Creeping Frost

Arctic Breath is a projectile cold spell that launches a frozen skull, leaving a trail of ground ice behind it. The skull explodes on impact, creating more ground ice and damaging targets within an area.

Skill functions and interactions

• Area of Effect: The radius of the explosion caused by collision (with either an enemy or a terrain obstruction) is affected by all AoE increases. Full spell damage is done to any enemy in range of the explosion. 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 .

• Projectile: While and will increase the number of projectiles, a single target can only be hit by one projectile of Arctic Breath. 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, Arctic Breath is capable of "shotgunning" an enemy.

• Duration: Increases/decreases to duration affect length of time the chilled ground remains.

• Arctic Breath leaves chilled ground behind the projectile as it travels, as well as around the area of the explosion.

Gem level progression

Level				Mana Cost	Base Duration	Cold Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	12	14	21	7	N/A	11 to 16	0	0
2	15	17	25	8	N/A	14 to 21	15249	15249
3	19	21	30	9	N/A	19 to 28	41517	56766
4	23	24	35	9	N/A	25 to 37	81983	138749
5	27	28	41	10	N/A	33 to 49	147968	286717
6	31	32	46	11	N/A	43 to 64	250557	537274
7	35	36	51	12	N/A	55 to 82	405086	942360
8	38	38	55	13	N/A	66 to 98	447718	1390078
9	41	41	59	14	N/A	78 to 117	615318	2005396
10	44	44	63	14	N/A	93 to 139	834639	2840035
11	47	47	67	15	N/A	111 to 166	1570760	4410795
12	50	49	71	15	N/A	131 to 196	1633987	6044782
13	53	52	75	16	N/A	155 to 231	2151030	8195812
14	56	55	79	16	N/A	183 to 273	2812189	11008001
15	59	58	83	17	N/A	215 to 321	5099360	16107361
16	62	60	87	18	N/A	252 to 376	9400731	25508092
17	64	62	90	18	N/A	280 to 418	15273366	40781458
18	66	64	92	19	N/A	311 to 465	26286582	67068040
19	68	66	95	19	N/A	345 to 516	62890590	129958630
20	70	68	98	20	N/A	383 to 572	212046017	342004647
21	72	70	100	21	N/A	425 to 634	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	21	N/A	470 to 702	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	21	N/A	521 to 778	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	21	N/A	576 to 860	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	22	N/A	638 to 952	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	22	N/A	705 to 1052	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	23	N/A	779 to 1163	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	23	N/A	860 to 1284	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	24	N/A	950 to 1417	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	24	N/A	1048 to 1564	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	24	N/A	1101 to 1643	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	1156 to 1725	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	1214 to 1812	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	1275 to 1903	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	25	N/A	1338 to 1997	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	26	N/A	1405 to 2097	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	26	N/A	1475 to 2201	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	26	N/A	1548 to 2311	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	26	N/A	1625 to 2425	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	27	N/A	1705 to 2545	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Creeping Frost.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Creeping Frost Chilling Area Movement Velocity 1	75	Creeping Frost's Chilling Area has 38% increased Movement Speed	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Damage 1	66	25% increased Creeping Frost Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Damage 2	75	40% increased Creeping Frost Damage	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Duration 1	66	24% increased Creeping Frost Duration	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Duration 2	75	36% increased Creeping Frost Duration	helmet 75 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Area Of Effect 1	66	16% increased Creeping Frost Area of Effect	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Area Of Effect 2	75	24% increased Creeping Frost Area of Effect	helmet 75 default 0

Version history

Version	Changes
2.4.0	35% more damage at gem level 20.
2.0.0	Explosion area increased (to 12). The radius of the chilled ground left by the explosion now matches the radius of the explosion.
1.2.0	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.
1.1.2	's damage has been increased by 42% at level 1, up to an increase of 95% at level 15.
1.0.0b	Fixed a performance problem with Ice Shot and .
0.9.12	has been added to the game.