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 critical 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: The first form naturally pierces all targets, but additional targets pierce allows the second form to pierce targets aswell.
• Fork and Chain: In the first form Ice Spear doesn't fork or chain but in the second form it does and stays at the second form after it.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Cold Damage	increased Chill Duration	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	33	8	22 to 33	N/A	0	0
2	15	39	9	28 to 42	N/A	15249	15249
3	19	48	10	37 to 56	N/A	41517	56766
4	23	56	11	48 to 72	N/A	81983	138749
5	27	64	12	62 to 93	N/A	147968	286717
6	31	73	13	78 to 118	N/A	250557	537274
7	35	81	14	99 to 148	N/A	405086	942360
8	38	88	15	116 to 174	N/A	447718	1390078
9	41	94	16	137 to 205	N/A	615318	2005396
10	44	100	16	160 to 240	N/A	834639	2840035
11	47	106	17	187 to 280	N/A	1570760	4410795
12	50	113	18	218 to 326	N/A	1633987	6044782
13	53	119	19	253 to 379	N/A	2151030	8195812
14	56	125	19	293 to 439	N/A	2812189	11008001
15	59	132	20	338 to 508	N/A	5099360	16107361
16	62	138	21	391 to 586	N/A	9400731	25508092
17	64	142	21	429 to 644	N/A	15273366	40781458
18	66	146	22	472 to 707	N/A	26286582	67068040
19	68	151	22	518 to 776	N/A	62890590	129958630
20	70	155	23	568 to 852	N/A	212046017	342004647
21	72	159	24	622 to 933	N/A	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	24	682 to 1023	N/A	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	25	746 to 1120	N/A	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	25	817 to 1225	N/A	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	26	893 to 1340	N/A	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	26	977 to 1465	N/A	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	27	1067 to 1601	N/A	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27	1165 to 1748	N/A	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28	1272 to 1908	N/A	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	28	1388 to 2083	N/A	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	28	1450 to 2175	N/A	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	29	1514 to 2272	N/A	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	29	1581 to 2372	N/A	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	29	1651 to 2477	N/A	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	29	1724 to 2586	N/A	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	30	1800 to 2700	N/A	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	30	1879 to 2818	N/A	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	30	1961 to 2942	N/A	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	30	2047 to 3070	N/A	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	31	2136 to 3204	N/A	N/A	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

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Ice Spear.

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 Spear Additional Projectile 1	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Ice Spear fires an additional Projectile	helmet 75
Enchantment Ice Spear Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Ice Spear Damage	helmet 0
Enchantment Ice Spear Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Ice Spear Damage	helmet 0
Enchantment Ice Spear Distance Before Form Change 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	Ice Spear travels 20% reduced distance before changing forms	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Spear Distance Before Form Change 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	Ice Spear travels 30% reduced distance before changing forms	helmet 75
Enchantment Ice Spear Percent Chance To Gain Power Charge On Critical Strike 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	10% Chance to gain a Power Charge on Critical Strike with Ice Spear	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Spear Percent Chance To Gain Power Charge On Critical Strike 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	15% Chance to gain a Power Charge on Critical Strike with Ice Spear	helmet 75
Enchantment Ice Spear Second Form Critical Strike Chance 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	200% increased Ice Spear Critical Strike Chance in second form	helmet 100
Enchantment Ice Spear Second Form Critical Strike Chance 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	300% increased Ice Spear Critical Strike Chance in second form	helmet 75

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	70% more damage at gem level 20.
2.0.0	The Awakening Launch: complete rebalance of the Skill Gem. Now grants 2% increased projectile speed per 1% quality (was 3% per 1% 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.
0.8.4	Added new skill prototype: Ice Spear