Cold Damage

Diablo II Notation Basic Class Skill Item Ally Quest Area Monster Tale Attribute Unit Animation Attack Damage Death Crushing Blow Enhanced Minimum Maximum Adds Damage Damage + % Damage to Demons to Undead Deadly Strike Magic Fire Lightning Cold Poison Skill Damage ATD/ATLD DR/MDR Resistance Maximum Enemy Resist Immune Absorb Sunder Cold damage overlay Cold Damage is normally less damaging than fire, but any accompanying cold length can chill, reducing attack rate and movement speed, and summing with Slows Target, Holy Freeze and Decrepify. The magnitude of this effect is determined by the target's chill effectiveness: units with 0 chill effectiveness will not be slowed at all. [1] Damage of multiple types can be applied by the same attack, but only one damage overlay is displayed at a time: this means that cold damage can still be applied even if the only overlay displayed is for fire, lightning or poison damage. Targets turn blue until the slowing effect of cold length expires. This takes precedence over turning green while poisoned, but poison damage is still applied (although there will be no visual indication that it has expired unless cold length expires first). Cold length applied by player, mercenary or pets is reduced to 1/2 in Nightmare and 1/4 in Hell. Cold Resist reduces both cold damage and cold length. Half Freeze Duration will halve cold length but it has no effect on cold damage. Cannot be Frozen prevents cold length from being applied. Drinking a Thawing Potion after cold length has been applied will remove it. When cold length is applied to a target that has already been chilled, it will overwrite the existing length if it is equal to or greater than the existing length. If a monster dies as a result of any cold damage, there is ~25% chance that it will shatter and leave no corpse as long as at least 1 frame (0.04 second) of cold length applied after its cold resistance but before any difficulty level penalty. This does not prevent it from dropping items, but it will prevent a Barbarian from using Find Potion or Find Item. Item Charm Small Charm Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Snowy Small Charm (1-2) (2-4) 25 1 20 27 Shivering Small Charm (3-4) (5-8) 25 1 34 42 Boreal Small Charm (5-7) (9-14) 25 1 58 66 Hibernal Small Charm (8-10) (15-20) 25 1 83 91 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Small Charm of Frost 1 2 25 1 10 14 Small Charm of the Icicle 2 (3-4) 25 1 15 21 Small Charm of the Glacier 3 (5-6) 25 1 25 33 Small Charm of Winter (4-5) (7-9) 25 1 38 46 Large Charm Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Snowy Large Charm (2-3) (3-5) 25 1 13 18 Shivering Large Charm (4-5) (6-10) 25 1 21 29 Boreal Large Charm (6-10) (11-20) 25 1 41 49 Hibernal Large Charm (11-15) (21-30) 25 1 61 69 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Large Charm of Frost 1 (2-3) 25 1 6 9 Large Charm of the Icicle 2 (4-5) 25 1 11 15 Large Charm of the Glacier 3 (6-8) 25 1 18 25 Large Charm of Winter (4-6) (9-12) 25 1 27 35 Grand Charm Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Snowy Grand Charm 1 (2-3) 25 1 6 9 Shivering Grand Charm (2-4) (4-8) 25 1 11 15 Boreal Grand Charm (5-7) (9-15) 25 1 22 30 Hibernal Grand Charm (8-13) (16-25) 25 1 38 45 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Grand Charm of Frost 1 2 25 1 3 5 Grand Charm of the Icicle 2 (3-4) 25 1 6 8 Grand Charm of the Glacier 3 (5-7) 25 1 11 15 Grand Charm of Winter (4-6) (8-11) 25 1 17 23 Any socket Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Jewel of Frigidity 1 (3-5) 50 2 12 16 Jewel of the Icicle (2-3) (6-10) 50 2 29 37 Jewel of the Glacier (4-5) (11-15) 