The Whispering Ice Vile Staff

The Whispering Ice

Vile Staff

Warstaves

Quality: +20%

Physical Damage: 49.2 to 91.2

Critical Strike Chance: 7.5%

Attacks per Second: 1.3

Weapon Range: 1.3 metres

Requires Level 33, 59 Str, 59 Int

+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff

+1 to Level of Socketed Support Gems

Grants Level 1 Icestorm Skill

(14–18)% increased Intelligence

(8–12)% increased Cast Speed

1% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence

sound on rare kill ice whisper [1]

Guard your darkest thoughts well, for they are
the cracks through which the Nightmare crawls.

The Whispering Ice Attr /8

Name	Show Full Descriptions
The Market	The Market
Icon	Art/2DItems/Weapons/TwoHandWeapons/Staves/Staff8unique
Icon
Release Version	Warbands and Tempest
BaseType	Vile Staff
Skill	Icestorm
Divination Card	The Incantation The Siren
Reference	poe.ninja, Community Wiki

+20% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff

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Domains	Item (1)
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Stats	staff block % Min: 20 Max: 20 Global
Craft Tags	block

+1 to Level of Socketed Support Gems

Family	IncreaseSpecificSocketedGemLevel
Domains	Item (1)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	local socketed support gem level + Min: 1 Max: 1 Local
Craft Tags	gem

Grants Level 1 Icestorm Skill
sound on rare kill ice whisper [1]

Family	IcestormActiveSkill
Domains	Item (1)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	sound on rare kill ice whisper Min: 1 Max: 1 Global local display grants skill icestorm level Min: 1 Max: 1 Local
Adds Tags	caster_unique_weapon
Craft Tags	skill

Icestorm

Level: 1

Cost: (22–0) Mana

Cast Time: 0.75 sec

Requires Level 1

Icy bolts rain down over the targeted area. They explode when landing, dealing damage to nearby enemies and chilling them, as well as causing patches of chilled ground. Skill damage is based on Intelligence.

Base duration is 1 seconds

Deals 5 to 7 base Cold Damage per 10 Intelligence

One impact every 0.2 seconds

Base radius is 1.6 metres

Maximum 5 Icestorms at a time

0.1 seconds additional Base Duration per 100 Intelligence

base skill show average damage instead of dps [1]

firestorm drop ground ice duration ms [500]

is area damage [1]

skill override pvp scaling time ms [450]

(14–18)% increased Intelligence

Family	PercentageIntelligence
Domains	Item (1)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	intelligence +% Min: 14 Max: 18 Global
Craft Tags	attribute

(8–12)% increased Cast Speed

Family	IncreasedCastSpeed
Domains	Item (1)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	base cast speed +% Min: 8 Max: 12 Global
Adds Tags	has_caster_mod caster_unique_weapon
Craft Tags	caster speed

1% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence

Family	SpellDamagePerIntelligence
Domains	Item (1)
GenerationType	Unique (3)
Req. level	1
Stats	spell damage +% per 10 int Min: 1 Max: 1 Global
Adds Tags	caster_unique_weapon
Craft Tags	caster_damage damage caster

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The Whispering Ice
Vile Staff
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Warstaff
Physical Damage: 41-76
Critical Strike Chance: 6.10%
Attacks per Second: 1.30
Weapon Range: 1.3 metres
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Requirements:
Level: 33
Str: 59
Int: 59
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Sockets: B-B 
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Item Level: 71
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+18% Chance to Block Attack Damage while wielding a Staff (implicit)
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+1 to Level of Socketed Support Gems
Grants Level 1 Icestorm Skill
15% increased Intelligence
10% increased Cast Speed
1% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence
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Guard your darkest thoughts well, for they are
the cracks through which the Nightmare crawls.
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Source	Ingredient	Offer
The Incantation		The Whispering Ice
The Siren		The Whispering Ice

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Modifiers

Grants Level 1 Icestorm Skill– The Whispering Ice grants level 1 Icestorm. Icestorm will be supported by any applicable support gems socketed into The Whispering Ice; the sockets do not have to be linked.

The Whispering Ice has a hidden modifier "Plays Whispering Ice sound on killing a rare Monster". In earlier versions of Path of Exile, this may have caused a ghostly sound effect to play when killing a rare or unique monster. Currently, it does not appear to do anything.

Version history

Version	Changes
3.17.0	Now deals 5 to 7 base Cold Damage per 10 Intelligence (previously 3 to 5). Now has an Added Damage effectiveness of 100% (previously 60%).
3.15.0	Now deals 3-5 Cold Damage per 10 Intelligence (previously 2-4).
3.12.0	The Ice Storm skill has undergone a significant rebalance, with larger impacts falling in a smaller area meaning you are significantly more likely to hit targets within the area multiple times over the storm's duration than before: * Now has 2 to 4 base Cold Damage per 10 Intelligence (from 1 to 3). * Now has a base Duration of 1 second (from 1.5 seconds). * Now gains 0.1 seconds of additional base duration per 100 intelligence (from 0.15 seconds). * There is now 1 impact every 0.2 seconds (from every 0.1 seconds) * Now has an Added Damage effectiveness of 60% (from 45%). * Now has a maximum of 5 storms at a time (any more than that replace the oldest). * Impacts now have a base radius of 16 units (from 10). * Impacts can now land in an area with a base radius of 22 (from 25).
3.11.0	The Icestorm skill granted by this item now has an added damage effectiveness of 45% (from 30%).
3.8.0	Several Staves are now classified as Warstaves. Warstaves can no longer roll caster-related modifiers, while Staves retain their old mod generation behaviour.
3.7.0	Certain staff base types can no longer roll spell-based mods such as added damage for spells or increased spell damage. Their base attack speeds have been slightly increased, and their damage decreased to compensate. This affects all existing versions of these base types. (For a full list, see {{section link\|Version 3.7.0\|Item Balance}}.)
2.6.0	Base type implicit mod increased to 18% Chance to Block (up from 12%). Base type critical strike chance decreased to 6.1% (down from 6.6%).
2.1.2	Fixed a bug where The Whispering Ice was missing its vendor sell price.
2.0.0	Introduced to the game.

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