Freezing Pulse

Sometimes a spellcaster just needs crowd control. When beset by a hostile throng, masters of ice magic frequently employ the deadly Freezing Pulse. The spell pierces easily through the thickest hide and the toughest armor, spinning and freezing in an icy whirl until it impacts a distant target. The Pulse is at peak strength when it's cast, so it has the greatest effect on enemies that are right up next to the caster. Of course, these are also the enemies presenting the most threat, and they are left frozen solid or slain outright.

Description on the official Path of Exile website

Freezing Pulse is a cold spell, launching a short-ranged projectile which passes through enemies with a chance of freezing them.

Skill functions and interactions

• Automatic piercing: Freezing Pulse has a 100% chance to pierce enemies, but cannot travel through terrain obstacles. Modifiers to pierce, aswell as other projectile effects (e.g. forking and chaining) do not have any effect.

• Chance to freeze: The Freezing Pulse projectile inherently has a 25% chance to freeze at the point of origin. The chance to freeze decreases in a linear fashion. The freeze chance along the projectile's path is defined as the difference of the initial chance to freeze and the percentage of the projectile's maximum lifetime that has already elapsed as a percentage. Therefore, after one quarter of the projectile's lifetime, Freezing Pulse's chance to freeze is 0%, in terms of the skill itself, excluding any other chances to freeze the caster may have.

• Projectile speed: The projectiles move at an average speed of approximately 165 units/sec, for 0.375 seconds, making their effective range at approximately 60 units. Modifiers to projectile speed cause the projectiles to travel farther before they dissipate, effectively increasing their range. Freezing Pulse modified by projectile speed will cause more damage and have a better chance to freeze at every point along its trajectory than a slower Freezing Pulse projectile would, because the chance to freeze is based on the lifetime elapsed of the projectiles (and not distance travelled. Thus, a faster projectile has had less time to dissipate and has a longer maximum range and therefore a higher chance to freeze than a slower projectile. This is true at all points along the projectile's path, while the chance to freeze is greater than zero.

• AoE: modifiers to area of effect have no effect on Freezing Pulse.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Cold Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	1	0	5	8 to 12	0	0
2	2	0	5	9 to 15	70	70
3	4	16	6	12 to 18	308	378
4	7	22	7	17 to 26	1554	1932
5	11	31	7	25 to 38	6667	8599
6	16	41	9	38 to 56	26047	34646
7	20	50	10	50 to 76	49725	84371
8	24	58	11	66 to 100	95714	180085
9	28	67	11	86 to 130	169595	349680
10	32	75	12	111 to 167	283759	633439
11	36	83	13	142 to 212	453996	1087435
12	40	92	14	179 to 268	703128	1790563
13	44	100	15	225 to 337	1061223	2851786
14	48	109	16	281 to 421	2065870	4917656
15	52	117	17	349 to 524	2507110	7424766
16	56	125	18	432 to 648	5798936	13223702
17	60	134	19	533 to 799	15083919	28307621
18	64	142	20	655 to 983	27792735	56100356
19	67	148	21	763 to 1145	43869739	99970095
20	70	155	21	888 to 1332	242081556	342051651
21	72	159	22	982 to 1473	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	22	1084 to 1627	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	23	1197 to 1796	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	23	1321 to 1982	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	24	1457 to 2185	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	24	1606 to 2409	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	25	1769 to 2654	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	25	1949 to 2923	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	26	2145 to 3218	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	26	2360 to 3540	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	26	2475 to 3713	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	27	2596 to 3894	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	27	2722 to 4083	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	27	2854 to 4281	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	27	2992 to 4489	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	27	3137 to 4705	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	28	3288 to 4932	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	28	3446 to 5170	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	28	3612 to 5418	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	28	3785 to 5678	N/A	N/A

Threshold jewels

The following threshold jewels augment Freezing Pulse:

Item	Limit	Radius	Stats
First SnowFirst Snow Cobalt JewelLimited to: 2 Radius: Medium(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Freezing Pulse fires 2 additional Projectiles With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, 25% increased Freezing Pulse Damage if you've Shattered an Enemy RecentlyCadiro watched young Chitus play in the frostbitten grass, care-free, happy, and unburdened by the responsibility the Perandus scion would soon endure.Place into an allocated Jewel Socket on the Passive Skill Tree. Right click to remove from the Socket.	2	Medium	(7-10)% increased Projectile Damage With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Freezing Pulse fires 2 additional Projectiles With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, 25% increased Freezing Pulse Damage if you've Shattered an Enemy Recently

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Freezing Pulse.

Name		Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Cast Speed 1	66	8% increased Freezing Pulse Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Cast Speed 2	75	12% increased Freezing Pulse Cast Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Damage 1	66	25% increased Freezing Pulse Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Damage 2	75	40% increased Freezing Pulse Damage	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Projectile Speed 1	66	20% increased Freezing Pulse Projectile Speed	helmet 100 default 0
Enchantment Freezing Pulse Projectile Speed 2	75	30% increased Freezing Pulse Projectile Speed	helmet 100 default 0

Version history

Version	Changes
2.1.0	Damage has been increased by around 20% at all levels. Now gains 1% projectile speed per gem level over 1.
2.0.0	Damage increased by 25% to compensate for the shotgunning mechanic change.
1.2.0	The mana cost of all skills has been revised. We have increased its projectile speed. Damage is increased by 50% at level 1 (to 40% at level 20).
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.
0.11.0	Damage has been reduced.
0.9.9	Increased cast speed, reduced mana cost, slightly reduced damage.
0.9.7b	Increased the damage of level 1.
0.9.7	The damage has been increased.
0.9.5	Increased damage progression.
0.9.4c	Set the default critical strike chance of Freezing Pulse (6%).
0.9.3c	Reduced damage by 10%.
0.9.3	Freezing Pulse now scales all damage from support gems in the same way as the main skill damage (Based on distance).
0.9.1	Updated effect for Freezing Pulse. Reduced damage and collision size.
0.8.7	Freezing Pulse added to the game.