50 2 50 58 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Rainbow Facet Jewel 24 38 3 0.12 49 No Helm Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Vampire Gaze Grim Helm 6 22 100 4 41 No Circlet Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Snowy circlet (6-9) (19-30) 25 1 18 25 Amulet Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Amulet of Frost 1 (3-6) 50 2 41 55 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder The Eye of Etlich Amulet (1-2) (3-5) (50-250) (2-10) 15 No Body armor Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Duress body armor 37 133 50 2 47 No Weapon Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Snowy weapon (6-9) (19-30) 25 1 18 25 Shivering weapon (10-15) (31-45) 50 2 26 35 Boreal weapon (16-23) (46-90) 75 3 40 50 Hibernal weapon (24-45) (91-140) 100 4 60 70 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Weapon of Frost 1 1 1 25 1 1 1-3 Weapon of Frost 2 1 (1-2) 50 2 3 4 Weapon of the Icicle 2 1 (3-4) 75 3 9 13 Weapon of the Glacier 2 (2-4) (4-15) 100 4 20 27 1 Excluding orb, staff and wand 2 Excluding orb and wand Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Chipped Sapphire in socket 1 3 25 1 1 No Flawed Sapphire in socket 3 5 35 1.4 5 No Sapphire in socket 4 7 50 2 12 No Flawless Sapphire in socket 6 10 60 2.4 15 No Perfect Sapphire in socket 10 14 75 3 18 No Thul Rune in socket 3 14 75 3 23 No Melee weapon Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Melee weapon of Winter 1 (5-9) (16-50) 150 6 37 45 1 Excluding orb and wand Axe Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Coldkill Hatchet 40 40 50 2 36 No Famine axe 50 200 100 4 65 No Gimmershred Flying Axe 176 397 100 4 70 No Claw Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Natalya's Mark Scissors Suwayyah 50 50 100 4 79 No Club Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Black club 3 14 75 3 35 No Nord's Tenderizer Truncheon 205 455 125 5 68 No Hammer Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Black hammer 3 14 75 3 35 No Lawbringer hammer 130 180 (130-180) (5.2-7.2) 43 Yes Famine hammer 50 200 100 4 65 No Immortal King's Stone Crusher Ogre Maul (4 items) 127 364 150 6 76 No Mace Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Black mace 3 14 75 3 35 No Heart of the Oak mace 3 14 75 3 57 No Sureshrill Frost Flanged Mace 63 112 125 5 39 No Baranar's Star Devil Star 1 200 (1-200) (0.04-8) 65 No Voice of Reason mace 100 220 (100-220) (4-8.8) 43 Yes Polearm Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Obedience polearm 3 14 75 3 41 Yes The Reaper's Toll Thresher 4 44 (4-44) (0.16-1.76) 75 Yes Scepter Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Stormeye War Scepter 3 5 75 3 23 No King's Grace scepter 3 14 75 3 25 No Lawbringer scepter 130 180 (130-180) (5.2-7.2) 43 Yes Staff Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Heart of the Oak staff 3 14 75 3 57 No Sword Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Gleamscythe Falchion 3 5 50 2 13 No King's Grace sword 3 14 75 3 25 No Spirit sword 3 14 75 3 25 Yes Shadowfang Two-handed Sword 10 30 150 6 12 No Sazabi's Cobalt Redeemer Cryptic Sword 25 35 50 2 73 No Death's Touch War Sword (2 items) 25 75 75 3 6 No Bing Sz Wang Dacian Falx 50 140 75 3 43 No Lawbringer sword 130 180 (130-180) (5.2-7.2) 43 Yes Voice of Reason sword 100 220 (100-220) (4-8.8) 43 Yes Frostwind Cryptic Sword 237 486 150 6 70 No Azurewrath Phase Blade 250 500 250 10 85 Yes Wand Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Gravenspine Bone Wand 4 8 75 3 20 No Sander's Superstition Bone Wand 25 75 50 2 25 No Missile weapon Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Harmony