PoE2 skill gem

Eye of Winter

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.

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0
Direct change

Eye of Winter now describes the number of shard projectiles it fires per second while in flight, and this number can now be modified by adding additional projectiles.

Full patch history

Effects

7 effects

Requirements and restrictions

1 requirement groups
Player requirementsLevel (1-90), (4-157) Int
Source requirement text

Requires: Level (1-90), (4-157) Int

Gem level progression

40 levels
Eye of Winter levels 1 to 20
LevelRequires LevelIntManaBase DamageDeals 1 to 2 Cold Damage
10419100%, 100%, 100%1, 2
23922100%, 100%, 100%2, 3
361426100%, 100%, 100%3, 4
4102130100%, 100%, 100%3, 5
5142835100%, 100%, 100%4, 6
6183540100%, 100%, 100%5, 8
7224146100%, 100%, 100%6, 9
8264852100%, 100%, 100%8, 11
9315759100%, 100%, 100%9, 13
10366566100%, 100%, 100%10, 16
11417475100%, 100%, 100%12, 18
12468284100%, 100%, 100%14, 21
13529294100%, 100%, 100%16, 24
1458103105100%, 100%, 100%18, 28
1564113117100%, 100%, 100%21, 31
1666116130100%, 100%, 100%24, 36
1772126144100%, 100%, 100%27, 41
1878137159100%, 100%, 100%31, 46
1984147176100%, 100%, 100%35, 52
2090157195100%, 100%, 100%40, 59
Beyond level 20, 20 levels
Eye of Winter levels beyond 20
LevelRequires LevelIntManaBase DamageDeals 1 to 2 Cold Damage
21Not applicableNot applicable215100%, 100%, 100%45, 67
22Not applicableNot applicable236100%, 100%, 100%51, 76
23Not applicableNot applicable260100%, 100%, 100%57, 86
24Not applicableNot applicable286100%, 100%, 100%64, 97
25Not applicableNot applicable314100%, 100%, 100%73, 109
26Not applicableNot applicable345100%, 100%, 100%82, 123
27Not applicableNot applicable378100%, 100%, 100%92, 139
28Not applicableNot applicable414100%, 100%, 100%104, 156
29Not applicableNot applicable453100%, 100%, 100%118, 176
30Not applicableNot applicable496100%, 100%, 100%133, 199
31Not applicableNot applicable542100%, 100%, 100%150, 225
32Not applicableNot applicable592100%, 100%, 100%169, 254
33Not applicableNot applicable646100%, 100%, 100%191, 287
34Not applicableNot applicable705100%, 100%, 100%216, 324
35Not applicableNot applicable769100%, 100%, 100%244, 366
36Not applicableNot applicable838100%, 100%, 100%276, 414
37Not applicableNot applicable913100%, 100%, 100%313, 469
38Not applicableNot applicable994100%, 100%, 100%354, 532
39Not applicableNot applicable1081100%, 100%, 100%402, 603
40Not applicableNot applicable1176100%, 100%, 100%456, 684

Quality effects

2 effects

Eye of Winter standard quality

Advanced Thaumaturgy

This is the additional quality effect granted while the Gemling Legionnaire passive is allocated. The main value below is shown at 20% gem quality. Compare all gem bonuses.

  • Projectiles have 50% chance to Return to youQuality scaling: Projectiles have (0-50)% chance to Return to you

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Compatibility rules

Active Type: Spell, Damage, Projectile, ProjectileSpiral, Damage, SingleMainProjectile, Cold, Totemable, Mineable, Trappable, Triggerable, UsableWhileMoving, Cooldown, InteractsWithElementalGround

Acquisition

1 sources
  • Uncut Skill Gem: Uncut Skill Gem Tier 13

How to engrave this skill

1 category
Elemental, tier 13

This skill becomes available when engraving an Uncut Skill Gem of level 13 or higher. The resulting skill uses the selected Uncut Skill Gem's level.

Open Elemental

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 0 enchantments

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

01
No change.
02
Permanently add or subtract one gem level. This is retained when upgrading the gem level using an uncut gem. Max level gems can exceed their normal maximum this way, but cannot go below Level 1.
03
Add or remove a socket.
04
±10% to Quality, up to 23%.
View every corruption outcome and enchantment

Patch history

6 changes
0.2.0e
Direct change

Eye of Winter now gains bonus elemental damage when passing through other elemental orbs like Solar Orb, Orb of Storms or Frost Bomb.

0.5.0
Direct change

Eye of Winter now describes the number of shard projectiles it fires per second while in flight, and this number can now be modified by adding additional projectiles.

0.4.0
Direct change

Eye of Winter: Eye Projectile now travels a much longer distance. Eye Projectile now has 25% less base projectile speed. Cooldown is now 10 seconds (previously 15).

0.3.0
Direct change

Eye of Winter: When passing through an allied Flame Wall, the Eye itself and now all the shards it subsequently released will receive the Flame Wall's added Fire Damage. Shard Projectiles now travel 25% further. Eye Projectiles no longer releases a burst of shards at the end of its flight. The frequency the Eye Projectiles fires projectiles has been increased by roughly 35%. Each use of the Skill now deals 900% more Damage with its first Hit against each enemy. Now has a cast time of 1.4 seconds (previously 1.1), a Mana cost of 94-195 at Gem levels 13-20 (previously 54-128), and a 15 second Cooldown. Now Gains 100% of damage as damage of the corresponding Type when passing over an Elemental Ground Effect or Orb (previously 75%), and now deals 16-40 to 24-59 Cold Damage at Gem levels 13-20 (previously 7-17 to 10-25).

0.2.0
Direct change

Eye of Winter now gains 75% of damage as damage of the corresponding Type when passing over an Elemental Ground Effect (previously 50%). The Skill also no longer incorrectly states the Projectile applies the passed over-ground effect to nearby Enemies.

0.2.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Eye of Winter passing over multiple ailment ground effects only got the extra damage bonus from the most recent one, rather than all of them.

Monster skill variants

1 monsters

These monsters use source skill records whose exact name, external key, or reviewed implementation ID resolves to Eye of Winter. Monster-specific values remain on each monster page.

Gelid Zealot

Vaal Zealot Cold Eye Of Winter