Creeping FrostSpell, Projectile, Duration, AoE, Cold Level: (1-20) Cost: (7-20) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: (90-130)% AoE Radius: 12Requires Level 12Fire an icy projectile that bursts on impact or when reaching the targeted area, dealing area damage and creating a chilling area that deals cold damage over time. This area will creep across the ground towards nearby enemies until its duration expires.Deals (11-568) to (16-847) Cold Damage Base duration is 5.00 seconds Deals (18.4-2225.7) Base Cold Damage per second Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Base radius is 1.5 metres Base secondary radius is 1.8 metres Can have up to 10 Chilling Areas
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.
Creeping Frost is a projectilecoldspell that launches a frozen skull at a targeted area. The projectile will explode when it reaches the targeted area, or if it comes into contact with an enemy. This explosion causes initial damage and creates a Chilling Area that slows and deals cold damage over time to any enemies that enter it. This chilling area will move in the direction of nearby enemies.
Area of Effect: The radius of the explosion is affected by all AoE increases. Full spell damage is done to any enemy in range of the explosion. Concentrated Effect SupportConcentrated Effect SupportSupport, AoE Icon: o Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 18Supports any skill with an area of effect, regardless of whether that skill deals damage.Supported Skills deal (25-39)% more Area Damage Supported Skills have 30% less Area of Effect
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Area DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. and Area of Effect damage passive nodes will only affect the damage if the projectile does not fork or pierce. Additionally Area of Effect chilled ground effect will only trigger at the end of a projectile chain supported by Chain SupportChain SupportSupport, Chaining, Projectile Icon: c Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.Supported Skills Chain +2 times Supported Skills deal (30-11)% less Damage with Hits
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills have (0.5-10)% increased Chaining rangeThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket..
Projectile: While Lesser Multiple Projectiles SupportLesser Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile Icon: l Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Requires Level 8Supports projectile skills.Supported Skills deal (15-6)% less Projectile Damage Supported Skills fire 2 additional Projectiles
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. and Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportGreater Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile Icon: P Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills.Supported Skills deal (35-26)% less Projectile Damage Supported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. will increase the number of projectiles, a single target can only be hit by one projectile of Creeping Frost. However, an enemy can be hit by multiple explosions from a single cast, provided each projectile can collide with something and there is enough overlap on the enemy. In this sense, Creeping Frost is capable of "shotgunning" an enemy.
Duration: Increases/decreases to duration affect length of time the chilled ground remains.
Creeping Frost's chilling area is not considered Chilled Ground. Enemies affected by Creeping Frost's chilling area counts as being Chilled by you.
Gem level progression
Level
Mana Cost
Damage Effectiveness
Cold DPS
Cold Damage
Exp.
Total Exp.
1
12
14
21
7
90%
18.4
11 to 16
0
0
2
15
17
25
8
90%
25.8
14 to 21
15249
15249
3
19
21
30
9
100%
38.5
20 to 29
41517
56766
4
23
24
35
9
100%
56.1
27 to 40
81983
138749
5
27
28
41
10
100%
80.1
36 to 54
147968
286717
6
31
32
46
11
100%
112.6
48 to 72
250557
537274
7
35
36
51
12
100%
156.5
64 to 95
405086
942360
8
38
38
55
13
110%
201.2
78 to 116
447718
1390078
9
41
41
59
14
110%
256.5
95 to 142
615318
2005396
10
44
44
63
14
110%
325.4
116 to 173
834639
2840035
11
47
47
67
15
110%
411.4
140 to 209
1570760
4410795
12
50
49
71
15
110%
515.6
169 to 253
1633987
6044782
13
53
52
75
16
120%
644.7
204 to 305
2151030
8195812
14
56
55
79
16
120%
803.2
246 to 367
2812189
11008001
15
59
58
83
17
120%
997.5
295 to 440
5099360
16107361
16
62
60
87
18
120%
1232.1
353 to 528
9400731
25508092
17
64
62
90
18
120%
1431.8
398 to 595
15273366
40781458
18
66
64
92
19
