The Whispering Ice

The Whispering Ice is a unique.

Modifiers
The Whispering Ice grants level 1. Icestorm will be supported by any applicable support gems socketed into The Whispering Ice; it is not necessary to have the sockets be linked together. Killing a rare or unique monster with The Whispering Ice equipped will play a ghostly sound effect.

Legacy variants
The Whispering Ice has a legacy variant.


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Version history

 * 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).


 * The Icestorm skill granted by this item now has an added damage effectiveness of 45% (from 30%).


 * 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%).


 * Fixed a bug where The Whispering Ice was missing its vendor sell price.


 * Introduced to the game.
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