Unique One Hand Maces

Frostbreath

Frostbreath is a unique Slim Mace focused on Frozen enemies and Freeze buildup. Its defining modifiers are “Culling Strike against Frozen Enemies” and “All Damage from Hits with this Weapon Contributes to Freeze Buildup”.

0.5.4d

Current data

Catalog version 0.5.4d

No direct 0.5 patch change is linked to this page. Displayed catalog fields come from the 0.5.4d source snapshot.

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Item effects

5 lines

01Adds (8-12) to (16-20) Physical Damage

02Adds (8-12) to (16-20) Cold Damage

03+5% to Critical Hit Chance

04All Damage from Hits with this Weapon Contributes to Freeze Buildup

05Culling Strike against Frozen Enemies

Vaal Cultivation Orb

Other Unique rule

Frostbreath 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: One Hand Maces
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 Frostbreath

World drop

Frostbreath 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 / 18 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Frostbreath. 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 enchantments18

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

Gain 1 Rage on HitGlobal / Level 1

(20-30)% increased Elemental Damage with AttacksGlobal / Level 1

(40-50)% increased Elemental Damage with AttacksGlobal / Level 1

(10-15)% chance to cause Bleeding on HitGlobal / Level 1

Causes (20-30)% increased Stun BuildupGlobal / Level 1

(6-8)% increased Attack SpeedGlobal / Level 1

(10-20)% increased RangeGlobal / Level 1

Adds (9-14) to (15-22) Fire DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (8-12) to (13-19) Cold DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (1-2) to (29-43) Lightning DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (7-11) to (12-18) Chaos DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (13-20) to (21-31) Fire DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (11-17) to (18-26) Cold DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (1-3) to (41-61) Lightning DamageLocal / Level 1

Adds (10-16) to (17-25) Chaos DamageLocal / Level 1

+(10-15)% to Critical Damage BonusGlobal / Level 1

(15-25)% increased Physical DamageGlobal / Level 1

View every corruption outcome and enchantment

How it works

2 interactions

Frozen enemies

Culling Strike against Frozen Enemies

Freeze buildup

All Damage from Hits with this Weapon Contributes to Freeze Buildup

Related mechanics

MechanicContributes

Damage contribution decides which parts of a Hit are counted for one named Ailment chance, buildup, or Magnitude calculation. It does not convert the Hit or change the damage types it deals.

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 Frostbreath Unique Mace now has 8-12 to 16-20 added Physical Damage and Cold Damage (both previously 4-6 to 8-12). It now also provides +5% to Critical Hit Chance.

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