Creeping Frost - Path of Exile

Creeping Frost Creeping Frost is an active skill gem.

Fire an icy projectile that bursts on impact or when reaching the targeted area, dealing area damage and creating a chilling area that deals cold damage over time. This area will creep across the ground towards nearby enemies until its duration expires.You are taking cold damage over time from Creeping Frost"s chilling area

Spell, Projectile, Duration, AoE, Cold. Level: 1–20. Cost: 7–20 Mana. Cast Time: 0.60 sec. Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%. Effectiveness of Added Damage: 120%. Projectile Speed: 844. Requires Level 12.

  • Deals (11–568) to (16–847) Cold Damage
  • Deals (18.4–2225.7) Base Cold Damage per second
  • Base duration is 5 seconds
  • Modifiers to Spell Damage apply to this Skill"s Damage Over Time effect
  • Can have up to 10 Chilling Areas

Place into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket.

NameAdditional Effects From QualityWeight
Creeping Frost(0–10)% increased Area of Effect50

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Related Gems

Level Effect

LevelRequires LevelDexterityIntelligenceCostDeals 11 to 16 Cold DamageDeals 18.4 Base Cold Damage per secondExperience
1121421711, 1618.415,249
2151725814, 2125.841,517
3192130920, 2938.581,983
4232435927, 4056.1147,968
52728411036, 5480.1250,557
63132461148, 72112.6405,086
73536511264, 95156.5447,718
83838551378, 116201.2615,318
94141591495, 142256.5834,639
1044446314116, 173325.41,570,760
1147476715140, 209411.41,633,987
1250497115169, 253515.62,151,030
1353527516204, 305644.72,812,189
1456557916246, 367803.25,099,360
1559588317295, 440997.59,400,731
1662608718353, 5281232.115,273,366
1764629018398, 5951431.826,286,582
1866649219449, 6701661.262,890,590
1968669519505, 7531926.3212,046,017
2070689820568, 8472225.7
217221638, 9522568.3
227421717, 10702962.7
237621804, 12013406.8
247821903, 13473913.2
2580221012, 15114490.1
2682221134, 16935151.5
2784231271, 18975899.2
2886231423, 21246737.6
2988241593, 23787695.4
3090241782, 26608789.4
3191241885, 28149379
3292251993, 297510006.5
3393252108, 314610682.6
3494252228, 332611402.2
3595252356, 351712158.6
3696262490, 371712963.1
3797262632, 392913829.1
3898262782, 415314739.2
3999262940, 438915706.9
40100273107, 463816735.4

Creeping Frost is a projectile cold spell that launches a frozen skull at a targeted area. The projectile will explode when it reaches the targeted area, or if it comes into contact with an enemy. This explosion causes initial damage and creates a chilled area that slows and deals cold damage over time to any enemies that enter it. This chilled ground area will move in the direction of nearby enemies.

Skill functions and interactions

  • Area of Effect: The radius of the explosion is affected by all AoE increases. Full spell damage is done to any enemy in range of the explosion. Concentrated Effect Support and Area of Effect damage passive nodes will only affect the damage if the projectile does not fork or pierce. Additionally Area of Effect chilled ground effect will only trigger at the end of a projectile chain supported by Chain Support.
  • Projectile: While Lesser Multiple Projectiles Support and Greater Multiple Projectiles Support will increase the number of projectiles, a single target can only be hit by one projectile of Creeping Frost. However, an enemy can be hit by multiple explosions from a single cast, provided each projectile can collide with something and there is enough overlap on the enemy. In this sense, Creeping Frost is capable of "shotgunning" an enemy.
  • Duration: Increases/decreases to duration affect length of time the chilled ground remains.

Item acquisition

Creeping Frost can drop anywhere. Drop level: 12.

Recipes

Creeping Frost can be created from the following recipes:

Amount Part Description
13 The Cataclysm Random corrupted level 21 Spell gem
6 The Fox Random level 20 gem
8 Dying Anguish Random level 19 gem with 19% alternative quality
8 The Hook Random corrupted level 21 gem with 23% alternative quality
3 Gemcutter's Promise Random gem with 20% quality
1 Gemcutter's Incubator Random gem with 1–20% quality
1 The Void Random divination card set exchange

Quest reward

This item is given as a quest reward for the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1		 ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✗

Vendor reward

This item can be bought at the listed NPC vendors, after completing the following quests:

Class → Witch Shadow Ranger Duelist Marauder Templar Scion
Quest ↓
The Siren's Cadence
Act 1
Nessa		 ✓ ✓ ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓
A Fixture of Fate
Act 3
Siosa		 ✓
Fallen from Grace
Act 6
Lilly Roth		 ✓

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Creeping Frost.

Name Level Labyrinth Stats Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Creeping Frost Chilling Area Movement Velocity 1 75 Eternal Labyrinth Creeping Frost's Chilling Area has 38% increased Movement Speed helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Damage 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 25% increased Creeping Frost Damage helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Damage 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 40% increased Creeping Frost Damage helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Duration 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 24% increased Creeping Frost Duration helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Duration 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 36% increased Creeping Frost Duration helmet 75
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Area Of Effect 1 66 Merciless Labyrinth 16% increased Creeping Frost Area of Effect helmet 100
default 0
Enchantment Creeping Frost Area Of Effect 2 75 Eternal Labyrinth 24% increased Creeping Frost Area of Effect helmet 75
default 0