missile weapon 55 160 (55-160) (2.2-6.4) 39 Yes Bow Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Endlesshail Double Bow 15 30 75 3 36 No Arctic Horn Short War Bow (3 items) 20 30 75 3 2 No Crossbow Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Buriza-Do Kyanon Ballista 32 196 200 8 41 No Hellrack Colossus Crossbow 63 324 33 1.32 76 No Throwing weapon Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Gimmershred Flying Axe 176 397 100 4 70 No Shield Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Tiamat's Rebuke Dragon Shield 27 53 150 6 38 No Ring Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Raven Frost Ring 15 45 100 4 45 No Belt Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Min Alvl Belt of Frost 1 (3-6) 50 2 41 55 Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Snowclash Battle Belt 13 21 75 3 42 No Gloves Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Frostburn Gauntlets 1 6 50 2 29 No M'avina's Icy Clutch Battle Gauntlets 6 18 150 6 32 No M'avina's Icy Clutch Battle Gauntlets (4 items) 137 270 250 10 32 No Set bonus Min Max Frames Seconds Source Min Rlvl Ladder Arctic Gear (Full) 6 14 100 4 2 No Vidala's Rig (Full) 15 20 50 2 14 No Skill Amazon Skill Skill level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Cold Arrow 1 Min 2*slvl + 1 2.5*slvl - 3 4.0*slvl - 27 8.0*slvl - 115 21*slvl - 479 6 Max 2*slvl + 2 2.5*slvl - 2 4.5*slvl - 34 8.5*slvl - 122 22*slvl - 500 +% 12*Ice Arrow.blvl Sec 1.2*slvl + 2.8 Ice Arrow 2 Min 6*slvl 12*slvl - 48 18*slvl - 144 26*slvl - 320 36*slvl - 600 18 Max 6*slvl + 4 13*slvl - 52 19*slvl - 148 27*slvl - 324 38*slvl - 632 +% 8*Cold Arrow.blvl Freezing Arrow 2 Explosion Min 10*slvl + 30 15*slvl - 10 20*slvl - 90 22*slvl - 134 24*slvl - 190 30 Max 10*slvl + 40 15*slvl 20*slvl - 80 22*slvl - 124 24*slvl - 180 +% 12*Cold Arrow.blvl 1 Converts min(2*slvl + 1 , 100) % physical attack damage to cold damage as well 2 Freeze length is applied, but cold length from items is added and converted to freeze length; cold damage from items and Holy Freeze is also added Assassin Skill Skill level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Blades of Ice Min 8*slvl + 7 10*slvl - 9 20*slvl - 169 30*slvl - 389 40*slvl - 669 24 Max 8*slvl + 27 10*slvl + 11 22*slvl - 181 32*slvl - 401 42*slvl - 681 +% 8*Phoenix Strike.blvl Sec 0.4*slvl + 3.8 Phoenix Strike 1 Third charge Min 4*slvl + 12 8*slvl - 20 12*slvl - 84 20*slvl - 260 28*slvl - 484 30 Max 4*slvl + 28 8*slvl - 4 13*slvl - 84 21*slvl - 260 29*slvl - 484 +% 10*Blades of Ice.blvl 1 Freeze length is applied, not cold length Druid Skill Skill level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Arctic Blast (1/256) 1 Min 64*slvl + 20 72*slvl - 44 80*slvl - 172 96*slvl - 524 116*slvl - 1084 6 Max 64*slvl + 96 76*slvl 84*slvl - 128 100*slvl - 480 124*slvl - 1152 +% 15 * Cyclone Armor.blvl+Hurricane.blvl Sec 0.6*slvl + 3.4 Hurricane Min 7*slvl + 18 10*slvl - 6 12*slvl - 38 14*slvl - 82 16*slvl - 138 30 Max 7*slvl + 43 10*slvl + 19 12*slvl - 13 14*slvl - 57 16*slvl - 113 +% 9 * Twister.blvl+Tornado.blvl Sec 2 1 Actual cold damage per second is * 25/512; displayed cold damage per second is * 25/256 [2] [3] Paladin Skill Skill level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Vengeance +% 6*slvl + 64 + 10*Resist Cold.blvl + 2*Salvation.blvl of physical attack damage 18 Sec 0.6*slvl + 0.6 Holy Freeze Radial Min slvl+1 2*slvl - 7 3*slvl - 23 4*slvl - 45 5*slvl - 73 18 Max slvl+2 2*slvl - 6 3*slvl - 22 4*slvl - 44 5*slvl - 72 +% 15*Resist Cold.blvl + 7*Salvation.blvl Holy Freeze Attack Min 5*slvl + 5 10*slvl - 35 15*slvl - 115 20*slvl - 225 25*slvl - 365 Max 5*slvl + 10 10*slvl - 30 