Vaal Cold SnapVaal, Spell, AoE, Duration, Cold Level: (1-20) Souls Per Use: 35 Can Store 1 Use(s) Soul Gain Prevention: 8 sec Cast Time: 0.85 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: 200%Requires Level 16Creates a sudden burst of cold around you, damaging enemies. This also creates a chilling area around you which expands and deals cold damage over time to surrounding enemies in addition to chilling them. Enemies that die while in the area grant Frenzy Charges, and you will passively gain Frenzy Charges while there are enemies in the area.Deals (35-1002) to (53-1502) Cold Damage Base duration is 4 seconds Always Freezes enemies Gain a Frenzy Charge when an Enemy Dies while in this Skill's Area Every second, gain a Frenzy Charge if an Enemy is in this Skill's Area Deals (29.4-1495.5) Base Cold Damage per second Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Modifiers to Skill Effect Duration also apply to this Skill's Soul Gain Prevention (0-19)% increased Effect of ChillPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Vaal Cold Snap is a vaalspell that causes an initial burst of ice to explode around the player, freezing enemies. After the burst an area of damage over time releases from the player chilling any enemy that comes into contact with it as well as awarding Frenzy Charges every second per enemy in the area.
The Damage over Time interacts with spell damage like most DoT skills. It also interacts with multiple sources of cold DoT. Stacking Vortex, Cold Snap, Arctic Breath, or any other source of Cold Damage over Time will work together.
Multiple activation of the skill by other players will stack the burst but not the DoT portion of this skill.
Gem level progression
Level
Cold Damage
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
16
18
26
46 to 69
0
0
2
20
22
31
63 to 95
49725
49725
3
24
25
37
86 to 128
95714
145439
4
28
29
42
114 to 172
169595
315034
5
31
32
46
141 to 212
199345
514379
6
34
35
50
173 to 260
285815
800194
7
37
37
54
211 to 317
401344
1201538
8
40
40
58
257 to 386
554379
1755917
9
43
43
62
312 to 468
755049
2510966
10
46
46
66
377 to 565
1016533
3527499
11
49
48
70
454 to 681
1898602
5426101
12
52
51
74
545 to 818
1964019
7390120
13
55
54
78
653 to 980
2573731
9963851
14
58
57
82
782 to 1172
4676439
14640290
15
60
59
84
880 to 1320
3017327
17657617
16
62
60
87
989 to 1484
7823001
25480618
17
64
62
90
1112 to 1668
15264208
40744826
18
66
64
92
1248 to 1873
26272845
67017671
19
68
66
95
1401 to 2101
62872274
129889945
20
70
68
98
1571 to 2356
212023122
341913067
21
72
70
100
1760 to 2641
N/A
N/A
22
74
N/A
N/A
1972 to 2958
N/A
N/A
23
76
N/A
N/A
2207 to 3311
N/A
N/A
24
78
N/A
N/A
2469 to 3704
N/A
N/A
25
80
N/A
N/A
2761 to 4142
N/A
N/A
26
82
N/A
N/A
3086 to 4629
N/A
N/A
27
84
N/A
N/A
3447 to 5171
N/A
N/A
28
86
N/A
N/A
3849 to 5774
N/A
N/A
29
88
N/A
N/A
4296 to 6444
N/A
N/A
30
90
N/A
N/A
4793 to 7189
N/A
N/A
31
91
N/A
N/A
5062 to 7593
N/A
N/A
32
92
N/A
N/A
5345 to 8018
N/A
N/A
33
93
N/A
N/A
5644 to 8466
N/A
N/A
34
94
N/A
N/A
5958 to 8938
N/A
N/A
35
95
N/A
N/A
6290 to 9435
N/A
N/A
36
96
N/A
N/A
6640 to 9960
N/A
N/A
37
97
N/A
N/A
7008 to 10512
N/A
N/A
38
98
N/A
N/A
7396 to 11095
N/A
N/A
39
99
N/A
N/A
7805 to 11708
N/A
N/A
40
100
N/A
N/A
8236 to 12355
N/A
N/A
Item acquisition
Vaal Cold Snap has restrictions on where or how it can drop.
Vaal Cold Snap can drop from the Vaal Vessels found in Vaal side areas.
Recipes
Vaal Cold Snap can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
4
A Chilling WindA Chilling Wind4Level 21 Vaal Cold Snap Quality:+20% CorruptedAll things slow under winter's onslaught - even life itself.
CorruptedLevel 21 Vaal Cold Snap with 20% quality
M
9
Volatile PowerVolatile Power9Vaal Gem Quality:+20% CorruptedUnlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it.
Random corruptedVaal gem with 20% quality
A
1
The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize.
Vaal Skill soul counts were initially balanced for Merciless difficulty, where there are more monsters. We want them to be easier to use in Normal and Cruel difficulty. We have halved the number of souls required for each skill. In Cruel difficulty, skills require 50% more souls to uses. In Merciless difficulty, they require 100% more (which is the same as before the patch).