Frost Nova
A ring of frost bursts from you, damaging and chilling nearby enemies.
- Type
- Spell
- Mana cost
- 11 at level 1
- Speed
- 1.4 casts per second
- Damage
- 7–11 Cold
- Critical chance
- 6%
Lore Concept
Frost Nova is the Tide turned against itself, which the Stilled find obscene.
How it works
Hits every enemy within 5 tiles of you with one shared damage roll, chilling them all.
Scales with
- Increased cold damage
- Increased spell damage
- Increased damage
- Increased cast speed
- Increased critical strike chance
- Critical strike multiplier
- Spell skill level
- Increased area of effect
Damage by gem level
Base damage before any increases, critical strikes or resistances. A gem is as strong as a character of the level it requires (1.12 times per level of that), and each +1 to the level of spell skills counts as one more such level.
| Type | Gem 1 | Gem 5 | Gem 10 | Gem 15 | Gem 20 | Gem 25 | Gem 30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cold | 7–11 | 22–34 | 235–369 | 2266–3561 | 17424–27380 | 95370–149867 | 522014–820308 |
As a gem
A Intelligence gem with the tags Spell, Area, Cold. It requires 9 Intelligence at gem level 1; 120 Intelligence at gem level 10; 257 Intelligence at gem level 20; 365 Intelligence at gem level 30. Support gems that fit it: Faster Casting, Increased Area, Concentrated Effect, Elemental Focus, Critical Strikes.
Mana cost by level
Costs grow 3.5% per level the gem requires, with the gem at the highest level a character of each level can use; support gems multiply it.
| Lv 1 | Lv 2 | Lv 5 | Lv 10 | Lv 20 | Lv 30 | Lv 40 | Lv 50 | Lv 75 | Lv 100 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mana | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 18 | 21 | 26 | 29 | 39 | 49 |
Other skills: Strike, Earthshatter, Fireball, Arc, Ember Dash