Eye of Winter

Eye of WinterSpell, Projectile, Cold
Tier: 13
Level: 1
Cost: 12 Mana
Cast Time: 1.10 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 12.00%Fire a single Eye Projectile which does not Hit enemies. The Eye constantly releases damaging shard Projectiles in a spiral as it flies, plus an extra burst of shards at the end of its flight. If the Eye passes over an Elemental ground surface or Orb, it will take on that surface's effect causing shards to deal more damage of the corresponding Type.Deals 12 to 18 Cold Damage
Fires 8 Shard Projectiles in a Spiral when Projectile ends
Modifiers to number of Projectiles only apply to the final Spiral
Inflicts Critical Weakness on Hit
Gains 50% of damage as the corresponding Type when passing over a Ground SurfaceSkills 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/Gems/SkillGemEyeOfWinter

Eye of Winter is a cold spell skill.

Skill functions and interactions

Projectile speed affects distance traveled by both the eye and shards.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost
1	0	0	12

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I	AccelerationAccelerationSupport, Projectile Tier: 1 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making those Projectiles travel faster.Supported Skills have 40% more Projectile SpeedPlace 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.	Controlled DestructionControlled DestructionSupport, Spell, Critical Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Spells that Hit enemies, boosting their damage but preventing them from dealing Critical Hits.Supported Spells deal 25% more Hit Damage Supported Skills cannot deal Critical HitsPlace 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.	PiercePierceSupport, Projectile Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Projectile skills, making their Projectiles Pierce an enemy but deal less damage after doing so.Projectiles from Supported Skills Pierce an Enemy Projectiles from Supported Skills deal 20% less Damage if they've Pierced an enemyPlace 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.
II	Considered CastingConsidered CastingSupport, Spell Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 115%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Spell Skills that Hit Enemies and you cast yourself, boosting Damage at the cost of Cast Speed.Supported Spell Skills have 15% less Cast Speed Supported Spells deal 35% 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.	Pinpoint CriticalPinpoint CriticalSupport, Critical Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits Enemies, causing it to Critically Hit more often but deal less damage with Critical Hits.Supported Skills have 60% more Critical Hit Chance Supported Skills have 30% less Critical Damage BonusPlace 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.	RicochetRicochetSupport, Projectile Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any Skill which creates Projectiles, giving those Projectiles a chance to Chain when impacting terrain.Projectiles from Supported Skills have 40% chance to Chain an additional time from terrainPlace 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.
III	Cold ExposureCold 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.	Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level.+1 to Level of Supported Cold 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.	Elemental FocusElemental 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.

Item acquisition

Eye of Winter has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Eye of Winter has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.2.0e	Eye of Winter now gains bonus elemental damage when passing through other elemental orbs like Solar OrbSolar OrbSpell, AoE, Sustained, Fire, Duration, Orb Tier: 5 Level: 1 Reservation: 1 spiritCreates a fiery Orb that periodically releases fiery pulses. Enemies that are very close to the Orb are Ignited.Deals 46 to 69 Fire Damage Pulses every 1.4 seconds Explosion radius is 2.5 metres Orb duration is 10 seconds Limit 1 Solar OrbPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab., Orb of StormsOrb of StormsSpell, AoE, Sustained, Lightning, Duration, Chaining, Orb Tier: 3 Level: 1 Reservation: 1 spiritCreates an Orb of electricity that fires Chaining Lightning bolts at nearby enemies.Deals 22 to 65 Lightning Damage Chains 4 times Fires a bolt every 2.85 seconds, and when you use a Lightning Skill near the Orb Orb disappears after 23 bolts Orb radius is 2.8 metres Orb duration is 10 seconds Limit 1 Orb of StormsPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab. or Frost BombFrost BombSpell, AoE, Cold, Duration, Orb Tier: 1 Level: (1-40) Cost: (10-1345) Mana Cooldown Time: 3.50 sec Cast Time: 0.80 sec Critical Strike Chance: 13.00%Create a pulsing Orb of frost. Each pulse inflicts Cold Exposure on nearby enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it explodes, dealing Cold damage to surrounding enemies.Deals (21-578) to (32-867) Cold Damage Pulse and explosion radius are (2-2.7) metres Exposure duration is 8 seconds Orb duration is 3 seconds Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (0–20)% increased Cold Exposure EffectSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel..
0.2.0	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. Eye of Winter now gains 75% of damage as damage of the corresponding Type when passing over an Elemental Ground Effect (previously 50%). The Skill also no longer incorrectly states the Projectile applies the passed over-ground effect to nearby Enemies. Fixed a bug where Eye of Winter passing over multiple ailment ground effects only got the extra damage bonus from the most recent one, rather than all of them.
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.