Monsters who are killed while frozen shatter, leaving no corpse behind. Unique bosses cannot shatter. The on-death effects of many monsters will not occur if they are shattered, such as that of the Porcupine Goliath.
You shatter enemies when you kill them while they’re FROZEN. Freeze effect occur when you crit with your cold damage or at % chance to freeze with enough damage.
Freeze duration can be increased (and therefore, minimum hit damage decreased) by freeze and ailment duration modifiers.
When a target is frozen, it is also considered chilled. As the target becomes unfrozen, chill will remain on the target for an additional duration of 0.3 seconds.
The Temporal Chains curse slows timers but does not affect duration stats, which means it does not count toward the 0.3 second minimum, but it will cause the “real duration” of freeze to be longer.
Non-unique enemies that are killed while frozen shatter into pieces. They will still leave loot, but most other on-death effects are suppressed, including:
These on-death effects are not suppressed:
Item with mods Cannot be Frozen means 100% chance to avoid being Frozen.