Herald of Ice

Herald of Ice is a Herald skill. It reserves mana to grant added cold damage to attacks and spells and causes frozen enemies you shatter to explode, dealing cold damage in an area.

Skill functions and interactions
Explode on Shatter: While Herald of Ice is active, if you kill a frozen enemy (thereby shattering it), an explosion will be created that deals cold secondary damage to other enemies in an area. This explosion can be modified by support gems linked to Herald of Ice, such as or.

Spell Damage: Because of the line, support gems which grant more spell damage, increases and reductions to spell damage on the passive tree, or even critical modifiers such as will not apply.

Increased Cold Damage: The from quality applies globally to all cold damage.

Area of Effect: Area of Effect modifiers from passives, items, and gems affect the radius of the on-kill explosion.

Related unique items
The following unique items are related to Herald of Ice:

Related passive skills
The following passive skills are related to Herald of Ice:

Version history

 * Now instant by default and can therefore be used while moving.
 * All instant skills now have cooldown 1 second or less.
 * Instant skills cannot be supported by Spell Echo and will not be cast a second time by similar effects (such as from the Echoing Shrine).


 * Added Herald gem tag.


 * Shattering effect no longer reflects damage to the player. Reduced added damage at all levels.


 * and have been changed from Spell to Cast active skill types to indicate that they deal secondary damage and not spell damage.


 * Herald of Ice no longer has the Spell tag, and instead has the Cast tag (to make it more clear that it does not deal spell damage).


 * The shattering damage area of effect radius has been increased by 20%. The damage on shatter has been increased by 100%.


 * Herald of Ice has been added to the game.
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