Freezing Arrow

Key details

• Enchants an arrow or bolt by adding explosive cold damage to it and increasing its Attack Rating.
• Cold damage is added to the projectile's damage.
• Upon impact with any target or surface, the projectile explodes across 3.3 yard radius - enough to strike several monsters in a tight cluster - dealing the projectile's full cold damage to every foe in the area.
• Consistent with the description above, Arrows and Bolts that benefit from other sources of cold damage - be it from a Sapphire, Thul, or Holy Freeze - will pass that damage along to the explosion caused by this skill.
• Targets susceptible to the Frozen condition will be frozen for the listed duration.
• In addition, every other source of cold damage applied to the projectile will add its chill duration to this freeze duration.
• The sum duration is then reduced in accordance with the appropriate difficulty penalty (50% duration in Nightmare, 25% duration in Hell).
• Player vs Player: Other players will be chilled, not frozen.
• Freezing Arrow is much like the Sorceress' Glacial Spike.
• Freezing Arrow can be a bit more potent still because, in addition to the base arrow damage, it can also work with Pierce and Critical Strike.
• The Pierce skill and Piercing Attack attribute can allow this skill to generate multiple explosions with a single arrow.
• This can be devastating to tightly-packed groups of targets.
• While the skill's initial explosion does not call for this skill to pass the projectile's To-Hit check, a projectile can only Pierce if the To-Hit check is successful.
• When the To-Hit check is unsuccessful, the projectile will appear to continue travelling and causing additional explosions, but these "phantom" explosions, and the projectile itself, will deal no damage.