Cold

Chill is a non-damaging Elemental Ailment that slows action speed. Cold Hits can Chill without a separate application chance, but a calculated Chill below 30% Magnitude is discarded.

Freeze is a non-damaging Cold Ailment that prevents a target from moving or acting. Cold Hits can Freeze directly or add Freeze Buildup, and reaching 100% Buildup makes the target Frozen.

Freeze is an Ailment that causes targets to be unable to move or act, and lasts 4 seconds by default.

Chilled Ground applies Chill to targets standing on it. It lasts 6 seconds by default, but the creating skill or item can specify a different duration or Chill value.

Cold Resistance reduces Cold damage taken. It is tracked independently from the other damage-type Resistances, has a default maximum of 75%, and can have a different uncapped value from the value currently used for mitigation.

Resistances reduce damage of their matching type. Fire, Cold and Lightning Resistances are Elemental Resistances. Chaos Resistance is separate and does not benefit from modifiers that only say Elemental Resistances.

Exposure is a Debuff that lowers one or more of the target's Resistances. It changes the target's actual resistance, can reduce it below zero, and can improve both Hit and non-Hit damage that uses the affected resistance.

Damage Conversion changes part or all of one Hit damage type into another. In Path of Exile 2, the converted portion uses only its new damage type for scaling, mitigation, and default ailment contribution. It no longer keeps the old damage type.

Elemental Ailment Threshold is the defensive comparison value used when Elemental Hits try to apply Ignite, Chill, Freeze, Shock, or Electrocution. A higher threshold makes those ailments harder to apply and reduces Freeze and Electrocution Buildup received.

Damage is classified on three independent axes: source, delivery, and type. A component can come from an Attack, Spell, Thorns, or another source; deal a Hit or damage over time; and deal Physical, Fire, Cold, Lightning, or Chaos damage.

A Hit is an instantaneous damage event. Any damage that is not damage over time is Hit damage, whether it comes from an Attack, a Spell, Thorns, or another effect.

Ailments are damage-type-related debuffs: Bleeding, Ignite, Chill, Freeze, Shock, Electrocute, and Poison. Some deal damage over time, while others impair the target.

Item modifiers are stat lines or rules attached to an item. They include implicit modifiers, explicit prefixes and suffixes, enchantments, corruption enchantments, crafted and Desecrated modifiers, fractured modifiers, and the fixed effects on Unique items.

While active, conjures an icy barrier that gains stages over time. While the barrier has stages, Melee Attacks that hit you will remove a stage to cause a burst of ice that deals Cold Spell damage to the attacker.

While active, gains Energy when you Freeze, Shock, or Ignite enemies, and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum Energy.

While active, gains Energy when you Freeze enemies and triggers socketed spells on reaching maximum Energy.

Call down a mass of ice from the sky, dealing high damage at the targeted location. Targeting close to you will cause you to jump back as you cast. Consumes a Fire Infusion if possible to cause a devastating blast of ice and fire.

Plunge your Spear into the ground to emit a pulse that Consumes Freeze, Shock and Ignite on a number of nearby enemies, Allies and Corpses. The pulse itself deals no damage, but each Ailment Consumed causes an explosion of the corresponding elemental damage type.

Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Elemental Resistances.

Leap backwards, firing an icy arrow which can Chill or Freeze enemies around the location from which you escaped. This arrow will create Ice Fragments on impact.

Fire a single Eye Projectile which does not Hit enemies. The Eye constantly releases damaging shard Projectiles in a spiral as it flies. If the Eye passes over an Elemental Ground Surface or Orb, it will take on that surface's effect causing shards to deal more damage of the corresponding Type.

Perform an icy stab that exploits enemies who are already off balance. Hitting a Parried target Consumes the Debuff to cause an explosion of frost and leave Chilled Ground.

Passively gains Seals over time. Using the skill fires a projectile, and breaks the Seals, Repeating for each of them, and for each additional projectile the skill is given. For each time it Repeats normally, it will also Repeat an additional time targeting a different Ice Fragment in its area of effect if able, Detonating those Ice Fragments immediately.

Launch icy Projectiles in a sweeping arc. Multiple Projectiles can hit the same enemy.

Create a pulsing Orb of frost. Each pulse inflicts Elemental Exposure on nearby enemies. When the Orb's duration ends, it Detonates, dealing Cold damage to surrounding enemies and leaving behind a Cold Infusion.

Create a wall of Ice Crystals which holds back enemies. The Crystals explode if sufficiently damaged, or if pushed hard enough, damaging nearby enemies. Consumes a Lightning Infusion if possible to add another Lightning explosion if destroyed.

Fire a slow-moving Piercing Projectile that is effective at Chilling enemies and explodes on colliding with terrain.

Throw a single Piercing lance that leaves icy fragments in its wake. The fragments Chill nearby enemies. Consumes a Frenzy Charge if possible to cause the glacial fragments created by the first Projectile to explode outwards after a short duration, peppering enemies with shrapnel.

Curse all targets in an area after a short delay, lowering their Cold Resistance.

Conjure a wave of ice in all directions, Knocking Back enemies based on how close they are to you. Casting Ice Nova targeting near a Frostbolt Projectile will cause it to originate from the Frostbolt instead of you. Consumes a Cold Infusion if possible to leave a patch of Chilled Ground.

Fire an icy arrow that sprays a cone of ice shards when it hits a target.

Ready your active Bow or Spear, Empowering your next Repeatable Bow or Projectile Spear Attacks to Convert Physical Damage to Cold Damage and Trigger Ice Fragments on Hit. This Skill's cooldown can be bypassed by expending a Frenzy Charge. Cannot Empower Sustained Skills.

Emit an Aura that boosts the Cold Resistance of you and Allies in your Presence.

Activate to summon Reviving Skeletal Frost Mages that can envelop your Minions in an icy shield on Command.

Consume the elemental energy from a Frozen, Shocked or Ignited enemy, creating an elemental blast that leaves behind an Infusion Remnant. The blast will spread to other enemies affected by the same Ailment, but those blasts cannot spread further. Can also be cast on a Frostbolt to create a larger cold blast.

Channel to charge up your bow before releasing a powerful shot. Releasing with Perfect Timing causes the arrow to explode on impact and Consume Freeze on directly Hitting. Consuming Freeze enhances the explosion.

Launch a spray of sparking Projectiles that travel erratically along the ground until they hit an enemy or expire. Consumes a Cold Infusion if possible to fire many sparks in a circle.