Herald of Ice

herald of ice only deals damage with the explosion on shatter i guess... the added cold dmg is a passive

Can someone reply on whether the Q20 effect of HoI is local or global?

15% cold damage on itself would be nothing. 15% cold damage on the supported spells would be a lot. It's actually leaps and bounds in effectiveness on how this works.

the dmg effectivesnes of herald of ice is 30% what does that mean the added dmg or the explode dmg?

Does quality on support Gems work on Herald of Ice?

I understand that added dmg from the added cold dmg gem do not work on the dmg added to the spell and attack dmg . But quality should work right ? Example chance to freeze or 10% increase in cold dmg .

Also I want to clear it up with GGG if IIR also works on it as well.

The mechanics of this build sounds a little confusing.

If support gem only works on shatter effect, then perhaps this self buff is only useful to crit builds or cold builds that already have the chance to freeze effect.

Because as a resolute technique build i will never freeze targets.

Although it's not a biggie and it was great that mark commented that the blind support gem works on both shatter dmg and spell / attack dmg, I hope there are more info in regards to this particular self buff mechanic.

I just want to confirm something , there are absolutely no support gems that can work with phase 1 which is the cold dmg added to spell / attack , is that right to say ?

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Vipermagi wrote:

Empower works. :P That's the only Support that has an effect on the Added Damage, by virtue of increasing Herald's own Gem level.

Thats a bummer :(

i'm not so sure but i linked increased critical strikes and the tooltipe of the aura states increased crit chance.

i may be imagining things but i feel that it applies to the proc rather than the supported skill. it's hard for me to see though because i'm doing a crit discharge build.

Using this atm, it's supported by all and the increased chill duration also gets ele prolif, so double usage.

Herald of Ice is also a spell, so I think it receives bonuses from spell dmg passives. The aura adds about a 1000 dps to my ice nova.