Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality: (1-20)% more Magnitude of Chill inflictedSkills can be managed in the Skills Panel.
Acquisition Drop disabled Granted as an inherent weapon skill from a The Whispering IceThe 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: Skill Gem Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gem/SkillGemHeartOfIce
Heart of Ice is a persistentbuffskill exclusively granted by The Whispering IceThe 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.
The level of the skill is tied to The Whispering IceThe 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. Heart of Ice has four gem sockets at levels 16-19 and five at level 20. The level can further be increased by Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Cold 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. and other sources of skill levels, but this does not grant additional sockets. Level modifiers include the modifier +(2-4) to Level of all Cold Spell Skills present on the staff. Quality grants more chill magnitude inflicted and is based on quality on The Whispering IceThe 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 but can be granted by other sources.
Chilling Presence
The default presence radius is 4 metres. The as though wording causes chill to be calculated based on expected damage, which can be increased as normal through spell and cold damage modifiers as well as chill and slow magnitude modifiers. However, Heart of Ice deals no damage. It also cannot apply exposure, as it does not hit. Enemies are chilled immediately upon entering the character's presence, but chill is not reapplied until about one second later if it is consumed by payoff skills like 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.. Targets which leave the character's presence are immediately unchilled. If Heavy Snows is allocated, Heart of Ice will still only apply one chill to each target in range.
Supports
Heart of Ice can be supported by all persistentbuffsupport gems. The only two support gems that have actual effects on the skill are Slow PotencySlow PotencySupport, Spell Category: Encumbrance Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any skill, causing inflicted Slows to be more powerful.Debuffs inflicted with Supported Skills have 15% increased Slow MagnitudePlace 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. and Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Cold 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.. Unusually, it can also be supported by some gems that have no actual effect by virtue of the skill dealing no damage because of the as though wording. These include Armour Demolisher IArmour Demolisher ISupport, Spell Category: Armour Demolisher Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 StrSupports any skill, causing Armour Break it inflicts to be stronger.Supported Skills Break 50% more ArmourPlace 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., Rapid Casting IRapid Casting ISupport, Spell Category: Rapid Casting Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Spells, causing them to cast faster.Supported Skills have 15% increased Cast SpeedPlace 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., and Potent ExposurePotent ExposureSupport, Spell Category: Potent Exposure Tier: 2Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Skills which apply Exposure to Enemies, increasing the effect of applied Exposure.Exposure applied by Supported Skills has 20% increased effectPlace 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..
Gem level progression
Level
Cold Damage
1
0
0
26 to 39
2
3
9
35 to 53
3
6
14
48 to 72
4
10
21
63 to 94
5
14
28
79 to 119
6
18
35
98 to 148
7
22
41
120 to 180
8
26
48
144 to 217
9
31
57
172 to 258
10
36
65
203 to 305
11
41
74
239 to 359
12
46
82
280 to 420
13
52
92
326 to 489
14
58
103
378 to 567
15
64
113
438 to 657
16
66
116
506 to 759
17
72
126
583 to 875
18
78
137
672 to 1007
19
84
147
773 to 1159
20
90
157
888 to 1332
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
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Slow PotencySlow PotencySupport, Spell Category: Encumbrance Tier: 1Support Requirements: +5 DexSupports any skill, causing inflicted Slows to be more powerful.Debuffs inflicted with Supported Skills have 15% increased Slow MagnitudePlace 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.
Vitality IVitality ISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Vitality Tier: 1 Additional Reservation: 20 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 StrSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.Regenerate 1% of maximum Life per second while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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
Herbalism IHerbalism ISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Herbalism Tier: 2 Additional Reservation: 15 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 StrSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to gain increased Life recovery from Flasks while the Skill is active.30% Increased Recovery from Life Flasks while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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.
Mysticism IMysticism ISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Mysticism Tier: 2 Additional Reservation: 15 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 IntSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to deal increased Spell Damage while on full Energy Shield while the Supported Skill is active.Deal 30% increased Spell Damage while on full Energy Shield while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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
Cannibalism ICannibalism ISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Cannibalism Tier: 3 Additional Reservation: 15 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 StrSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to recover Life on kill while the Skill is active.2% of maximum Life recovered on Kill while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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.
Warm BloodedWarm BloodedSupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Warm Blooded Tier: 3 Additional Reservation: 15 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 DexSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing Freeze applied to you to last for a shorter duration while the Supported Skill is active.50% less Freeze duration on you while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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.
IV
Clarity IIClarity IISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Clarity Tier: 4 Additional Reservation: 20 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 IntSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to gain increased Mana Regeneration while the Skill is active.50% Increased Mana Regeneration Rate while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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.
Vitality IIVitality IISupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Vitality Tier: 4 Additional Reservation: 40 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 StrSupports PersistentBuff Skills, causing you to gain Life Regeneration while the Skill is active.Regenerate 2% of maximum Life per second while a Supported Skill is activePlace 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.
V
Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold Category: Mastery Tier: 5Support Requirements: +5 IntSupports Cold skills, granting them an additional level. Does not support skills which do not have levels.+1 to Level of Supported Cold 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.
Heart of Ice, granted by The Whispering IceThe 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 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).
The Whispering IceThe Whispering Ice
Heart of Ice
Icestorm+(2-4) to Level of all Cold Spell Skills
.Metadata
Cold MasteryCold MasterySupport, Cold
and other sources of skill levels, but this does not grant additional sockets. Level modifiers include the modifier +(2-4) to Level of all Cold Spell Skills present on the staff. Quality grants more chill magnitude inflicted and is based on quality on 
IcestormIcestormBarrageable, Spell, AoE, Sustained, Cold, Duration, Payoff
. Targets which leave the character's presence are immediately unchilled. If Heavy Snows is allocated, Heart of Ice will still only apply one chill to each target in range.
Slow PotencySlow PotencySupport, Spell
and 
Armour Demolisher IArmour Demolisher ISupport, Spell
, 
Rapid Casting IRapid Casting ISupport, Spell
, and 
Potent ExposurePotent ExposureSupport, Spell
.
Vitality IVitality ISupport, Buff, Persistent
Herbalism IHerbalism ISupport, Buff, Persistent
Mysticism IMysticism ISupport, Buff, Persistent
Cannibalism ICannibalism ISupport, Buff, Persistent
Warm BloodedWarm BloodedSupport, Buff, Persistent
Clarity IIClarity IISupport, Buff, Persistent
