Cold Snap

For the Vaal-themed counterpart, see Vaal Cold Snap.

Damage isn't everything. Weavers of Magic often find themselves facing a difficult dilemma in combat: fight or flight. When the latter option is decided, nothing does a better job of ensuring safety than Cold Snap. With a snap of the fingers, the caster summons a clump of freezing ice crystals from the ground. These frosty shards stab upward at the targeted location, impaling and freezing anything they strike. Though the damage from Cold Snap is low, it is a powerful when employed against other players in combat.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Cold Snap is a spell that deals cold damage to enemies in an area and has a high chance to freeze. Note that while Cold Snap has a flat 30% minimum chance to freeze, due to the way freeze mechanics work, enemies will only be frozen if the damage done by Cold Snap exceeds a minimum required percentage of the target's life.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Cold Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	18	26	11	N/A	0	0
2	20	22	31	13	N/A	49725	49725
3	24	25	37	14	N/A	95714	145439
4	28	29	42	15	N/A	169595	315034
5	31	32	46	16	N/A	199345	514379
6	34	35	50	17	N/A	285815	800194
7	37	37	54	18	N/A	401344	1201538
8	40	40	58	19	N/A	554379	1755917
9	43	43	62	20	N/A	755049	2510966
10	46	46	66	21	N/A	1016533	3527499
11	49	48	70	21	N/A	1898602	5426101
12	52	51	74	22	N/A	1964019	7390120
13	55	54	78	23	N/A	2573731	9963851
14	58	57	82	24	N/A	4676439	14640290
15	60	59	84	25	N/A	3017327	17657617
16	62	60	87	25	N/A	7823001	25480618
17	64	62	90	26	N/A	15264208	40744826
18	66	64	92	27	N/A	26272845	67017671
19	68	66	95	27	N/A	62872274	129889945
20	70	68	98	28	N/A	212023122	341913067
21	72	70	100	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	29	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	30	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	31	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	32	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	32	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	33	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	33	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	34	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	34	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	35	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	35	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	35	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	36	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	36	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	36	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	37	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	37	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	37	N/A	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewel

The following threshold jewels augment the skill gem:

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Cold Grasp EffectCold Grasp EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Cold Snap becomes a grasping hand of frost	70	Replaces the standard ice effect on a gem with an icy, grasping hand that emerges from the ground. Preview

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Quality now instead increases area of effect by 0.5% per 1%, and no longer affects freeze or chill duration.
1.2.0	Cold Snap: We changed the freeze chance to 30% at all levels. We increased the damage of Cold Snap by 50% at all levels.
1.1.0	Increased the damage of the following skills at low levels: , , and to a lesser extent, and .
0.10.0	Damage significantly increased (40% higher at Level 1, 105% higher at Level 15).
0.9.11	Increased its damage. Now has a cooldown which can by bypassed by spending a Power Charge.
0.9.5g	Fixed a bug where maximum distance could be bypassed with shift-casts.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Cold Snap (4%).
0.9.3c	Reduced damage by 10%.
0.9.2	Massively increased Cold Snap's chill duration bonus.
0.9.1	Disabled the ability to cast Cold Snap on invalid locations.