Frost Storm

Call down an ice storm on the targeted area. The number of final ice shards are increased for each stack of Water Arrow. Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill. — In-game description

Frost Storm

 

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Parent skill

  Conjure Frost Bow

Bundle

Frost Bow

Activ. type

Channeled

Game link

API

5723

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20.75¾  20  

Frost Storm

Call down an ice storm on the targeted area. The number of final ice shards are increased for each stack of Water Arrow.
Damage is reduced per target each time foes are struck by this skill.

 Damage: 249 (0.7)^?

 Minimum Damage: 50 (0.14)^?

 Damage Reduction per Hit: 10%

 Bleeding (3s): 66 Damage

 Number of Impacts: 24

 Bonus Impact per Stack of Water Arrow: 1

 Number of Targets: 3

 Radius: 240

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Related traits

Earth

• Serrated Stones — Bleeding you inflict has increased duration. Deal increased damage to bleeding foes.

Notes

• Movement interrupts the activation time, resulting in fewer impacts.
• Damage listed is per hit. Like Meteor Shower, smaller AoEs rain down around the target area.
  • The storm itself is smaller in radius, making this skill more effective against single targets, particularly large ones that can be hit by all of the ice AoEs.
• The minimum damage it can deal per hit is 20% of its max which will start occuring at the 9th hit.
• Assuming all 24 impacts hit, it will do a total of

 Damage: 2,089 (5.88)^?

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
July 10, 2018	This skill has been renamed Frost Storm. It no longer has an internal cooldown between hits, and instead it inflicts reduced damage on each subsequent hit. Initial strike damage has been increased by 60% and will reduce by 10% per impact to a minimum of 20%. These numbers will now be used in all game modes. Bleeding duration has been reduced from 5 seconds to 3 seconds per impact.
November 07, 2017	Against nonplayer enemies, this skill now has a 0.25-second cooldown on each enemy, during which the enemy cannot be struck again by the skill.
August 08, 2017	Path of Fire pre-patch: This skill now fires one additional attack per stack of Water Arrow.
October 18, 2016	Ice Storm damage has been doubled in PvP only.
September 29, 2015	Reduced the damage by 50% and lowered the number of targets per impact to 3. Fixed a bug that caused all impacts to fall within a smaller than intended radius when casting this skill.
September 30, 2014	Added a Number of Impacts: 24 skill fact.
October 15, 2013	Increased the impact radius from 90 to 120.
November 15, 2012	This skill now applies 5 seconds of bleeding per hit instead of confusion.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Frost Storm has been added to the game.