Frostbolt

Spell, Projectile, Cold

Level: (1–20)

Cost: (6–25) Mana

Cast Time: 0.75 sec

Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%

Effectiveness of Added Damage: (250–360)%

Projectile Speed: 375

Requires Level (1–70), (10–155) Int

Fires a slow-moving projectile that pierces through enemies, dealing cold damage.

Deals (9–1594) to (13–2392) Cold Damage
Projectiles Pierce all Targets

Additional Effects From Quality:

Projectiles that have Pierced deal (0–20)% more Damage

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

Quest /2 ⍟

Act	Quest	NPC	Character
1	Enemy at the Gate	Quest Reward	Templar
1	Enemy at the Gate	Nessa	Scion · Shadow · Templar · Witch

Genus

Frostbolt

Frostbolt /6 ⍟

Fires a slow-moving projectile spell that pierces through enemies, dealing cold damage with a chance to inflict chill and freeze.

Name	Show Full Descriptions
Added Cold Damage Support	Increases the amount of flat cold damage your Frostbolt does.
Cold Penetration Support	Reduces enemy resistance to cold damage, making them take more cold damage from Frostbolt.
Hypothermia Support	Provides an increase to chill and freeze chance with Frostbolt, as well as providing more damage against chilled enemies.
Controlled Destruction Support	Grants more spell damage to Frostbolt but reduces critical strike chance. The more spell damage provided by this support allows a direct and stable increase in damage not contingent on critical strikes.
Spell Echo Support	Repeats Frostbolt an additional time while also greatly increasing the cast speed.
Faster Casting Support	Increases the cast speed of Frost Bolt, allowing the projectiles to be cast more frequently.

Level Effect /40

Implicit
Projectiles Pierce all Targets

Level	Requires Level	Int	Cost	Deals 9 to 13 Cold Damage	Experience
1	1	10	6	9, 13	70
2	2	12	6	10, 15	308
3	4	16	7	13, 20	1,554
4	7	22	8	18, 27	6,667
5	11	31	9	27, 41	26,047
6	16	41	10	42, 64	49,725
7	20	50	11	59, 89	95,714
8	24	58	12	81, 121	169,595
9	28	67	13	108, 163	283,759
10	32	75	14	144, 216	453,996
11	36	83	15	190, 285	703,128
12	40	92	16	249, 373	1,061,223
13	44	100	18	323, 485	2,065,870
14	48	109	19	418, 627	2,507,110
15	52	117	20	537, 806	5,798,936
16	56	125	21	688, 1033	15,083,919
17	60	134	22	879, 1318	27,792,735
18	64	142	23	1117, 1676	43,869,739
19	67	148	24	1336, 2004	242,081,556
20	70	155	25	1594, 2392
21	72		25	1793, 2689
22	74		26	2014, 3022
23	76		26	2262, 3393
24	78		27	2539, 3809
25	80		27	2849, 4273
26	82		28	3194, 4791
27	84		28	3580, 5369
28	86		29	4010, 6015
29	88		30	4490, 6735
30	90		30	5026, 7538
31	91		30	5316, 7974
32	92		31	5623, 8434
33	93		31	5947, 8920
34	94		31	6288, 9433
35	95		31	6649, 9974
36	96		32	7030, 10545
37	97		32	7432, 11149
38	98		32	7857, 11785
39	99		33	8305, 12457
40	100		33	8778, 13166

Attribute /8

Key	Value
Cost	iLvl 1: Normal: 1xScroll of Wisdom
Acronym	Projectile, Pierce
BaseType	Frostbolt
Class	Skill Gems
TargetTypes	Enemy, Ground
Type	Spell, Projectile, ProjectilesFromUser, Damage, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Multicastable, Cold, Triggerable, CanRapidFire
ItemType	Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemFrostBolt
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

Crucible Weapon /2

Weight	Desc
1000 (T5)	+15% to Vortex Critical Strike Chance when Cast on Frostbolt
1000 (T5)	+25% to Vortex Critical Strike Chance when Cast on Frostbolt

Frostbolt Monster /18 ⍟

Name	Modifiers	Spectre
Merveil's Blessed		Y
Puruna, the Challenger	+2 to maximum number of Summoned Totems totem art variation [1] Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Puruna, the Challenger	+5 to maximum number of Summoned Totems totem art variation [1] damage vs tiki totems +% [300] Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Cavern Strider	80% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage	Y
Sand Strider	80% of Physical Damage Converted to Cold Damage	Y
The Unshaped	Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Agent of the Void	Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Void Remnant	cannot be used as minion [1]	N
Void Remnant	cannot be used as minion [1] monster do not fracture [1]	N
Mother Phyia	25% reduced Movement Speed Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped Gain 50% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y
Aurelio Voidsinger	35% increased Cast Speed	Y
Aurelio Voidsinger	35% increased Cast Speed 100% increased maximum Life 100% increased Area of Effect 80% increased Character Size	Y
Daemon		Y
Daemon	100% increased Cast Speed	Y
Dario, the Living Void		Y
Void Construct	Gain 100% of Physical Damage as Extra Cold Damage cannot be used as minion [1]	N
Daemon	monster penalty against minions damage +% final vs player minions [-25]	Y
Kodaka	+5 to maximum number of Summoned Totems totem art variation [1] damage vs tiki totems +% [300] Monsters grant 100% increased Experience 15000% increased Rarity of Items Dropped cannot be stunned for ms after stun finished [2000] cannot be stunned while stunned [1]	Y

Microtransactions /1 ⍟

Black Hole Frostbolt Effect

Your Frostbolt becomes a flying black hole.

