Frost Blades

Attack, Projectile, Melee, Strike, Cold
Level: 1–20
Cost: 6 Mana
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 100–175%
Projectile Speed: 2250

Requires Level 1

Attack enemies with increased range, releasing icy blades from the first enemy hit which fly at other enemies. Requires a Melee Weapon.

(2–75) to (3–113) Added Cold Damage
Fires (4–7) additional Projectiles
60% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage
(0–19)% increased Projectile Speed
+(18–21) to Melee Strike Range

Additional Effects From Quality:
(0–20)% increased Projectile Speed
(0–20)% increased Damage

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

Unusual Gems /3

Type	Stats	Weight
Superior	(0–20)% increased Projectile Speed (0–20)% increased Damage	50
Anomalous	Fires (0–2) additional Projectiles	20
Divergent	(0–20)% increased Duration of Cold Ailments	100

Quest /2

Act	Quest Complete	NPC	Character
1	Enemy at the Gate	Quest Reward	Ranger
1	Enemy at the Gate	Nessa	Duelist Ranger Scion Shadow

Frost Blades /6

A projectile based melee attack skill that converts 60% of physical damage to cold damage. The melee strike splits into multiple projectiles when hitting the targeted enemy, potentially dealing damage to multiple secondary targets.

Name	Show Full Descriptions
Ancestral Call Support	Allows Frost Blades to target two additional nearby enemies. With at least three enemies nearby this can result in triple the amount of blade projectiles.
Cold Penetration Support	Reduces enemy resistance to cold damage, making them take more cold damage from Frost Blades.
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support	Multiplies the elemental damage done by Frost Blades. Converting all physical damage from Frost Blades to elemental damage maximizes the benefit this support provides.
Melee Physical Damage Support	Grants more melee physical damage for Frost Blades. Because 60% of physical damage is converted to cold damage, this support will also increase the cold damage done by Frost Blades.
Multistrike Support	Causes Frost Blades to repeat an additional two times, as well as providing a large bonus to attack speed.
Ice Bite Support	Adds additional cold damage to Frost Blades, increasing freeze chance, and granting a chance to gain a Frenzy Charge on killing a frozen enemy. Frenzy Charges increase a player's attack speed, cast speed and damage.

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Cost: 6 60% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage (Affects Melee Strikes, including the Default Attack. Does not apply to Areas of Effect)

Level	Requires Level	Dexterity	Base Damage	2 to 3 Added Cold Damage	Fires 4 additional Projectiles	+18 to Melee Strike Range	#% increased Projectile Speed	Experience
1	1	10	100%	2, 3	4	18		70
2	2	12	103.9%	2, 3	4	18	1	308
3	4	16	107.9%	3, 4	4	18	2	1,554
4	7	22	111.8%	4, 6	4	18	3	6,667
5	11	31	115.8%	5, 8	4	18	4	26,047
6	16	41	119.7%	7, 11	5	19	5	49,725
7	20	50	123.7%	9, 13	5	19	6	95,714
8	24	58	127.6%	11, 17	5	19	7	169,595
9	28	67	131.6%	14, 20	5	19	8	283,759
10	32	75	135.5%	16, 25	5	19	9	453,996
11	36	83	139.5%	20, 30	6	20	10	703,128
12	40	92	143.4%	24, 35	6	20	11	1,061,223
13	44	100	147.4%	28, 42	6	20	12	2,065,870
14	48	109	151.3%	33, 49	6	20	13	2,507,110
15	52	117	155.3%	39, 58	6	20	14	5,798,936
16	56	125	159.2%	45, 68	7	21	15	15,083,919
17	60	134	163.2%	52, 79	7	21	16	27,792,735
18	64	142	167.1%	61, 91	7	21	17	43,869,739
19	67	148	171.1%	68, 102	7	21	18	242,081,556
20	70	155	175%	75, 113	7	21	19
21	72		178.9%	81, 122	8	22	20
22	74		182.9%	87, 130	8	22	21
23	76		186.8%	93, 140	8	22	22
24	78		190.8%	100, 150	8	22	23
25	80		194.7%	107, 160	8	22	24
26	82		198.7%	114, 172	9	23	25
27	84		202.6%	123, 184	9	23	26
28	86		206.6%	131, 197	9	23	27
29	88		210.5%	140, 210	9	23	28
30	90		214.5%	150, 224	9	23	29
31	91		216.4%	155, 232	9	23	29
32	92		218.4%	160, 240	10	24	30
33	93		220.4%	165, 248	10	24	30
34	94		222.4%	171, 256	10	24	31
35	95		224.3%	176, 265	10	24	31
36	96		226.3%	182, 273	10	24	32
37	97		228.3%	188, 282	10	24	32
38	98		230.3%	194, 292	10	24	33
39	99		232.2%	201, 301	10	24	33
40	100		234.2%	207, 311	10	24	34

Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki
Acronym	Melee, Projectile
BaseType	Frost Blades
Class	Active Skill Gems
Weapon	Claws, Daggers, One Hand Swords, Thrusting One Hand Swords, One Hand Axes, One Hand Maces, Staves, Two Hand Swords, Two Hand Axes, Two Hand Maces, Sceptres, Rune Daggers, Warstaves
TargetTypes	Ground, Enemy
Type	Attack, Projectile, MeleeSingleTarget, Multistrikeable, Melee, Cold, RangedAttack, ProjectilesNotFromUser
Metadata	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemFrostBlades

Frost Blades Monster /11 ⍟

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Sandworn Watchman	Undead	Y
Sandworn Watchman	Undead monster beyond portal chance +% final [-35] monster hellscape charge +% [-35]	Y
Mutewind Wildrunner	50% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage monster no map drops [1] 20% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 10% of Damage from Blocked Hits cannot have affliction mods [1]	Y
It of Tul	monster beyond portal chance +% final [-66] monster hellscape charge +% [-66] monster no map drops [1]	Y
It of Tul	monster beyond portal chance +% final [-66] monster hellscape charge +% [-66]	Y
It of Tul	monster no drops or experience [1] cannot be used as minion [1]	N
It That Is Displaced	monster no drops or experience [1] cannot be used as minion [1]	N
Tul, Creeping Avalanche	kill traps mines and totems on death [1] 30% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 15% of Damage from Blocked Hits	Y
Tul, Creeping Avalanche	monster dropped item quantity +% [0] monster dropped item rarity +% [15000] monster slain experience +% [100] unique boss curse effect on self +% final [-33] 30% Chance to Block Attack Damage You take 15% of Damage from Blocked Hits cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Xesht-Ula, the Open Hand		Y
It of Tul	cannot be used as minion [1] monster beyond portal chance +% final [-66] monster hellscape charge +% [-66] monster no map drops [1]	N

Microtransactions /1 ⍟

Icon	Name
	Stygian Frost Blades Effect Your Frost Blades become a Stygian Effect.

Labyrinth Enchantment helmet /4 ⍟

Level	Name	Mod	Weight
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Frost Blades Damage 1	25% increased Frost Blades Damage	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Frost Blades Damage 2	40% increased Frost Blades Damage	100
The Merciless Labyrinth	Enchantment Frost Blades Projectile Speed 1	20% increased Frost Blades Projectile Speed	100
The Eternal Labyrinth	Enchantment Frost Blades Projectile Speed 2	30% increased Frost Blades Projectile Speed	100

