Frost
Category: Crowd control
An Ailment-type status effect that causes immobilization and incapacitation.
If it hits you
Defiance and cleansing skills remove it. A hit from Frost Burst (Sorcerer) ends it.
Applied by
A tag names what must come first, such as a skill level.
Sorcerer
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Active skills (3)
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- with a 50% chance to inflict Frost on the target for 3s.
- Skill level 12: +25% PC target Frost Chance
- Skill level 16: +1s Frost duration
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- Skill level 8: 30% chance to inflict Frost for 3s on landing [Winter's Shackles]
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Stigma skills (5)
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- grants a 5% chance to inflict Frost for 3s on enemies that attack the caster from within 7m for 20s.
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- with a 30% chance to inflict Frost for 3s.
- Skill level 20: +20% Frost Chance
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- Skill level 15: 50% chance to inflict Frost for 3s
- Skill level 25 (not on Global yet): +25% Frost Chance
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- Skill level 25 (not on Global yet): Has a 5% chance to inflict Frost for 3s on attacking target with Frostbite
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- Skill level 25 (not on Global yet): Has a 75% chance to inflict Frost on up to 4 enemies within 4m of the caster for 3s when using [Remove Hibernation]
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Used by
Skills that get a bonus from it, or need it. A tag names what must come first, such as a skill level.
Sorcerer
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Active skills (2)
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- Selects a target afflicted with Frost within 20m and deals 2,699 (+155% Attack) Water damage to up to 4 enemies within 4m of the target.
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- Skill level 8: Reset [Frost Burst] cooldown on landing Frost
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Questions about Frost
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Does Defiance remove Frost?
Yes. Defiance names Frost among the effects it removes, so it frees you while Frost holds you. Tenacity follows, and no new status effect can land on you while it lasts.
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Which stat lowers the chance of getting Frozen?
Frost Resist. The higher it is, the less likely an enemy's Frost skill is to freeze you. Status Effect Resist cuts the odds too, because the game counts Frost as a status effect. Willpower adds to that stat. Frost Chance and Status Effect Chance work for the attacker.
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Does Frost work on bosses?
Not on a boss with Incapacitated Immunity. Frost is an incapacitating effect, and that immunity blocks every such effect. Skills that always freeze NPC targets still fail on that boss. Ordinary monsters do freeze.
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Does the 100% Frost chance on NPC targets also work on players?
No. Players are not NPC targets, so that line skips them. Against a player, the skill uses its own lower Frost chance, the first one its tooltip gives. Frost Resist and Status Effect Resist on that player can shrink it.
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Can cleansing skills remove Frost?
Yes. Next to Defiance, the game names cleansing skills as a way out of Frost. While your Defiance is on cooldown, a cleansing skill from a party member can free you.
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Does Frost have diminishing returns?
Partly. Every class's resist passive reacts to Frost. Hits you take while Frozen add Status Effect Resist stacks, at most one per short cooldown. So each new Frost in a long chain is less likely to land. The stacks wear off within seconds. Defiance removes Frost, then its Tenacity grants full status immunity.