The Whispering Ice

The Whispering Ice
Permafrost StaffStaffRequires Level 75Grants Skill: Level (16-20) Heart of Ice
Grants Skill: Level (16-20) Icestorm+(2-4) to Level of all Cold Spell Skills
(10-20)% reduced Cast Speed
(5-15)% increased Intelligence
4% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence
Inflict Elemental Exposure on Hit, lowering Total Elemental Resistance by (20-30)%"From what beast you derived, we can only fathom.
Aye, you of living ice, rotting gill, and untold nightmare!
We Brinerot return ye to the sea."
- Weylam Roth

Metadata
Item class: Staff

The Whispering Ice is a unique Permafrost StaffPermafrost StaffStaffRequires Level 75Grants Skill: Level (17-20) Heart of Ice. The required level and attributes depend on the level of granted skill.

Mechanics

The Whispering Ice grants two exclusive skills. See Heart of IceHeart of IceSpell, Buff, Persistent, Aura, Cold
Level: (1-20)
Cast Time: Instant
Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Chills all enemies in your Presence.Chills enemies in your Presence as though dealing (26-888) to (39-1332) Cold damage

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(1-20)% more Magnitude of Chill inflictedSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel. and IcestormIcestormBarrageable, Spell, AoE, Sustained, Cold, Duration, Payoff
Level: (1-20)
Cast Time: 1.20 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Conjure a hail of icy bolts over the targeted area. Chill and Freeze on enemies in front of you are Consumed to fuel the Icestorm by creating improved bolts.Deals (3-87) to (5-131) Cold Damage
Cold Damage from Hits does not contribute to Chill Magnitude
Cannot Freeze
Impact radius is 0.9 metres
Storm radius is 2.6 metres
Storm duration is 6 seconds
One impact every 0.15 seconds
Improves 1 Bolt per Chill Consumed
Improves 1 Bolt per Power of enemies from which Freeze is Consumed
Limit 3 Icestorms

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.01-0.2) metres to impact radiusSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel. for details on their mechanics. The staff also raises the level of cold spells at the cost of cast speed. The modifiers 5-15% increased Intelligence and 4% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence promote intelligence stacking and scaling. The modifier Inflict Elemental Exposure on Hit, lowering Total Elemental Resistance by (20-30)% provides an automatic way to apply exposure with any hit.

Item acquisition

The Whispering Ice can drop anywhere.

Trivia

Unlike most other uniques with original Path of Exile versions, this item has a completely different flavour text. The original flavour text is: "Guard your darkest thoughts well, for they are the cracks through which the Nightmare crawls."

Version history

Version	Changes
0.3.0	The Whispering Ice Unique Staff's Inflict Cold Exposure on Hit, lowering total Cold Resistance by 20-30% modifier now applies Elemental Exposure instead. Heart of IceHeart of IceSpell, Buff, Persistent, Aura, Cold Level: (1-20) Cast Time: Instant Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Chills all enemies in your Presence.Chills enemies in your Presence as though dealing (26-888) to (39-1332) Cold damage Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% more Magnitude of Chill inflictedSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel., granted by the Whispering Ice Unique Staff: Now Chills enemies in your Presence as though dealing 26-888 to 39-1332 Cold Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 12-378 to 18-567). Items with inherent Skills can now rarely drop with Skill levels up to level 20 in high-tier Maps.
0.2.1	Introduced to the game.