Ice Spear

"Harnessing the freezing might of the far North, the caster conjures a lance of razor sharp ice crystal, and launches it at a target. The Ice Spear pierces armor and flesh alike, rocketing towards an enemy and exploding in a blast of deadly rime. The blast will freeze the blood of its target, locking them in place for a substantial duration. Enemies pierced by the spear take significant damage, but will avoid the paralysis of the main explosion."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Ice Spear is a cold spell that fires a shard of ice that pierces close enemies and explodes on a distant enemy, with increased critical strike chance.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Increased Chill Duration: Chill effects caused by either form will last longer than they normally would for the given damage value.

Multiple Stages: This spell has two forms. The first form has 100% natural piercing. Once the projectile reaches a preset distance from the caster, it will instantly change to its second form. The second form will not pierce enemies without modification, but has a 600% increased chance to critically strike. With a base critical strike chance of 7%, the second form will have 49% chance to critically strike, before other modifiers. Ice Spear will do full spell damage to monsters hit in either form.

Projectile Speed: x% increased Projectile Speed will not affect the distance at which the spell changes to its second form, but will increase Ice Spear's travel speed.

Piercing: Increased Chance to Pierce will not affect the first form, but can cause the second form to pierce enemies while still retaining its critical chance bonus.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 12 || 33 || 9 || 16-24 || 40% || 15,249 |- ! 2 | 15 || 39|| 10 || 19-28|| 42% || 41,517 |- ! 3 | 19 || 48 || 11 || 24-36 || 44% || 81,983 |- ! 4 | 23 || 56 || 12 || 30-45 || 46% || 147,968 |- ! 5 | 27 || 64 || 13 || 38-57 || 48% || 250,557 |- ! 6 | 31 || 73 || 14 || 48-72 || 50% || 405,086 |- ! 7 | 35 || 81 || 16 || 60-90 || 52% || 447,718 |- ! 8 | 38 || 88 || 16|| 70-105|| 54% || 615,318 |- ! 9 | 41 || 94 || 17 || 82-123|| 56% || 834,639 |- ! 10 | 39 || 90 || 19 || 74-111 || 58% || 959,669 |- ! 11 | 43 || 98 || 21 || 91-136 || 60% || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 104 || 22 || 106-158 || 62% || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 111 || 24 || 122-183 || 64% || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 117 || 25 || 141-212 || 66% || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 123 || 26 || 163-244 || 68% || 9,936,192 |- ! 16 | 58 || 130 || 26 || 187-281 || 70% || 21,346,246 |- ! 17 | 61 || 136 || 26 || 215-322 || 72% || 50,693,883 |- ! 18 | 64 || 142 || 27 || 246-369 || 74% || 90,050,361 |- ! 19 | 66 || 146 || 27 || 269-404 || 76% || 147,034,294 |- ! 20 | 68 || 151 || 28 || 294-441 || 78% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | 70 || 155 || 28 || 321-482 || 80% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 70 || 155 || 29 || 351-525 || 82% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 70 || 155 || 29 || 383-574 || 84% || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Swordfish Ice Spear EffectSwordfish Ice Spear EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Ice Spear becomes a shattering icy swordfish.	110	Replaces the standard effect on an skill gem with a shattering icy swordfish. Preview

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	The Awakening Launch: complete rebalance of the Skill Gem. Quality Bonus changed from +3% Projectile Speed to +2% Projectile Speed per Quality %.
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised. We have increased the damage by 33% at level one, to +87% at level 20.
1.1.0	Increased the damage of the following skills at low levels: , , and to a lesser extent, and .
0.9.5g	Reduced the critical strike chance.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Ice Spear (8%).
0.9.3c	Increased damage by 5%.
0.9.3	Ice Spear now uses an increased Critical Strike chance to achieve the damage bonus and freeze when in its armed state.
0.9.2	Increased the damage.
0.9.1	Updated effect for Ice Spear.