Freezing Shards

Freezing ShardsBarrageable, Spell, Projectile, Cold
Level: (1-20)
Cost: 0 Mana
Cast Time: 1.20 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Launch icy Projectiles in a sweeping arc. Multiple Projectiles can hit the same enemy.Deals (2-54) to (3-81) Cold Damage
100% more Freeze Buildup
Fires 5 Projectiles

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Fires (0.05-1) ProjectilesSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.

Acquisition
Drop disabled
Granted as an inherent weapon skill from a Gelid StaffGelid StaffStaffRequires Level 2Grants Skill: Level (1-20) Freezing Shards.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemFreezingShards

Freezing Shards is a cold spell skill that shoots projectiles is an arc.

It is granted as an inherent weapon skill from a Gelid StaffGelid StaffStaffRequires Level 2Grants Skill: Level (1-20) Freezing Shards.

Gem level progression

Level			Cold Damage
1	0	0	2 to 3
2	3	9	3 to 4
3	6	14	4 to 5
4	10	21	5 to 7
5	14	28	6 to 9
6	18	35	7 to 11
7	22	41	9 to 14
8	26	48	11 to 17
9	31	57	14 to 20
10	36	65	16 to 24
11	41	74	19 to 29
12	46	82	22 to 34
13	52	92	26 to 39
14	58	103	30 to 44
15	64	113	34 to 51
16	66	116	38 to 58
17	72	126	44 to 66
18	78	137	50 to 74
19	84	147	56 to 84
20	90	157	64 to 96

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		Frost NexusFrost NexusSupport, AoE, Cold Category: Frost Nexus Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports any skill that Hits enemies, causing it to create patches of Chilled Ground around Frozen enemies.Supported Skills create Chilled Ground for 8 seconds when they Freeze an EnemyPlace 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	Coming Soon	Coming Soon	EmbitterEmbitterSupport, Cold Category: Embitter Tier: 2 Cost & Reservation Multiplier: 120%Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Skills which can Damage Enemies with Hits, causing all sources of Damage Gained to instead be treated as Damage Gained as extra Cold for Supported Skills.If Supported Skills would gain extra Damage of any Type other than Cold, they gain extra Cold Damage insteadPlace 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	Charm BountyCharm BountySupport Category: BountySupport Requirements: +5 DexSupports any Skill that Hits Enemies, causing Enemies it kills to grant more Charm charges.Enemies killed by Hits from Supported Skills grant 100% more Charm chargesPlace 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.	Coming Soon	Coming Soon
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Item acquisition

Freezing Shards is drop disabled.

Alternate skill effects

Freezing Shards has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	The base damage scaling of all player spell and secondary damage skills has been tweaked to scale better in the late game. The following skills found as inherent skills on Wands and Staves now deal approximately 12% more Damage from skill level 11 onwards: Bone Blast, Chaos Bolt, Decompose, Firebolt, Freezing Shards, Lightning Bolt, Power Siphon, and Solar Orb.
0.2.1	Added "Barrageable" gem tag.[Undocumented]
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. Freezing Shards now fires 5 projectiles (previously 7), and now has 100% more Freeze Buildup (previously 50%).
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.