Cold Snap

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"Damage isn't everything. Weavers of Magic often find themselves facing a difficult dilemma in combat: fight or flight. When the latter option is decided, nothing does a better job of ensuring safety than Cold Snap. With a snap of the fingers, the caster summons a clump of freezing ice crystals from the ground. These frosty shards stab upward at the targeted location, impaling and freezing anything they strike. Though the damage from Cold Snap is low, it is a powerful when employed against other players in combat."

— Description on the official Path of Exile website

Cold Snap is a spell that deals cold damage to enemies in an area and has a high chance to freeze.

Gem level progression

Template:GemLevelTable |- ! 1 | 4 || 16 || 11 || 8-15 || 841 |- ! 2 | 6 || 20 || 12 || 12-17 || 3,099 |- ! 3 | 9 || 27 || 13 || 15-22 || 7,433 |- ! 4 | 12 || 33 || 14 || 18-27 || 15,249 |- ! 5 | 15 || 39 || 15 || 23-34 || 41,517 |- ! 6 | 19 || 48 || 16 || 30-45 || 81,983 |- ! 7 | 23 || 56 || 17 || 39-59 || 199,180 |- ! 8 | 28 || 67 || 18 || 54-81 || 604,431 |- ! 9 | 33 || 77 || 19 || 72-108 || 631,832 |- ! 10 | 39 || 90 || 20 || 100-150 || 959,669 |- ! 11 | 43 || 98 || 21 || 124-186 || 1,426,490 |- ! 12 | 46 || 104 || 22 || 145-217 || 2,737,323 |- ! 13 | 49 || 111 || 23 || 169-253 || 3,289,072 |- ! 14 | 52 || 117 || 24 || 196-294 || 3,351,223 |- ! 15 | 55 || 123 || 25 || 227-341 || 9,936,192 |- ! 16 | 58 || 130 || 26 || 263-394 || 21,346,246 |- ! 17 | 61 || 136 || 26 || 303-455 || 50,693,883 |- ! 18 | 64 || 142 || 27 || 350-524 || 90,050,361 |- ! 19 | 66 || 146 || 27 || 384-576 || 147,034,294 |- ! 20 | 68 || 151 || 28 || 421-632 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 21 | 68 || 151 || 28 || 462-693 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 22 | 68 || 151 || 29 || 506-759 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 23 | 68 || 151 || 29 || 554-832 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 24 | 68 || 151 || 30 || 607-910 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 25 | 68 || 151 || 30 || 664-996 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 26 | 68 || 151 || 30 || 726-1089 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 27 | 68 || 151 || 30 || 794-1191 || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |- ! 28 | 68 || 151 || || || class="table-na" style="text-align: center; " | N/A |}

Alternate skill effects

Name	Cost	Description
Cold Grasp EffectCold Grasp EffectSkill Gem EffectYour Cold Snap becomes a grasping hand of frost	70	Replaces the standard ice effect on a Cold Snap gem with an icy, grasping hand that emerges from the ground. Preview

Version history

Version	Changes
2.0.0	Quality now instead increases area of effect by 0.5% per 1%, and no longer affects freeze or chill duration.
1.2.0	Cold Snap: We changed the freeze chance to 30% at all levels. We increased the damage of Cold Snap by 50% at all levels.
1.1.0	Increased the damage of the following skills at low levels: Spark, Cold Snap, Ice Spear and to a lesser extent, Freezing Pulse and Storm Call.
0.10.0	Damage significantly increased (40% higher at Level 1, 105% higher at Level 15).
0.9.11	Increased its damage. Now has a cooldown which can by bypassed by spending a Power Charge.
0.9.5g	Fixed a bug where maximum distance could be bypassed with shift-casts.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Cold Snap (4%).
0.9.3c	Reduced damage by 10%.
0.9.2	Massively increased Cold Snap's chill duration bonus.
0.9.1	Disabled the ability to cast Cold Snap on invalid locations.