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Skeletal Frost Mage

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Skeletal Frost MageMinion, Persistent, Cold
Tier: 5
Level: (1-20)
Reservation: (120-39) spirit
Cooldown Time: 6.00 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 12.00%
Summons Reviving Skeletal Frost Mages that can be Commanded to cast icy explosions.Deals 10 to 16 Cold Damage
100% more Magnitude of Chill inflicted
Explosion radius is 2.6 metres

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(0–10)% reduced Reservation
Place into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.
Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.
Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemSkeletalFrostMage

Skeletal Frost Mage is a minion skill that reserves Spirit to summon persistent skeleton mage minions.

Skill functions and interactions

Skeletal Frost Mages automatically revive after 7 seconds after being killed, you can decrease that time with passives from skill tree.

Gem level progression

LevelRequired LevelRequired IntelligenceSpirit
Reservation
111120
23987
361666
4102554
5143449
6184349
7225246
8266146
9317246
10368343
11419543
124610643
135211941
145813341
156414641
166615141
177216439
187817839
198419139
209020539

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 Encumbrance Magnified Effect Meat Shield
II Bidding Commandment Feeding Frenzy
III Cold Exposure Cold Mastery Fork

Item acquisition

Skeletal Frost Mage has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Skeletal Frost Mage has the following alternate skill effects:

ItemDescription

Version history

Version Changes
0.2.0c
  • Minions have approximately 15% more Life through the early Campaign, tapering down to be unchanged by Gem Level 30 (or so).
    • Gem Level 10 Minions now have 41% More Damage.
    • Gem Level 15 Minions now have 50% More Damage.
    • Gem Level 20 Minions now have 60% More Damage.
    • Gem Level 30 Minions now have 79% More Damage.
0.2.0
  • Adjusted Minion Damage and Life scaling. General Damage and Life is the same early game, but lower than before at higher levels, especially past Gem level 20+.
  • Skeletal Frost Mage's Ice Bomb now has an 8 second cooldown (previously 6).
0.1.0
  • Introduced to the game.