440883
6	42	60	42	262%	261.6%	477437	1918320
7	44	63	44	268%	267.9%	583786	2502106
8	46	66	46	274%	274.2%	710359	3212465
9	48	68	48	281%	280.5%	1355511	4567976
10	50	71	49	287%	286.8%	1138877	5706853
11	52	74	51	293%	293.2%	1368233	7075086
12	54	76	53	299%	299.5%	1638338	8713424
13	56	79	55	306%	305.8%	1956648	10670072
14	58	82	57	312%	312.1%	3655184	14325256
15	60	84	59	318%	318.4%	3017327	17342583
16	62	87	60	325%	324.7%	7759995	25102578
17	64	90	62	331%	331.1%	15138193	40240771
18	66	92	64	337%	337.4%	26083825	66324596
19	68	95	66	344%	343.7%	62620247	128944843
20	70	98	68	350%	350%	211708088	340652931
21	72	100	70	356%	356.3%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	363%	362.6%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	369%	368.9%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	375%	375.3%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	382%	381.6%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	388%	387.9%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	394%	394.2%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	401%	400.5%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	407%	406.8%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	413%	413.2%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	416%	416.3%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	419%	419.5%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	423%	422.6%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	426%	425.8%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	429%	428.9%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	432%	432.1%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	435%	435.3%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	438%	438.4%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	442%	441.6%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	445%	444.7%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Ice Crash.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Ice Crash Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Ice Crash Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Crash Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Ice Crash Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Crash Physical Damage Percent To Add As Cold Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% of Ice Crash Physical Damage gained as Extra Cold Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Crash Physical Damage Percent To Add As Cold Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% of Ice Crash Physical Damage gained as Extra Cold Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Crash Area Of Effect 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	16% increased Ice Crash Area of Effect	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Crash Area Of Effect 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	24% increased Ice Crash Area of Effect	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
3.1.0	Radius has been increased from 8 to 9 for the first stage, from 16 to 18 for the second stage, and from 24 to 26 for the third stage.
2.6.0	Damage increased by 13% at level 1, damage progression as the gem levels slightly improved. The second stage now deals 10% less damage (down from 15%). The third stage now deals 20% less damage (down from 30%).
2.4.0	Attack speed penalty is now 20% less (down from 25% less). Its secondary stage damage penalty is now 15% less (down from 20% less). Its third stage damage penalty is now 30% less (down from 40% less).
2.1.0	Attack skills that have their damage based on the wielded weapon have their mana costs fixed in place from level 1 onwards.
2.0.0	Introduced to the game