Wintertide Brand
Level: (1-20)
Cast Time: 0.70 secRequires Level 12Creates a magical brand which can attach to a nearby enemy, dealing cold damage over time and chilling them. It periodically activates while attached, gaining stages that raise the damage. When removed, a short-duration debuff dealing the same damage over time and chill is applied to each nearby enemy. The brand keeps its charges while detached.Can be Attached for a total Duration of 8589934592 seconds
Your Skills can have an additional Brand Attached to an Enemy
Can be Detached for a total Duration of 6 seconds
Deals (12.5-164.6) Base Cold Damage per second
Base Debuff Duration is 1 seconds
Activates every 0.25 seconds while Attached
Debuff deals 20% more Damage per Stage
Maximum 20 Stages
Can have an additional Brand Attached to an Enemy
Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed also apply to this Skill's Activation frequency
Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect
Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Drop level: 12Vendor Prices
Normal | 1x Orb of Transmutation |
1x Scroll FragmentMetadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemWintertideBrand
Wintertide Brand is a spell that creates a brand at the target position. While attached, the brands deals cold damage over time to the attached target and chills them. When the enemies it attached to die or the attached duration end, it creates an area of effect that applies the total amount of DoT that it has dealt to the enemy it attached to to the surrounding enemies.
Skill functions and interactions
- Cold DOT: The skill has two debuffs.
- While a Wintertide Brand is attached to an enemy, it has the "Wintertide" debuff, which deals cold damage over time and chills. Multiple instances of this debuff stack when there are multiple brands attached to the enemy. This debuff has no duration.[1]
- When a Wintertide Brand is removed, it removes its "Wintertide" debuff from the enemy it detached from, and applies "Wintertide's End" debuff to each enemy in range (may include the previously-branded enemy if that's still alive). It also deals cold damage over time (value copied from the removed "Wintertide" debuff) and chills. It lasts for a a base duration of 1 second. This debuff cannot stack, and only the strongest instance will apply at a time.
- The "Wintertide" and "Wintertide's End" debuffs can both deal damage to an enemy at the same time (e.g. if an enemy is having a brand attached while receiving "Wintertide's End" from a removed brand).
- Area: Wintertide Brand does not create any AoE ground dot, it just puts individual "Wintertide's End" debuffs on each enemy in the area when removed. Because of this, modifier to AoE damage will not affect the skill, and modifier to AoE will affect the area the brand can put its "Wintertide's End" debuff on
- Activation: While attached, the brand gains stages every time it activates, which increase its damage. The activation rate (and hence the stage-gaining rate) can be modified by modifier to brand activation frequency such as cast speed, or Swiftbrand Support or Brandsurge
- By default, with a 0.25s activation frequency, a brand need to be attached for 5s minimum to reach the final stage of 20.
- Stages: Stages are a property of the brand. Each brand has its own stages that only affect its debuffs. If multiple brands are attached to the same enemy, they don't share their stages in anyway.[2]
- A brand can only have stages while its attached - when it becomes detached and is on the ground, it loses any stages it previously had, and when it attaches again it will start from 0.[3]
- Hit: Wintertide Brand does not hit in anyway, so for example it cannot be supported by Hextouch Support, it cannot trigger Elemental Equilibrium, and its damage cannot be reflected.
- Chill: Wintertide Brand has built-in chill, and this chill is not prevented when the skill is supported by Elemental Focus Support
- Duration: Modifiers to skill effect duration and brand's duration will affect the following properties of the skill: total attached duration, total detached duration, and "Wintertide's End" debuff duration.
- In general, an increased attached duration will allow the brand to reach a higher stage (up to the max stage, in which case it allows the brand to stay in max stage longer). Since higher stage means higher DOT damage, scaling duration is an effective way to scale the skill's damage.
