Winter Orb

Winter OrbCold, Spell, Channelling, AoE, Duration, Projectile, Orb
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (2-4) Mana
Cast Time: 0.25 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 50%Requires Level 28Channel to conjure an orb above you, which pelts nearby enemies with projectiles that impact the ground and explode. Channelling for longer builds up stages on the skill. When you stop channelling, the stages decay over a duration.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3Divergent4Phantasmal0.5% increased Cast Speed0.5% increased Area of Effect1% increased Skill Effect Duration2% increased Projectile SpeedBase duration is 1.6 seconds
Deals (30-232) to (37-291) Cold Damage
Maximum 10 Stages
Fires projectiles every 1.6 seconds
25% increased Duration per Stage
15% increased Projectile Frequency per Stage
100% more Projectile Frequency while Channelling
Increases and Reductions to Cast Speed also apply to Projectile FrequencyPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.Acquisition
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Item class: Active Skill Gems
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemWinterOrb

Winter Orb is a channelling skill (a spell). Channeling the skill charges up an orb, which fires icy projectiles to deal cold damage enemies, which target the ground to deal area of effect damage.

Skill functions and interactions

While Winter Orb has the Projectile keyword, testing shows it appears to gain no benefit from the Fork SupportFork SupportSupport, Projectile
Icon: Y
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 140%Requires Level 31Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first time they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 0.5% increased Projectile DamageProjectiles from Supported Skills have 1% chance for an additional Projectile when ForkingProjectiles from Supported Skills Pierce an additional TargetSupported Skills deal (-10-9)% more Projectile Damage
Projectiles from Supported Skills ForkThis 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., Pierce SupportPierce SupportSupport, Projectile
Icon: p
Level: (1-20)
Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Supports projectile skills.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills deal 0.5% increased Projectile DamageProjectiles from Supported Skills Pierce 0.1 additional TargetsProjectiles from Supported Skills that have Pierced deal 2% increased DamageProjectiles from Supported Skills Pierce (2-4) additional Targets
Supported Skills deal (0-19)% more 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket., or 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.Per 1% Quality:1Superior2Anomalous3DivergentSupported Skills have 1% increased Chaining rangeSupported Skills have 1% increased Projectile SpeedProjectiles Fired by Supported Skills have 4% chance not to Pierce EnemiesSupported Skills Chain +2 times
Supported Skills deal (30-11)% less Damage with HitsThis 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 Active Skill Gem you wish to augment. Right click to remove from a socket. gems, even though the Active Skills window shows them as compatible. Firing projectiles in a nova with causes multiple projects to launch spread out as expected but land not exactly the same distance away from the caster.

Math

Projectile hit rate

Base projectile rate at stage 1 with no cast speed is .625 per second.

The first stage does not gain projectile frequency. Therefore 10 stages gives (9 X 15) = 135% increased projectile frequency. The plus 2 maximum stages helmet enchantment adds 30% projectile frequency.

All cast speed modifiers are additive with the increased projectile frequency. Therefore a 10 stage winter orb with 100% cast speed has (135 + 100) = 235% total increase projectile frequency.

100% more projectile frequency will double your projectile fire rate while channeling.

Example: 10 stages, 100% cast speed. Currently being channeled.

• (.625 x 3.35) = 2.1 (2.1 x 2) = 4.2 per second.

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Winter Orb:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Winter Orb. No results found

Alternate skill effects

Winter Orb has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Effect(s)
Celestial Winter Orb EffectCelestial Winter Orb EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Winter Orb becomes a celestial effect.	Your Winter Orb becomes a celestial effect.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.13.0	Now has a base duration of 1.6 seconds (from 1.2). Got Orb tag.
3.12.0	Now has alternative gem quality.
3.7.0	Deals 30 to 37 cold damage at gem level 1 (from 25 to 31), up to 232 to 291 at gem level 20 (from 232 to 289). Base duration is now 1.2 seconds (from 0 base duration, building solely on stages). Now states that increases and reductions to cast speed now also apply to projectile frequency (actual behaviour is unchanged). Now has a 20% reduced target acquisition range. Now fires projectiles every 1.6 seconds (from every 0.8 seconds) Now gains 25% increased duration per stage (from +0.4 seconds to base duration per stage). Now has 100% more projectile frequency while channelling.
3.6.0	Now deals 25 to 31 Cold damage at gem level 1 (from 23 to 28) and 232 to 289 Cold damage at gem level 20 (from 258 to 322). Now has an added damage effectiveness of 50% (from 60%).
3.5.0	Winter Orb has been added to the game.