Supported By /113 ⍟

Support Gem	Description
Added Fire Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Faster Attacks Support	Supports attack skills.
Greater Multiple Projectiles Support	Supports projectile skills.
Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support	Supports projectile skills.
Faster Projectiles Support	Supports projectile skills.
Added Cold Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Additional Accuracy Support	Supports attack skills.
Added Lightning Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Strikes Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Knockback Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Life Leech Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
Mana Leech Support	Supports attack skills that hit enemies, causing those hits to leech mana based on damage dealt.
Added Chaos Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Stun Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
Pierce Support	Supports projectile skills.
Melee Physical Damage Support	Supports melee attack skills.
Item Rarity Support	Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
Cold to Fire Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Combustion Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Elemental Damage with Attacks Support	Supports attack skills.
Bloodlust Support	Supports melee attack skills, causing them to deal more damage against bleeding enemies, but preventing those skills from inflicting bleeding on enemies in any way.
Life Gain on Hit Support	Supports attack skills.
Elemental Proliferation Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
Culling Strike Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies. If enemies are left below 10% of maximum life after being hit by these skills, they will be killed.
Point Blank Support	Supports projectile skills.
Iron Grip Support	Supports attack skills that fire projectiles, making the increase to physical melee damage from strength also increase their physical projectile damage.
Damage on Full Life Support	Supports attack skills, providing a bonus to all damage dealt by those skills while your life is full.
Chance to Flee Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Blind Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Fire Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Cold Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Lightning Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Elemental Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
Chain Support	Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
Fork Support	Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first time they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.
Multistrike Support	Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat twice when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.
Melee Splash Support	Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
Power Charge On Critical Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Burning Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Hextouch Support	Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
Cast On Critical Strike Support	Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Cast on Melee Kill Support	Must support both a melee attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it kills an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Endurance Charge on Melee Stun Support	Supports melee attack skills.
Slower Projectiles Support	Supports projectile skills.
Vicious Projectiles Support	Supports projectile attack skills.
Block Chance Reduction Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Physical to Lightning Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Fortify Support	Supports melee attack skills that are not triggered.
Ice Bite Support	Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Hypothermia Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.
Innervate Support	Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Critical Strike Affliction Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Void Manipulation Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.
Controlled Destruction Support	Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Swift Affliction Support	Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Elemental Focus Support	Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Ignite Proliferation Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Chance to Bleed Support	Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills that create minions.
Chance to Poison Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Deadly Ailments Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Decay Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Efficacy Support	Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
Vile Toxins Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Maim Support	Supports attack skills, or other skills that can maim enemies.
Immolate Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Unbound Ailments Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Brutality Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.
Ruthless Support	Supports melee strike or slam skills. Every third time you use a supported attack, that use of the skill will be more powerful.
Onslaught Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Ancestral Call Support	Supports melee strike skills, causing them to also strike at extra targets simultaneously. The extra targets must be a minimum distance from the user. If supporting a minion attack skill, the minion's skills will not also strike extra targets. Cannot support triggered skills.
Summon Phantasm Support	Supports skills that can hit enemies, or create minions. When those skills or minions kill enemies, or hit rare or unique enemies they will have a chance to summon a Phantasm minion, which uses a piercing projectile spell that deals physical damage.
Withering Touch Support	Supports attack skills.
Bonechill Support	Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
Energy Leech Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
Close Combat Support	Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
Shockwave Support	Supports melee attack skills. Cannot support Triggered attacks, skills used by Totems, or skills which create minions.
Impale Support	Supports attack skills.
Pulverise Support	Supports melee attack skills.
Rage Support	Supports melee attack skills. Minions cannot gain rage.
Nightblade Support	Supports attack skills. Cannot support skills which create minions.
Barrage Support	Supports projectile attack skills that use bows or wands. Cannot support triggered skills, channelled skills, or skills that create Minions.
Awakened Added Fire Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Ancestral Call Support	Supports melee strike skills, causing them to also strike at extra targets simultaneously. The extra targets must be a minimum distance from the user. If supporting a minion attack skill, the minion's skills will not also strike extra targets. Cannot support triggered skills.
Awakened Brutality Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Burning Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Awakened Elemental Damage with Attacks Support	Supports attack skills.
Awakened Fire Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Awakened Melee Physical Damage Support	Supports melee attack skills.
Awakened Melee Splash Support	Supports melee strike skills, causing their melee strike to deal splash damage around each target hit.
Awakened Multistrike Support	Supports melee attack skills, making them repeat three times when used, targeting a random enemy each time. Cannot support Vaal skills, channelling skills or triggered skills.
Awakened Added Cold Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Cast On Critical Strike Support	Must support both an attack skill and a spell skill to work. The attack skill will trigger a spell when it critically strikes an enemy. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Awakened Chain Support	Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
Awakened Cold Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Awakened Deadly Ailments Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Fork Support	Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first two times they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.
Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support	Supports projectile skills.
Awakened Swift Affliction Support	Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Awakened Void Manipulation Support	Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Vicious Projectiles Support	Supports projectile attack skills.
Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Controlled Destruction Support	Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Awakened Hextouch Support	Must support both a skill that hits enemies, and a hex curse skill to work. The hex will be applied when enemies are hit by the other skill. Cannot support totems, traps, or mines. Minions cannot apply hexes this way.
Awakened Elemental Focus Support	Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Awakened Lightning Penetration Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Awakened Unbound Ailments Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Trinity Support	Supports skills that hit enemies, causing them to gain bonuses while you have resonance of all three elements, and to grant resonance of elements other than the highest one in a hit. There is a maximum of 50 Resonance for each Element. Cannot support triggered skills, instant skills, orb skills, brands, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Bloodthirst Support	Supports attack skills. Cannot support triggered skills, skills which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps or mines.
Cruelty Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
Behead Support	Supports strike skills.
Overcharge Support	Supports any skill that hits enemies.

