Frozen LocusAttack, AoE, Melee, Cold, Duration, Nova Tier: 1 Level: (1-20) Cost: (12-87) Mana Attack Speed: 70% of baseLeap backward and crack the ground with your staff to call forth an Ice Crystal, which creates Chilled Ground around it and can be damaged by you and enemies. If the Crystal is destroyed it causes an icy explosion that deals Attack damage but does not use your weapon's damage. This skill can be used while using other skills.Skills can be managed in the Skills Panel.
Acquisition Drop restricted It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata Item class: Skill Gem Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemFrozenLocus
Frozen Locus can now be used while using other skills to interrupt what you're doing, similarly to dodge roll (though it does not allow you to dodge incoming hits).
Ice crystals can no longer apply on kill effects such as Herald of Ash and Trampletoe's overkill.
Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread.
The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels.
Frozen Locus' explosion now deals 6 to 9 base Quarterstaff Cold Damage at Gem level 1 (unchanged), scaling up to 141 to 212 at Gem level 20 (previously 89 to 134). The damage past Gem level 20 has also been adjusted. Explosion radius is now 2.4 metres (previously 2).
Skills with Expanding ground effects were unintentionally scaling radius over time instead of area of effect. They still scale the radius, though we have updated the descriptions and lowered the values on many of the affected skills:
The Chilled Ground from Frozen Locus now gains 30% more Radius per second, up to a maximum of 150% (from 40%, up to a maximum of 240%).
Deep FreezeSupport, Cold Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing Freeze it inflicts to last longer.Supported Skills have 50% increased Freeze Duration on EnemiesPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.GlaciationSupport, Cold Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, making it more effective at Freezing enemies.Supported Skills cause 50% more Freeze BuildupPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.Magnified EffectSupport, AoE Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 130%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill with an area of effect, making it larger.Supported Skills have 30% more Area of EffectPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.IcicleSupport Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any Skill which creates Ice Crystals, causing them to be created with lower Life.Ice Crystals created by Supported Skills have 50% less LifePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.Primal ArmamentSupport, Attack Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports Attacks that use a weapon, causing them to deal more weapon Elemental damage.Supported Skills deal 25% more Weapon Elemental DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.RimeSupport, Cold Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Skills which create Ground Surfaces, causing Enemies Chilled by those Surfaces to be more easily Frozen, but at the cost of some Chill magnitude.Hits against Enemies in Chilled Ground created by Supported Skills build up Freeze as though dealing 20% more Damage 30% less effect of Chill inflicted by Supported SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.Biting FrostSupport, Cold, Payoff Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing them to deal more damage to Frozen enemies but consume their Freeze. Cannot support skills that ConsumeFreeze.Supported Skills cannot cause Freeze buildup Supported Skills ConsumeFreeze on enemies to deal 50% more DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.Cold ExposureSupport, Cold, Duration, Critical Tier: 3 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to inflict Cold Exposure when it Critically Hits an enemy.Supported Skills inflict Cold Exposure for 8 seconds on Critical Hit with Cold DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.Elemental FocusSupport Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to deal more Elemental Damage but be unable to inflict Elemental Ailments.Supported Skills deal 25% more Elemental Damage Supported Skills cannot inflict Elemental AilmentsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple copies of the same Support Gem socketed at the same time.
Deep Freeze
Glaciation
Magnified Effect
Icicle
Primal Armament
Rime
Biting Frost
Cold Exposure
Elemental Focus
