Frost Storm/history

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July 10, 2018

  • Frost Storm: 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.
Frost Storm.png

Frost Storm

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Elementalist icon small.png Elementalist (skill list)
Parent skill
Conjure Frost Bow.png Conjure Frost Bow
Bundle
Frost Bow
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Frost Storm

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

Damage.png Damage: 249 (0.7)?
Damage.png Minimum Damage: 56 (0.14)?
Damage.png Damage Reduction per Hit: 10%
Bleeding.png Bleeding (3s): 66 Damage
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Impacts: 24
Miscellaneous effect.png Bonus Impact per Stack of Water Arrow: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

November 07, 2017

  • Ice Storm: 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

  • Ice Storm: This skill now fires one additional attack per stack of Water Arrow.
Frost Storm.png

Ice Storm

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Elementalist icon small.png Elementalist (skill list)
Parent skill
Conjure Frost Bow.png Conjure Frost Bow
Bundle
Frost Bow
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Ice Storm

Call down an ice storm on the target area. The number of final ice shards are increased per stack of Water Arrow.

Damage.png Damage: 178 (0.5)?
Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Bleeding.png Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Impacts: 24
Miscellaneous effect.png Bonus Impact per Stack of Water Arrow: 1
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

October 18, 2016

Frost Storm.png

Ice Storm

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Elementalist icon small.png Elementalist (skill list)
Parent skill
Conjure Frost Bow.png Conjure Frost Bow
Bundle
Frost Bow
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Ice Storm

Call down an ice storm on the target area.

Damage.png Damage: 178 (0.5)?
Damage.png Damage: 355 (1.0)?
Bleeding.png Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Impacts: 24
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

September 29, 2015

  • Conjure Frost BowIce Storm: 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.
Frost Storm.png

Ice Storm

Ground-targeted  
Profession
Elementalist icon small.png Elementalist (skill list)
Parent skill
Conjure Frost Bow.png Conjure Frost Bow
Bundle
Frost Bow
 
Weapon slot 4
Game link
20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Ice Storm

Call down an ice storm on the target area.

Damage.png Damage: 178 (0.5)?
Bleeding.png Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage
Miscellaneous effect.png Number of Impacts: 24
Number of targets.png Number of Targets: 3
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

September 30, 2014

  • Ice Storm (Conjure Frost Bow)
    • Added a Number of Impacts: 24 skill fact.

October 15, 2013

  • Ice Storm: Increased the impact radius from 90 to 120.

November 15, 2012

  • Ice Storm: This skill now applies 5 seconds of bleeding per hit instead of confusion.
20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Ice Storm

Call down an ice storm on the target area.

Damage.png Damage: 325
Bleeding.png Bleeding (5s): 110 Damage
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description

Original version

20.75¾ Activation time  20 Recharge time  
Ice Storm

Call down an ice storm on the target area, confusing all enemies hit.

Damage.png Damage: 325
Confusion.png Confusion (3s): 33 Damage, 49 Damage on Skill Use
Radius.png Radius: 240
Range.png Range: 900

— In-game description