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title: "Frost Nova"
summary: "Frost Nova: A ring of frost bursts from you, damaging and chilling nearby enemies."
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# Frost Nova

[In game]

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](../../wiki/stats.md#inccold)
- [Increased spell damage](../../wiki/stats.md#incspell)
- [Increased damage](../../wiki/stats.md#incdamage)
- [Increased cast speed](../../wiki/stats.md#castspeed)
- [Increased critical strike chance](../../wiki/stats.md#inccrit)
- [Critical strike multiplier](../../wiki/stats.md#critmulti)
- [Spell skill level](../../wiki/stats.md#spelllevel)
- [Increased area of effect](../../wiki/stats.md#incaoe)

## 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](../../wiki/skills/support-gems.md#faster_casting), [Increased Area](../../wiki/skills/support-gems.md#increased_area), [Concentrated Effect](../../wiki/skills/support-gems.md#concentrated_effect), [Elemental Focus](../../wiki/skills/support-gems.md#elemental_focus), [Critical Strikes](../../wiki/skills/support-gems.md#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](../../wiki/skills/strike.md), [Earthshatter](../../wiki/skills/earthshatter.md), [Fireball](../../wiki/skills/fireball.md), [Arc](../../wiki/skills/arc.md), [Ember Dash](../../wiki/skills/ember-dash.md)