Gem level progression
Level | Mana Cost | Cold DPS | Exp. | Total Exp. | ||
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1 | 12 | 33 | 6 | 13.7 | 0 | 0 |
2 | 15 | 39 | 6 | 16.9 | 15249 | 15249 |
3 | 19 | 48 | 7 | 22 | 41517 | 56766 |
4 | 23 | 56 | 8 | 28.1 | 81983 | 138749 |
5 | 27 | 64 | 9 | 35.4 | 147968 | 286717 |
6 | 31 | 73 | 9 | 44 | 250557 | 537274 |
7 | 35 | 81 | 10 | 54.1 | 405086 | 942360 |
8 | 38 | 88 | 11 | 62.9 | 447718 | 1390078 |
9 | 41 | 94 | 11 | 72.8 | 615318 | 2005396 |
10 | 44 | 100 | 12 | 83.9 | 834639 | 2840035 |
11 | 47 | 106 | 12 | 96.5 | 1570760 | 4410795 |
12 | 50 | 113 | 13 | 110.7 | 1633987 | 6044782 |
13 | 53 | 119 | 13 | 126.6 | 2151030 | 8195812 |
14 | 56 | 125 | 14 | 144.5 | 2812189 | 11008001 |
15 | 59 | 132 | 14 | 164.6 | 5099360 | 16107361 |
16 | 62 | 138 | 15 | 187.1 | 9400731 | 25508092 |
17 | 64 | 142 | 15 | 203.6 | 15273366 | 40781458 |
18 | 66 | 146 | 16 | 221.3 | 26286582 | 67068040 |
19 | 68 | 151 | 16 | 240.5 | 62890590 | 129958630 |
20 | 70 | 155 | 16 | 261.2 | 212046017 | 342004647 |
21 | 72 | 159 | 17 | 283.4 | N/A | N/A |
22 | 74 | N/A | 17 | 307.4 | N/A | N/A |
23 | 76 | N/A | 18 | 333.1 | N/A | N/A |
24 | 78 | N/A | 18 | 360.9 | N/A | N/A |
25 | 80 | N/A | 18 | 390.8 | N/A | N/A |
26 | 82 | N/A | 19 | 422.9 | N/A | N/A |
27 | 84 | N/A | 19 | 457.4 | N/A | N/A |
28 | 86 | N/A | 19 | 494.6 | N/A | N/A |
29 | 88 | N/A | 20 | 534.5 | N/A | N/A |
30 | 90 | N/A | 20 | 577.5 | N/A | N/A |
31 | 91 | N/A | 20 | 600.1 | N/A | N/A |
32 | 92 | N/A | 20 | 623.6 | N/A | N/A |
33 | 93 | N/A | 21 | 647.9 | N/A | N/A |
34 | 94 | N/A | 21 | 673.1 | N/A | N/A |
35 | 95 | N/A | 21 | 699.2 | N/A | N/A |
36 | 96 | N/A | 21 | 726.3 | N/A | N/A |
37 | 97 | N/A | 21 | 754.4 | N/A | N/A |
38 | 98 | N/A | 22 | 783.4 | N/A | N/A |
39 | 99 | N/A | 22 | 813.5 | N/A | N/A |
40 | 100 | N/A | 22 | 844.8 | N/A | N/A |
Item acquisition
Wintertide Brand can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Wintertide Brand can be created from the following recipes:
Amount | Part | Description | Meta |
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13 | The CataclysmThe Cataclysm13Level 21 Spell Gem CorruptedThe mighty warriors traded in blows, the nimble archers in arrows, yet it was the brazen thaumaturgists who would bring catastrophe to all. | Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem | A |
6 | The FoxThe Fox6Level 20 Gem"Masters of wit, strength and cunning. To survive the harsh winters, you must be like the fox." - Ezomyte Proverb | Random level 20 gem | A |
3 | Gemcutter's PromiseGemcutter's Promise3Gem Quality: +20%"I swore to use my position to help the people. What good is power when it just accumulates on the already-powerful?" - Erasmus, Imperial Gemcutter | Random gem with 20% quality | A |
1 | Gemcutter's IncubatorGemcutter's IncubatorStack Size: 10Adds an incubated Quality Gem item to an equippable item Item drops after killing {0} monstersRight click this item then left click an item to apply it. The Incubated item drops after killing a specific number of monsters. | Random gem with 1–20% quality | A |
1 | The VoidThe Void1Reach into the Void and claim your prize. | Random divination card set exchange | A |
Quest reward
This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:
Class → | Witch | Shadow | Ranger | Duelist | Marauder | Templar | Scion |
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Quest ↓ | |||||||
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
Vendor reward
This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:
Class → | Witch | Shadow | Ranger | Duelist | Marauder | Templar | Scion |
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Quest ↓ | |||||||
The Siren's Cadence Act 1 Nessa | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
A Fixture of Fate Act 3 Siosa | ✓ | ||||||
Fallen from Grace Act 6 Lilly Roth | ✓ |
Threshold jewels
The following threshold jewels augment Wintertide Brand:
Note that the jewels may be drop disabled and can only be found in permanent leagues as legacy items.
Item | Limit | Radius | Stats | Drop Enabled |
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Related helmet enchantments
The following helmet enchantments affect Wintertide Brand.
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 | |
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Enchantment Winter Brand Chill Efffect 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand has 25% increased Chill Effect | helmet 100 |
Enchantment Winter Brand Chill Efffect 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand has 40% increased Chill Effect | helmet 100 |
Enchantment Winter Brand Damage 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand deals 25% increased Damage | helmet 100 |
Enchantment Winter Brand Damage 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand deals 40% increased Damage | helmet 100 |
Enchantment Winter Brand Stages 1 | 66 | Merciless Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand has +2 to maximum Stages | helmet 100 |
Enchantment Winter Brand Stages 2 | 75 | Eternal Labyrinth | Wintertide Brand has +4 to maximum Stages | helmet 100 |
Version history
Version | Changes |
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3.11.0 |
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