120%
1661.2
449 to 670
26286582
67068040
19
68
66
95
19
130%
1926.3
505 to 753
62890590
129958630
20
70
68
98
20
130%
2225.7
568 to 847
212046017
342004647
21
72
70
100
21
130%
2568.3
638 to 952
—
—
22
74
—
—
21
130%
2962.7
717 to 1070
—
—
23
76
—
—
21
130%
3406.8
804 to 1201
—
—
24
78
—
—
21
130%
3913.2
903 to 1347
—
—
25
80
—
—
22
130%
4490.1
1012 to 1511
—
—
26
82
—
—
22
130%
5151.5
1134 to 1693
—
—
27
84
—
—
23
130%
5899.1
1271 to 1897
—
—
28
86
—
—
23
130%
6737.6
1423 to 2124
—
—
29
88
—
—
24
130%
7695.4
1593 to 2378
—
—
30
90
—
—
24
130%
8789.4
1782 to 2660
—
—
31
91
—
—
24
130%
9379
1885 to 2814
—
—
32
92
—
—
25
130%
10006.5
1993 to 2975
—
—
33
93
—
—
25
130%
10682.6
2108 to 3146
—
—
34
94
—
—
25
130%
11402.2
2228 to 3326
—
—
35
95
—
—
25
130%
12158.6
2356 to 3517
—
—
36
96
—
—
26
130%
12963
2490 to 3717
—
—
37
97
—
—
26
130%
13829.1
2632 to 3929
—
—
38
98
—
—
26
130%
14739.2
2782 to 4153
—
—
39
99
—
—
26
130%
15706.9
2940 to 4389
—
—
40
100
—
—
27
130%
16735.4
3107 to 4638
—
—
Item acquisition
Creeping Frost can drop anywhere.
Recipes
Creeping Frost can be created from the following recipes:
Amount
Part
Description
Meta
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 corruptedlevel 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:
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.
Now deals 18.4 Base Cold Damage per second at gem level 1 (previously 16.7), up to 2225.6 at gem level 20 (previously 1391.2). Its Hit Damage remains unchanged.
There was an error which caused Arctic Breath to not correctly inherit damage penalties from gems like Greater Multiple Projectiles SupportGreater Multiple Projectiles SupportSupport, Projectile Icon: P Level: (1-20) Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 150%Requires Level 38Supports projectile skills.Supported Skills deal (35-26)% less Projectile Damage Supported Skills fire 4 additional Projectiles
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: Supported Skills deal (0.5-10)% increased Projectile DamageThis is a Support Gem. It does not grant a bonus to your character, but to skills in sockets connected to it. Place into an item socket connected to a socket containing the Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. after gem level 1. We have fixed this, and have compensated the damage accordingly.
Now deals 11 to 16 Cold Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 383 to 572 Cold Damage at gem level 20 (from 301 to 450).
Now deals 16.7 base Cold Damage per second at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 1391.2 Cold Damage per second at gem level 20 (from 1383.5)
Cast time has been reduced from 1000ms to 800ms. The mana cost has been reduced further than other skills to account for the change in cast time. Its damage has been reduced by 20%. The same change was applied to monster versions of this skill, though to a lesser or no extent if they had a cooldown or mana cost.
Fixed a performance problem with Ice ShotIce ShotAttack, Projectile, AoE, Cold, Bow Level: (1-20) Cost: (6-10) Mana Attack Damage: (149-200)% of base Effectiveness of Added Damage: (149-200)% Projectile Speed: 3260 AoE Radius: 23 / 10Fires an arrow that converts some physical damage to cold on its target and converts all physical damage to cold in a cone behind that target.60% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage Base radius is 2.4 metres Chills Enemies as though dealing (100-195)% more Damage
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (4-80)% increased Area of Effect anglePlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. and Creeping FrostCreeping FrostSpell, Projectile, Duration, AoE, Cold Level: (1-20) Cost: (7-20) Mana Cast Time: 0.60 sec Critical Strike Chance: 6.00% Effectiveness of Added Damage: (90-130)% AoE Radius: 12Requires Level 12Fire an icy projectile that bursts on impact or when reaching the targeted area, dealing area damage and creating a chilling area that deals cold damage over time. This area will creep across the ground towards nearby enemies until its duration expires.Deals (11-568) to (16-847) Cold Damage Base duration is 5.00 seconds Deals (18.4-2225.7) Base Cold Damage per second Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill's Damage Over Time effect Base radius is 1.5 metres Base secondary radius is 1.8 metres Can have up to 10 Chilling Areas
Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: +(0.01-0.2) metres to radiusPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket..