Patch 0.5.5 ·

Skill Gems

Glacial Cascade

Glacial Cascade is a Skill Gem in Path of Exile 2. Tags: Attack, AoE, Melee, Cold, Payoff. 272 Support Gems can support it.

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Glacial Cascade
Attack, AoE, Melee, Cold, Payoff
Level: 1
Cost: 9 Mana
Use Time: 1 sec
Attack Speed: 75% of base
Bursts: 8
Sweep your Quarterstaff upwards, releasing an icy fissure which deals damage in a series of bursts culminating in a large spike. Frozen enemies hit by the final spike are dealt heavy damage but the Freeze is Consumed. Ice Crystals hit by the final spike explode.
Wave
Cannot Freeze
Converts 80% of Physical damage to Cold damage
Burst radius is 0.6 metres
Wave length is 4.8 metres
Final Burst
Cannot Knock Enemies Back
Consumes Freeze on Unique enemies to deal 425% more Damage
Consumes Freeze on Non-Unique enemies to deal 250% more Damage
Burst radius is 0.3 metres
Converts 20% of Physical damage to Cold damage
Type
Skill Gems
Attribute
No attribute
Tags
Attack, AoE, Melee, Cold, Payoff
Gemcutting
Uncut Gem level 1 or higher
Gemcutting category
Quarterstaff
Levels
1–40

Quality

At 20% quality

  • Gains 15% of Physical damage as Cold damage

Additionally with Advanced Thaumaturgy (Gemling Legionnaire)

  • 20% more Attack Speed

Used in builds

None of our builds uses this yet.

Values per level

Only values that change with the level – fixed values are in the tooltip. Click a row to show that level in the tooltip.

Level Character levelCost
1 –9 Mana
2 310 Mana
3 612 Mana
4 1014 Mana
5 1415 Mana
6 1817 Mana
7 2219 Mana
8 2622 Mana
9 3124 Mana
10 3626 Mana
11 4129 Mana
12 4632 Mana
13 5235 Mana
14 5838 Mana
15 6442 Mana
16 6645 Mana
17 7249 Mana
18 7854 Mana
19 8458 Mana
20 9063 Mana
Levels 21–40 (from additional gem levels)
Level Character levelCost
21 –68 Mana
22 –73 Mana
23 –79 Mana
24 –85 Mana
25 –91 Mana
26 –98 Mana
27 –105 Mana
28 –112 Mana
29 –120 Mana
30 –129 Mana
31 –138 Mana
32 –147 Mana
33 –157 Mana
34 –168 Mana
35 –179 Mana
36 –191 Mana
37 –204 Mana
38 –217 Mana
39 –231 Mana
40 –246 Mana

Matching supports 272

272 Support Gems can support this skill.

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