Unique Gloves

Grip of Winter

Grip of Winter adds Cold damage to Attacks while increasing Freeze Buildup and the Magnitude of inflicted Chills. It concentrates several Cold ailment bonuses in one pair of gloves.

0.5.4d

Current data

Catalog version 0.5.4d

No direct 0.5 patch change is linked to this page. The displayed values are current for catalog version 0.5.4d.

Item effects

5 lines

01(30-50)% increased Evasion Rating

02Adds (3-5) to (6-8) Cold damage to Attacks

03+(20-30)% to Cold Resistance

04(40-50)% increased Freeze Buildup

05(20-30)% increased Magnitude of Chill you inflict

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Grip of Winter is not listed among the 48 corrupted Vaal Uniques with an item-specific Cultivation modifier pool. Using a Vaal Cultivation Orb follows the separate rule for other Uniques: it replaces the item with a random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class.

Target class: Gloves
Result: Random Corrupted Unique of the same Item Class
Exact pool: Not published as an exhaustive list

The exact random pool depends on item class and current eligibility rules, so it is not represented as a fixed item-to-item outcome.

Compare the Vaal Unique modifier pools and the other Unique rule

How to get Grip of Winter

World drop

Grip of Winter can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.

Drop: Enabled
Restriction: None
Orb of Chance: Eligible

Runeforging input

This item is consumed by 1 exact Runeforging recipe.

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 9 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Grip of Winter. One applicable outcome is selected, and the item normally cannot be modified again by ordinary crafting.

No change.

Applies a modifier magnitude multiplier of 0.78x to 1.22x (in 0.01 increments) before rounding to explicit modifiers. Applies before quality effects.

The resulting values are rounded to the nearest whole number, rather than always being rounded down like most decimal values in the game. However, testing suggests the game may use truncation with a +0.5 shift instead of standard rounding. This appears to bias internally negative stats (like 10% Reduced Dexterity) toward zero, preventing some expected values from appearing while making others more common. A formula of trunc(value + 0.5) may explain this behavior.

Adds a special Vaal enchantment to the item.

Adds an item socket to weapons (including sceptres) and armour, ignoring socket limits.

For jewellery, no change. (This outcome is not removed by Omen of Corruption.)
The item cannot have more sockets than the amount of space the item takes up.
If the item is socketed with Cadigan's Epiphany, the item cannot gain an augment socket via corruption.

Possible corruption enchantments9

(15-25)% increased Evasion RatingLocal / Level 1

(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1

+1 to Melee Skill GemsGlobal / Level 1

+1 to Maximum Frenzy ChargesGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Weapon Swap SpeedGlobal / Level 1

Break (10-15)% increased ArmourGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Fire ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Cold ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

Damage Penetrates (10-15)% Lightning ResistanceGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

1 interactions

Cold-ailment interaction

(20-30)% increased Magnitude of Chill you inflict.

Related mechanics

MechanicCold

Cold Damage is one of the five damage types. Cold Hits can Chill and build Freeze, but Chill Magnitude, Freeze Buildup, and Freeze Duration are separate values, and Cold damage from Hits cannot build Heavy Stun.

Patch history

1 changes

0.1.1

Direct change

The Grip of Winter Unique Gloves now provides 20-30% to Cold Resistance.

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