15*slvl - 110 20*slvl - 220 25*slvl - 360 +% 15*Resist Cold.blvl + 7*Salvation.blvl Sorceress Skill Skill level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Ice Bolt Min slvl+2 2*slvl - 6 3*slvl - 22 4*slvl - 44 5*slvl - 72 1 Max 1.5*slvl + 3.5 2.5*slvl - 4.5 3.5*slvl - 20.5 4.5*slvl - 42.5 5.5*slvl - 70.5 +% 15 * Frost Nova.blvl+Ice Blast.blvl+Glacial Spike.blvl+Blizzard.blvl+Frozen Orb.blvl Sec 1.4*slvl + 4.6 Frost Nova Min 2*slvl 3*slvl - 8 4*slvl - 24 5*slvl - 46 6*slvl - 74 6 Max 2.5*slvl + 1.5 3.5*slvl - 6.5 4.5*slvl - 22.5 5.5*slvl - 44.5 6.5*slvl - 72.5 +% 10 * Blizzard.blvl+Frozen Orb.blvl Sec slvl+7 Ice Blast 1 Min 7*slvl + 1 14*slvl - 55 21*slvl - 167 28*slvl - 321 35*slvl - 517 6 Max 7.5*slvl + 4.5 14.5*slvl - 51.5 21.5*slvl - 163.5 28.5*slvl - 317.5 35.5*slvl - 513.5 +% 8 * Ice Bolt.blvl+Blizzard.blvl+Frozen Orb.blvl Shiver Armor Min 2*slvl + 4 3*slvl - 4 4*slvl - 20 5*slvl - 42 6*slvl - 70 12 Max 2.5*slvl + 5.5 3.5*slvl - 2.5 4.5*slvl - 18.5 5.5*slvl - 40.5 6.5*slvl - 68.5 +% 9 * Frozen Armor.blvl+Chilling Armor.blvl Sec 4 Glacial Spike 1 Min 7*slvl + 9 13*slvl - 39 14*slvl - 55 15*slvl - 77 16*slvl - 105 18 Max 7.5*slvl + 16.5 13.5*slvl - 31.5 14.5*slvl - 47.5 15.5*slvl - 69.5 16.5*slvl - 97.5 +% 5 * Ice Bolt.blvl+Ice Blast.blvl+Frozen Orb.blvl Blizzard Min 15*slvl + 30 30*slvl - 90 45*slvl - 330 55*slvl - 550 65*slvl - 830 24 Max 16*slvl + 59 31*slvl - 61 46*slvl - 301 56*slvl - 521 66*slvl - 801 +% 5 * Ice Bolt.blvl+Ice Blast.blvl+Glacial Spike.blvl Sec 4 Chilling Armor Min slvl+3 2*slvl - 5 3*slvl - 21 4*slvl - 43 5*slvl - 71 24 Max 1.5*slvl + 4.5 2.5*slvl - 3.5 3.5*slvl - 19.5 4.5*slvl - 41.5 5.5*slvl - 69.5 +% 7 * Frozen Armor.blvl+Shiver Armor.blvl Sec 4 slvl-4 slvl-4 slvl-4 slvl-4 Frozen Orb Min 10*slvl + 30 12*slvl + 14 14*slvl - 18 14.5*slvl - 29 15*slvl - 43 30 Max 10.5*slvl + 34.5 12.5*slvl + 18.5 14.5*slvl - 13.5 15*slvl - 24.5 15.5*slvl - 38.5 +% 2*Ice Bolt.blvl Sec slvl+7 1 Freeze length is applied, not cold length Pet Necromancer Pet Missile level Min Rlvl 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 > 28 Necromage Min lvl 2*lvl - 8 3*lvl - 24 4*lvl - 46 5*lvl - 74 12 Max 3+lvl 2*lvl - 5 3*lvl - 21 4*lvl - 43 5*lvl - 71 Sec Missile level (lvl) Lvl if(slvl < 4 , 0 , [slvl-2 /2] ) + Skeleton Mastery.slvl Monster Monster Normal Nightmare Hell Ghostly Min [MonLvl*0.33] [MonLvl*0.33] [MonLvl*0.33] Max [MonLvl*0.5] [MonLvl*0.5] [MonLvl*0.5] Sec 6 6 6 Cold Enchanted Unique Min [MonLvl*0.66] [MonLvl*0.66] [MonLvl*0.66] Max MonLvl MonLvl MonLvl Sec mlvl*0.2 + 4 mlvl*0.2 + 4 mlvl*0.2 + 4 Cold Enchanted minion Min [MonLvl*0.33] [MonLvl*0.33] Max [MonLvl*0.5] [MonLvl*0.5] Sec mlvl*0.2 + 4 mlvl*0.2 + 4 mlvl*0.2 + 4 Spectral Hit Unique Min [MonLvl*0.66] [MonLvl*0.66] [MonLvl*0.66] Max MonLvl MonLvl MonLvl Sec 1.6 1.6 1.6 [4] [5] [6] When a Cold Enchanted Unique releases a level [mlvl/2] coldunique nova, it applies the following: Stat Level 1-8 9-16 17-22 23-28 >28 Minimum Cold Damage 4*lvl + 2 5*lvl - 6 6*lvl - 22 8*lvl - 66 10*lvl - 122 Maximum Cold Damage 4*lvl + 4 5*lvl - 4 6*lvl - 20 8*lvl - 64 10*lvl - 120 Cold Length (Seconds) lvl+2 [7] Level > 19 Aura Enchanted monsters can be enchanted with max( [mlvl/7] , 1) Holy Freeze. Cold damage and length is added to attack damage of some monsters, while others can fire missiles or use skills applying it. Reference Inferno & Arctic Blast Bug (Technical Discussion) Item cold damage: unspecified cold length (Technical Discussion) Nefarius, Boss Status Modifications (1.11b) (Phrozen Keep) Onderduiker, Chill Effectiveness (Technical Discussion) Onderduiker, Monster Bonuses, Death Damage and Corpse Explosion (Technical Discussion)