World drop
The Whispering Ice can drop anywhere. It can be chanced.
- Drop
- Enabled
- Restriction
- None
- Orb of Chance
- Eligible
Unique Staves
The Whispering Ice
The Whispering Ice is a unique Permafrost Staff focused on Exposure. Its defining modifiers are “Inflict Elemental Exposure on Hit, lowering Total Elemental Resistances by (50-60)%” and “2% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence”.0.5.4d
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.
Item effects
7 linesSkillGrants Skill: Heart of Ice
SkillGrants Skill: Icestorm
02(10-20)% reduced Cast Speed
03(5-10)% increased Intelligence
Vaal Cultivation Orb
Other Unique ruleThe Whispering Ice 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
- Staves
- 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 ruleHow to get The Whispering Ice
World drop
Vaal Orb outcomes
4 outcomes / 14 enchantmentsVaal Orb can corrupt The Whispering Ice. 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 enchantments14
(10-20)% reduced Attribute RequirementsLocal / Level 1
(10-15)% increased Cast SpeedGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased Critical Hit Chance for SpellsGlobal / Level 1
Gain (20-25) Life per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1
Gain (10-15) Mana per Enemy KilledGlobal / Level 1
(40-50)% increased Spell DamageLocal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased chance to IgniteGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased Freeze BuildupGlobal / Level 1
(20-30)% increased chance to ShockGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Physical Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Fire Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Cold Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Lightning Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
+1 to Level of all Chaos Spell SkillsGlobal / Level 1
How it works
2 interactionsExposure
Inflict Elemental Exposure on Hit, lowering Total Elemental Resistances by (50-60)%
Conditional effect
2% increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence
Related mechanics
1
Patch history
7 changesDirect change
The Whispering Ice now has "+5-7 to Level of All Cold Spell Skills" (previously +2-4).
Direct change
The Whispering Ice now has "5-10% Increased Intelligence" (previously 5-15%).
Direct change
The Whispering Ice now has "2% Increased Spell Damage per 10 Intelligence" (previously 4%).
Direct change
The Whispering Ice now has "Inflicts Elemental Exposure on hit, Lowering Total Elemental Resistances By 50-60%" (previously 20-30%).
Direct change
NEW: Heart of Ice, granted by the Whispering Ice Unique Staff: Now Chills enemies in your Presence as though dealing 26-888 to 39-1332 Cold Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 12-378 to 18-567).
Direct change
The Whispering Ice Unique Staff's Inflict Cold Exposure on Hit, lowering total Cold Resistance by 20-30% modifier now applies Elemental Exposure instead.
Direct change
Heart of Ice, granted by the Whispering Ice Unique Staff: Now Chills enemies in your Presence as though dealing 26-888 to 39-1332 Cold Damage at gem levels 1-20 (previously 12-378 to 18-567).
Base, mechanics, and similar items
9 connections
Base typePermafrost StaffGrants Skill: Heart of Ice
Granted skillHeart of IceChills all enemies in your Presence.
Granted skillIcestormConjure a hail of icy bolts over the targeted area. Chill and Freeze on enemies in front of you are Consumed to fuel the Icestorm by creating improved bolts.
Referenced mechanicColdCold connects 122 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicElementalElemental connects 33 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicExposureExposure connects 3 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicIntelligenceIntelligence connects 59 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicResistancesResistances connects 35 imported PoE2 records.
Referenced mechanicSpellSpell connects 183 imported PoE2 records.
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