PoE2 skill gem

Frost Bomb

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.

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.

Effects

9 effects
  • CooldownTime: 6000
  • Detonation Time is 4 seconds
  • Exposure duration is 8 seconds
  • Initially applies 20% Elemental Exposure and 2% Exposure per pulse, up to a maximum of 50%
  • Chills Enemies as though dealing 300% more damage
  • Limit 1 Frost Bomb
  • Deals (7-238) to (11-358) Cold Damage
  • Pulse and explosion radius are (2.4-3.1) metres
  • Cannot apply Exposure to enemies of level higher than (20-100)

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
Frost Bomb levels 1 to 20
LevelRequires LevelIntManaBase DamageDeals 7 to 11 Cold DamagePulse and explosion radius are 2.4 metresCannot apply Exposure to enemies of level higher than 20
1049100%, 100%, 100%7, 112.420
23911100%, 100%, 100%10, 152.423
361413100%, 100%, 100%14, 212.525
4102115100%, 100%, 100%18, 272.529
5142818100%, 100%, 100%23, 342.532
6183520100%, 100%, 100%28, 422.636
7224123100%, 100%, 100%34, 512.639
8264826100%, 100%, 100%41, 612.743
9315730100%, 100%, 100%48, 732.747
10366534100%, 100%, 100%57, 862.752
11417438100%, 100%, 100%67, 1002.856
12468242100%, 100%, 100%78, 1172.861
13529248100%, 100%, 100%90, 1352.866
145810353100%, 100%, 100%104, 1562.972
156411359100%, 100%, 100%120, 1802.974
166611666100%, 100%, 100%138, 208376
177212673100%, 100%, 100%159, 238378
187813781100%, 100%, 100%182, 2733Not applicable
198414789100%, 100%, 100%208, 3133.1Not applicable
209015799100%, 100%, 100%238, 3583.1Not applicable
Beyond level 20, 20 levels
Frost Bomb levels beyond 20
LevelRequires LevelIntManaBase DamageDeals 7 to 11 Cold DamagePulse and explosion radius are 2.4 metresCannot apply Exposure to enemies of level higher than 20
21Not applicableNot applicable109100%, 100%, 100%273, 4093.1Not applicable
22Not applicableNot applicable120100%, 100%, 100%311, 4673.2Not applicable
23Not applicableNot applicable132100%, 100%, 100%356, 5343.2Not applicable
24Not applicableNot applicable146100%, 100%, 100%406, 6093.2Not applicable
25Not applicableNot applicable160100%, 100%, 100%464, 6963.3Not applicable
26Not applicableNot applicable175100%, 100%, 100%530, 7953.3Not applicable
27Not applicableNot applicable192100%, 100%, 100%606, 9093.4Not applicable
28Not applicableNot applicable211100%, 100%, 100%692, 10383.4Not applicable
29Not applicableNot applicable231100%, 100%, 100%792, 11883.4Not applicable
30Not applicableNot applicable252100%, 100%, 100%906, 13593.5Not applicable
31Not applicableNot applicable276100%, 100%, 100%1037, 15563.5Not applicable
32Not applicableNot applicable301100%, 100%, 100%1188, 17833.5Not applicable
33Not applicableNot applicable329100%, 100%, 100%1363, 20443.5Not applicable
34Not applicableNot applicable359100%, 100%, 100%1564, 23463.5Not applicable
35Not applicableNot applicable392100%, 100%, 100%1796, 26953.6Not applicable
36Not applicableNot applicable427100%, 100%, 100%2065, 30983.6Not applicable
37Not applicableNot applicable465100%, 100%, 100%2377, 35663.6Not applicable
38Not applicableNot applicable506100%, 100%, 100%2739, 41083.6Not applicable
39Not applicableNot applicable551100%, 100%, 100%3159, 47393.6Not applicable
40Not applicableNot applicable599100%, 100%, 100%3648, 54723.7Not applicable

Quality effects

2 effects

Frost Bomb 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.

  • Limit 3 Frost BombQuality scaling: Limit (0-3) Frost Bomb

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Compatibility rules

Active Type: Spell, Area, Duration, Cold, Damage, Multicastable, Totemable, Trappable, Mineable, Triggerable, Cascadable, AreaSpell, Cooldown, Orb, Invokable, UsableWhileMoving, GeneratesInfusion, GeneratesRemnants, DetonatesAfterTime, Limit

Elemental Infusions

This gem has a direct interaction with the Elemental Infusion mechanic.

1 interaction
CreatesCold

Creates: 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.

Open Elemental Infusion rules and connected skills

Acquisition

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

How to engrave this skill

1 category
Elemental, tier 1

This skill becomes available when engraving an Uncut Skill Gem of level 1 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 Frost Bomb. 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%.
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Patch history

5 changes
0.3.0b
Direct change

Fixed a bug where increases to Frost Bomb limit was not functioning correctly with Spell Cascade Support.

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.

0.2.0e
Direct change

Frost Bomb now has an Exposure duration of 8 seconds (previously 5).

0.3.0
Direct change

Frost Bomb: Now deals 7-11 Cold Damage at Gem level 1 (previously 16-23), scaling up to 238-538 at Gem level 20 (previously 467-701). Now has a Cooldown of 6 seconds (previously 3.5), and now has a 4 second Detonation Time instead of a 3 second Duration before Exploding. Now Chills Enemies as though dealing 300% more Damage, and now applies Elemental Exposure instead of Cold Exposure. It initially applies 20% Elemental Exposure, and 2% per Pulse, up to a maximum of 50%. Quality now provides +0-10% more Maximum Elemental Exposure applied (previously 0-20% increased Cold Exposure Effect). Now has a limit of 1.

0.2.0
Direct change

Frost Bomb now has Pulse and Explosion radius is 2-2.7 metres at Gem levels 1-20 (previously 1.7-2.4).