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 Damage is not affected by modifiers to spell damage, support gems which grant more spell damage, increases and reductions to spell damage on the passive tree, or even critical modifiers such as increased critical strike chance for spells will not apply.

Increased Cold Damage: The Buff grants 0.75% increased Cold Damage 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.

Gem level progression

Level				Spell Cold Damage	Attack Cold Damage	Cold Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	16	26	18	4–5	4–5	18–26	0	0
2	20	31	22	5–7	5–7	23–35	49725	49725
3	24	37	25	6–8	6–8	30–45	95714	145439
4	28	42	29	7–10	7–10	38–57	169595	315034
5	31	46	32	8–12	8–12	45–67	199345	514379
6	34	50	35	9–14	9–14	53–80	285815	800194
7	37	54	37	10–16	10–16	62–94	401344	1201538
8	40	58	40	12–18	12–18	73–110	554379	1755917
9	43	62	43	13–20	13–20	85–128	755049	2510966
10	46	66	46	15–23	15–23	99–149	1016533	3527499
11	49	70	48	17–26	17–26	115–173	1898602	5426101
12	52	74	51	19–29	19–29	134–200	1964019	7390120
13	55	78	54	22–33	22–33	154–232	2573731	9963851
14	58	82	57	24–37	24–37	178–267	4676439	14640290
15	60	84	59	26–39	26–39	195–293	3017327	17657617
16	62	87	60	28–42	28–42	214–321	7823001	25480618
17	64	90	62	30–46	30–46	235–352	15264208	40744826
18	66	92	64	33–49	33–49	257–386	26272845	67017671
19	68	95	66	35–53	35–53	282–422	62872274	129889945
20	70	98	68	38–56	38–56	308–462	212023122	341913067
21	72	100	70	40–61	40–61	337–505	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	43–65	43–65	368–552	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	46–70	46–70	402–603	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	50–75	50–75	438–658	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	53–80	53–80	478–717	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	57–85	57–85	521–782	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	61–91	61–91	568–852	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	65–98	65–98	619–928	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	69–104	69–104	674–1010	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	74–111	74–111	733–1100	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	77–115	77–115	764–1149	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	79–119	79–119	796–1198	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	82–123	82–123	830–1251	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	85–127	85–127	863–1304	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	87–131	87–131	898–1361	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	90–135	90–135	934–1418	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	93–140	93–140	971–1479	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	96–144	96–144	1008–1540	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	99–149	99–149	1046–1605	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	102–154	102–154	1085–1670	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Herald of Ice.

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:

Alternate skill effects

Herald of Ice has the following alternate skill effects:

Version history

Version	Changes
3.4.0	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).
3.0.0	Added Herald gem tag.
2.0.0	Shattering effect no longer reflects damage to the player. Reduced added damage at all levels.
1.3.0	and have been changed from Spell to Cast active skill types to indicate that they deal secondary damage and not spell damage.
1.2.4	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).
1.2.3	The shattering damage area of effect radius has been increased by 20%. The damage on shatter has been increased by 100%.
1.2.0	Herald of Ice has been added to the game.