Frost Blades Unique /1 ⍟

Name	Show Full Descriptions
	Fight for Survival Viridian Jewel (10–15)% increased Cold Damage With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Melee Damage dealt by Frost Blades Penetrates 15% Cold Resistance With at least 40 Dexterity in Radius, Frost Blades has 25% increased Projectile Speed

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Frost Blades

Frost Blades is a cold melee attack skill that strikes with increased range, then has the secondary effect of releasing projectiles behind the struck enemies.

Skill functions and interactions

Dual Wielding: Since Frost Blades has no weapon restrictions, attacks will alternate between both hands while dual wielding.

An attack with Frost Blades consists of two parts:

An initial melee hit with the keywords Cold, Attack, Melee
A projectile attack with the keywords Cold, Attack, Projectile

When an enemy is hit by this skill, multiple projectiles fly out from behind the enemy and target nearby enemies. This skill increases the melee range by an appreciable degree. Unlike LightningStrike Lightning Strike, if the initial attack does not hit an enemy, then no projectiles are released.

The projectiles have the same damage multiplier as the initial melee hit, with the same cold damage conversion. However the initial melee attack scales with melee damage modifiers (such as Melee Physical Damage), whereas the projectiles scale with projectile damage modifiers. Both components scale equally with (unspecified) attack, physical, and cold damage modifiers.

multipleattacks Multistrike Support uses the increased attack range of this skill when selecting targets to attack.

Splash Melee Splash Support does not release additional projectiles from secondary targets struck by the initial melee splash, nor does it splash the projectiles' damage. FasterProjectiles Faster Projectiles Support will increase the speed and effective range of the secondary projectiles. RangedPhysicalAttackDamage Vicious Projectiles Support scales all the damage of the projectiles, but not the initial melee attack: attack speed is NOT reduced since the attack animation itself is melee, rather than projectile.

Note: the tooltip DPS shows only the melee attack component damage and DPS. It does not show damage values for the projectile component. To calculate the projectile component, use the formula at the bottom of this page.

Interactions:

Hydrosphere - Attacking a Hydrosphere will make the projectiles from frost blades release. This allows characters to stay out of melee range of monsters, while still releasing projectiles.

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