PoE2 skill gem

Ice Shards

Load your Crossbow with a clip of icy bolts that rapidly fire at the ground, leaving a shard of ice at the impact location that arms after a duration. After arming, the ice shards explode when enemies step on them, dealing more damage the longer they have been armed, up to a maximum. Using this Skill again reloads the clip.

Current series

Changed in 0.5

0.5.0
Direct change

Ice Shot: Ice Shards no longer have 25% more Freeze Buildup.

Full patch history

Effects

12 effects

Ammunition

  • +16 Bolts loaded per clip

Projectile

  • Rapidly fire icy bolts at the ground, leaving a shard of ice at the impact location that arms after a duration. After arming, the ice shards explode when enemies step on them, dealing more damage the longer they have been armed, up to a maximum. Can fire a limited number of bolts before needing to reload.
  • Cost: 0 Mana
  • Attack Speed: 550% of base
  • Attack Damage: (8-29)% of base
  • Projectile Speed: 29.25 metres per Second
  • Converts 60% of Physical damage to Cold damage
  • Cannot Chain

Shard

Requirements and restrictions

2 requirement groups
Player requirementsLevel (1-90), (4-86) Str, (4-86) Dex
Weapon or skill requirementCrossbows
Source requirement text

Requires: Level (1-90), (4-86) Str, (4-86) Dex

Requires: Crossbows

Gem level progression

40 levels
Ice Shards levels 1 to 20
LevelRequires LevelStrDexManaBase DamageChills Enemies as though dealing 200% more damage
104412100%, 100%, 100%, 8%, 20%200
237714100%, 100%, 100%, 9%, 22%210
369916100%, 100%, 100%, 10%, 24%220
410131319100%, 100%, 100%, 11%, 27%230
514171721100%, 100%, 100%, 11%, 29%240
618202024100%, 100%, 100%, 12%, 31%250
722242426100%, 100%, 100%, 13%, 34%260
826282829100%, 100%, 100%, 14%, 36%270
931323233100%, 100%, 100%, 15%, 39%280
1036373736100%, 100%, 100%, 16%, 41%290
1141414140100%, 100%, 100%, 17%, 44%300
1246464643100%, 100%, 100%, 18%, 47%310
1352515148100%, 100%, 100%, 19%, 50%320
1458575752100%, 100%, 100%, 20%, 53%330
1564626257100%, 100%, 100%, 21%, 57%340
1666646462100%, 100%, 100%, 23%, 61%350
1772707067100%, 100%, 100%, 24%, 66%360
1878757573100%, 100%, 100%, 25%, 70%370
1984808079100%, 100%, 100%, 27%, 76%380
2090868685100%, 100%, 100%, 29%, 82%390
Beyond level 20, 20 levels
Ice Shards levels beyond 20
LevelRequires LevelStrDexManaBase DamageChills Enemies as though dealing 200% more damage
21Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable92100%, 100%, 100%, 31%, 88%400
22Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable99100%, 100%, 100%, 33%, 95%410
23Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable107100%, 100%, 100%, 35%, 102%420
24Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable115100%, 100%, 100%, 38%, 110%430
25Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable123100%, 100%, 100%, 40%, 118%440
26Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable132100%, 100%, 100%, 43%, 128%450
27Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable142100%, 100%, 100%, 46%, 138%460
28Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable152100%, 100%, 100%, 49%, 148%470
29Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable163100%, 100%, 100%, 52%, 160%480
30Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable174100%, 100%, 100%, 55%, 172%490
31Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable187100%, 100%, 100%, 59%, 185%500
32Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable199100%, 100%, 100%, 63%, 200%510
33Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable213100%, 100%, 100%, 67%, 215%520
34Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable227100%, 100%, 100%, 71%, 232%530
35Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable243100%, 100%, 100%, 76%, 249%540
36Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable259100%, 100%, 100%, 81%, 269%550
37Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable276100%, 100%, 100%, 87%, 290%560
38Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable294100%, 100%, 100%, 93%, 312%570
39Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable313100%, 100%, 100%, 99%, 336%580
40Not applicableNot applicableNot applicable333100%, 100%, 100%, 105%, 362%590

Quality effects

2 effects

Shard 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.

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Compatibility rules

Active Type: CrossbowAmmoSkill, ReservesManually, Attack, UsableWhileMoving

Acquisition

1 sources
  • Uncut Skill Gem: Uncut Skill Gem Tier 5

How to engrave this skill

1 category
Crossbow, tier 5

This skill becomes available when engraving an Uncut Skill Gem of level 5 or higher. The resulting skill uses the selected Uncut Skill Gem's level.

Open Crossbow

Vaal Orb outcomes

4 outcomes / 0 enchantments

Vaal Orb can corrupt Ice Shards. 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

8 changes
0.2.1
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Ice Shards could use incorrect values for determining critical hits, potentially resulting in long periods of the same outcome.

0.5.0
Direct change

Ice Shot: Ice Shards no longer have 25% more Freeze Buildup.

0.4.0
Direct change

Ice Shards: Skill description now correctly states it Cannot Chain and Projectiles target the ground. Shards now have 400% more damage 2 seconds after arming (previously 300% more damage 3 seconds after arming). Shard Explosion radius is now 2.5 metres (previously 1.4).

0.3.0
Direct change

Ice Shards: Shards now deal 29-82% of Attack Damage at Gem levels 5-20 (previously 12-33%), arm after 1.5 seconds, and now deal up to 300% more Damage after arming. They now deal 80% less damage in the first 0.5 seconds of their duration. They no longer deal 700% more damage after 0.5 seconds. Projectile now deals 11-29% of Attack Damage at Gem levels 5-20 (previously 12-33%). Now has an arming time before which it will not explode, even if shot directly under an enemy. Quality now provides Shards Chills Enemies as though dealing 0-100% more Damage, instead of Shards that have existed for at least 0.5 seconds deal 0-200% more Damage.

0.3.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Ice Shards' damage bonus after 0.5 seconds was applying at half the intended value. The description for Ice Shards has also been updated to clarify that the damage bonus after 0.5 seconds is gained smoothly over time rather than being binary.

0.2.0
Direct change

Ice Shards Explosion radius is now 1.4 metres (previously 1.2 metres), has a Maximum of 16 active shards (previously 12), and now has 16 Bolts loaded per clip (previously 12). Shards that have existed for at least 0.5 seconds (previously 1 second) now deal 700% more Damage (previously 900%).

0.2.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug that could cause Shattering Palm's ice shards to occasionally fail to explode.

0.2.0
Direct change

Fixed a bug where Shattering Palm ice shards could fail to deal damage when weapon swapping.