Supported By /99 ⍟

Active Type: Spell, Projectile, ProjectilesFromUser, Damage, Trappable, Totemable, Mineable, Multicastable, Cold, Triggerable, CanRapidFire

Icon	Name
Added Fire Damage Support	Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Greater Multiple Projectiles Support	Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support	Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Faster Projectiles Support	Faster Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Added Cold Damage Support	Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Added Lightning Damage Support	Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Strikes Support	Increased Critical Strikes Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Increased Critical Damage Support	Increased Critical Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Knockback Support	Knockback Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Life Leech Support	Life Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech life based on damage dealt.
Added Chaos Damage Support	Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Stun Support	Stun Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making it easier to stun enemies with those skills.
Pierce Support	Pierce Support Supports projectile skills.
Trap Support	Trap Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a trap that will use the skill for you when an enemy walks near it. Traps cannot use channelling skills.
Item Rarity Support	Item Rarity Support Supports any skill that can kill enemies.
Faster Casting Support	Faster Casting Support Supports non-instant spell skills.
Cold to Fire Support	Cold to Fire Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Combustion Support	Combustion Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Elemental Proliferation Support	Elemental Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or could otherwise apply elemental ailments.
Culling Strike Support	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.
Iron Will Support	Iron Will Support Supports spell skills, making the increase to physical melee damage from strength also increase their spell damage.
Spell Totem Support	Spell Totem Support Supports spell skills that are not triggered. Instead of casting that spell, you will summon a totem that casts the spell for you.
Blastchain Mine Support	Blastchain Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
Chance to Flee Support	Chance to Flee Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Blind Support	Blind Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Fire Penetration Support	Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Cold Penetration Support	Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Lightning Penetration Support	Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Elemental Penetration Support	Elemental Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy elemental resistances.
Chain Support	Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
Fork Support	Fork Support Supports projectile skills, making their projectiles fork into two projectiles the first time they hit an enemy and don't pierce it.
Returning Projectiles Support	Returning Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Spell Echo Support	Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, retaliation skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.
Power Charge On Critical Support	Power Charge On Critical Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Burning Damage Support	Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Hextouch Support	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.
Slower Projectiles Support	Slower Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Cast on Death Support	Cast on Death Support Each supported spell skill will be triggered when you die. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Cast when Damage Taken Support	Cast when Damage Taken Support Each supported spell skill will track damage you take, and be triggered when the total damage taken reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Cast when Stunned Support	Cast when Stunned Support Each supported spell skill will have a chance to be triggered when you are stunned. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Vaal skills, channelling skills, and skills with a reservation cannot be triggered.
Block Chance Reduction Support	Block Chance Reduction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Physical to Lightning Support	Physical to Lightning Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Ice Bite Support	Ice Bite Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Hypothermia Support	Hypothermia Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Innervate Support	Innervate Support Supports any skill you use to hit enemies yourself. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Critical Strike Affliction Support	Critical Strike Affliction Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Void Manipulation Support	Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Controlled Destruction Support	Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Swift Affliction Support	Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Elemental Focus Support	Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Ignite Proliferation Support	Ignite Proliferation Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Chance to Bleed Support	Chance to Bleed Support Supports attack skills.
Chance to Poison Support	Chance to Poison Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Deadly Ailments Support	Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Decay Support	Decay Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Efficacy Support	Efficacy Support Supports any skill that deals damage or has a duration.
Vile Toxins Support	Vile Toxins Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Immolate Support	Immolate Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Unbound Ailments Support	Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Brutality Support	Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Arcane Surge Support	Arcane Surge Support Each supported spell will track how much mana you spend on it, granting a buff when the total mana spent reaches a threshold. Cannot support skills used by totems, traps, mines or skills with a reservation.
Volley Support	Volley Support Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects. Does not support skills that fire projectiles in a spiral.
Summon Phantasm Support	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.
Bonechill Support	Bonechill Support Supports any skill that can chill enemies or create chilling areas.
Energy Leech Support	Energy Leech Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, causing those hits to leech energy shield based on damage dealt.
Unleash Support	Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
High-Impact Mine Support	High-Impact Mine Support Supports spells, or attacks that use bows or wands. Instead of using that skill, you will throw a mine that will use the skill for you when you detonate it. Mines cannot use channelling skills.
Greater Volley Support	Greater Volley Support Supports skills that fire projectiles from the user. Does not affect projectiles fired from other locations as secondary effects. Does not support skills that fire projectiles in a spiral.
Awakened Added Fire Damage Support	Awakened Added Fire Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Brutality Support	Awakened Brutality Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Burning Damage Support	Awakened Burning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, or can deal burning damage directly.
Awakened Fire Penetration Support	Awakened Fire Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy fire resistance.
Awakened Added Cold Damage Support	Awakened Added Cold Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Chain Support	Awakened Chain Support Supports projectile skills, and any other skills that chain.
Awakened Cold Penetration Support	Awakened Cold Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy cold resistance.
Awakened Deadly Ailments Support	Awakened Deadly Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Fork Support	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	Awakened Greater Multiple Projectiles Support Supports projectile skills.
Awakened Swift Affliction Support	Awakened Swift Affliction Support Supports any skill that has a duration, or can hit enemies to inflict ailments on them.
Awakened Void Manipulation Support	Awakened Void Manipulation Support Supports any skill that deals damage.
Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support	Awakened Added Chaos Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support	Awakened Added Lightning Damage Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Awakened Controlled Destruction Support	Awakened Controlled Destruction Support Supports attack skills, or spell skills that deal damage.
Awakened Hextouch Support	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	Awakened Elemental Focus Support Supports any skill that hits or burns enemies, or inflicts elemental ailments.
Awakened Lightning Penetration Support	Awakened Lightning Penetration Support Supports any skill that hits enemies, making those hits penetrate enemy lightning resistance.
Awakened Spell Echo Support	Awakened Spell Echo Support Supports spell skills, making them repeat when cast. Cannot support Vaal skills, totem skills, channelling skills, triggered skills, instant skills, retaliation skills, blink skills, or skills with a reservation.
Awakened Unbound Ailments Support	Awakened Unbound Ailments Support Supports any skill that hits enemies or inflicts ailments
Awakened Unleash Support	Awakened Unleash Support Supports spell skills, making their effect reoccur when cast. Cannot support skills with cooldowns, triggered skills, Brand skills, Vaal skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Archmage Support	Archmage Support Supports spell skills that deal damage with hits and have no reservation. Cannot support arcane skills, Brand skills, Orb skills, Vaal skills, or skills used by totems, traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Pinpoint Support	Pinpoint Support Supports projectile spells you cast yourself. Cannot support triggered skills, Vaal skills, instant skills, channelling skills, skills with a reservation or which create minions, or skills used by totems, traps, or mines.
Trinity Support	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.
Cruelty Support	Cruelty Support Supports any skill that hits enemies. Minions cannot gain Cruelty.
Overcharge Support	Overcharge Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Spellblade Support	Spellblade Support Supports spells that hit enemies. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Devour Support	Devour Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Sacrifice Support	Sacrifice Support Supports spell skills that hit enemies and have no reservation. Cannot support brand skills, orb skills, channelling skills, Vaal skills or skills used by traps or mines. Cannot modify the skills of minions.
Sadism Support	Sadism Support Supports any skill that hits enemies.
Rupture Support	Rupture Support Supports attack skills.

