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Ice Shards

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Ice ShardsAmmunition, Attack, AoE, Projectile, Cold
Tier: 5
Level: 1
Cost: 18 Mana
Attack Speed: 550% of base
Attack Damage: 7% of base
Loads your Crossbow with a clip of icy bolts that rapidly fire at the ground, leaving a shard of ice at the impact location unless the bolt hits an enemy. The ice shards shatter when enemies step on them, dealing damage to nearby enemies. Using this skill again reloads the clip.Converts 60% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage
Knocks Back Enemies
Can fire 12 Bolts before reloading
50% less Freeze Buildup
Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill. These are found in the Skill Gems panel.
Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem

Ice Shards is a crossbow ammunition skill. It loads your crossbow with multiple bolt with physical to cold damage conversion. These bolts can be aimed at the ground to leave ice shards on the ground that break and deal damage to enemies that step on them.

Skill functions and interactions

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelMana
Cost
Damage
Effectiveness
Attack
Damage
1118100%7%

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 Deep Freeze Encumbrance Scattershot
II Close Combat Fresh Clip Primal Armament
III Culling Strike Elemental Focus Fork

Item acquisition

Ice Shards has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Ice Shards has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemDescription

Version history

Version Changes
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.