Freezing Salvo

Freezing SalvoAttack, AoE, Projectile, Cold, Staged
Tier: 5
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (16-113) Mana
Attack Damage: (55-172)% of basePassively coalesces icy missiles from the air over time. Using the skill fires a missile, firing an additional missile for each that has been accumulated.Converts 80% of Physical Damage to Cold Damage
(50-107)% more Freeze Buildup
Impact radius is 1.2 metres
Accumulates up to 12 additional missiles
Accumulates a missile every (1.05-0.8) seconds

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Delay between missile accumulation is -(0.01-0.2) seconds shorterSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemFreezingSalvo

Freezing Salvo is a bow projectile attack skill. While equipped, the user will passively generate icy missiles. Using the skill will have the user fire all the stored missiles at the target area, bombarding the area to deal cold damage.

Gem level progression

Level			Mana Cost	Attack Damage	Freeze Buildup	Accumulates missile time
1	0	0	15	48%	50%	—
2	3	9	18	53%	53%	—
3	6	14	20	58%	56%	—
4	10	21	23	63%	59%	—
5	14	28	26	68%	62%	—
6	18	35	29	73%	65%	—
7	22	41	33	79%	68%	—
8	26	48	36	83%	71%	—
9	31	57	40	88%	74%	—
10	36	65	44	92%	77%	—
11	41	74	49	97%	80%	—
12	46	82	54	101%	83%	—
13	52	92	59	106%	86%	—
14	58	103	64	112%	89%	—
15	64	113	70	117%	92%	—
16	66	116	76	123%	95%	—
17	72	126	83	129%	98%	—
18	78	137	90	136%	101%	—
19	84	147	97	143%	104%	—
20	90	157	105	150%	107%	—

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I		Cold AttunementCold AttunementSupport, Attack, Cold Category: Cold Attunement Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Attacks, causing them to Gain Cold Damage but deal less Fire and Lightning Damage.Supported Attacks Gain 25% of Damage as extra Cold Damage Supported Attacks deal 50% less Fire and Lightning DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	HourglassHourglassSupport Category: Grants Cooldown Tier: 1 Cooldown Time: 10.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s)Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any damaging skill that you use yourself, causing it to deal significantly more damage but gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.Supported Skills deal 30% more Damage Supported Skills have a Cooldown of 10 secondsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
II	Cold PenetrationCold PenetrationSupport, Cold Category: Cold Penetration Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, making those Hits Penetrate enemy Cold resistance.Supported Skills Penetrate 30% Cold ResistancePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	OverextendOverextendSupport, Attack Category: Overextend Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 115%Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports Attack Skills you use yourself. Supported Skills deal more Damage with Critical Hits, but Critically Hitting an Enemy with them will Daze you for a short time.You are Dazed for 5 seconds on Critically Striking with Supported Skill Supported Skills have 30% more Critical Damage BonusPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
III	Cold ExposureCold ExposureSupport, Cold, Duration Category: Cold Exposure Tier: 4 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to inflict Exposure when it Critically Hits an enemy.Supported Skills inflict Exposure for 8 seconds on Critical Hit with Cold DamagePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	DeliberationDeliberationSupport Category: Deliberation Tier: 3Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports skills that can be used while moving, causing you to move slower while using them, but granting more damage in exchange.Supported Skills deal 20% more Damage 30% more Movement Speed penalty while using Supported SkillsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.	ExecrateExecrateSupport Category: Grants Cooldown Tier: 3 Cooldown Time: 8.00 sec Can Store 1 Use(s)Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any damaging Skill that you use yourself, granting it significantly higher chance to inflict Ailments on hit, but causing it to gain a long cooldown. Cannot support Skills which already have a cooldown.Supported Skills have 100% more chance to inflict Ailments Supported Skills have a Cooldown of 8 secondsPlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.
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Item acquisition

Freezing Salvo has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Skill Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Freezing Salvo has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	Freezing Salvo: Spread has been increased by 25% Now fires an additional arrow at each Ice Fragment near its target location. Now has an Attack Damage of 68-150% at Gem levels 5-20 (previously 78-172%). Now accumulates a missile every 0.75 seconds at all Gem levels (previously 1-0.8 seconds at Gem levels 5-20), and now accumulates up to 10 additional missiles (previously 12). Quality now provides 0-40% more Freeze Buildup (previously Delay between missile accumulation is 0 to -0.2 seconds shorter).
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. The mana cost for all Attacks, Marks and Warcries has been reduced, most notably at higher Gem levels. Freezing Salvo now scales Freeze Buildup with Gem level, up to 107% more at Gem level 20 (previously 50% at all levels). Added Staged tag. [Undocumented]
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.