Frostbolt Unique /1 ⍟

Frozen Trail Cobalt Jewel

(7–10)% increased Projectile Damage
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Frostbolt fires 2 additional Projectiles
With at least 40 Intelligence in Radius, Frostbolt Projectiles gain 40% increased Projectile Speed per second

Community Wiki

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Frostbolt

Frostbolt is a cold spell that fires a slow-moving projectile that pierces all targets. Frostbolt interacts with Ice Nova and Vortex, allowing those spells to be cast on Frostbolt projectiles instead of the player.

Skill functions and interactions

Ice Nova and Vortex: When Ice Nova or Vortex is cast while the player has active Frostbolt projectiles, the skills will be cast on the projectiles rather than the player but with 20% less area of effect. Ice Nova will cast on up to 2 Frostbolts, and Vortex will cast on up to 4. Vortex will consume the projectiles, but Ice Nova will not.
Projectile speed: Frostbolt's total projectile distance traveled is not affected by changes to projectile speed (such as Faster Projectiles Support or Slower Projectiles Support).
Fork and Chain: Frostbolt projectiles will always pierce, and therefore can never fork or chain.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Frostbolt now deals 9 to 13 Cold Damage at gem level 1 (unchanged), up to 1594 to 2392 at gem level 20 (previously 972 to 1458). Now has 360% Effectiveness of Added Damage at all gem levels (previously 220%). Quality on the Anomalous Frostbolt Skill gem no longer provides 0-100% reduced Damage, or 0-20% chance to inflict Cold Exposure on Hit. Instead, it now provides "Gain 0-40% increased Projectile Speed per second".
3.11.0	Now has an added Damage effectiveness of 220% (from 160%). Fixed an instance crash related to '''Frostbolt'''.
3.6.0	Mana Cost at gem level 20 is now 25 (was 20). Now deals 9 to 13 Cold damage at gem level 1 (from 6 to 10) and 972 to 1458 Cold damage at gem level 20 (from 753 to 1129)
2.3.0	Introduced to the game.

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