There Is No Cold Damage Channeling Skill

I was just think about my build for the next league and noticed that there's at least 1 channeling skill for every type of main/core damage except cold.

That is correct.

You could, however, take a physical or lightning channelled skill and convert the damage to cold. If you wanted.

Watching electric zappy effects shatter monsters is pretty nifty.

I actually always wondered why Ice Storm has no channeling tag on it, and yes yes I know Firestorm doesn't have it too.

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sarahschneider wrote:

I actually always wondered why Ice Storm has no channeling tag on it, and yes yes I know Firestorm doesn't have it too.

Because they're duration spells, not channelled spells.

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sainthazard wrote:

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sarahschneider wrote:

I actually always wondered why Ice Storm has no channeling tag on it, and yes yes I know Firestorm doesn't have it too.

Because they're duration spells, not channelled spells.

Yeah I know, still feels odd to me.

Would love to see a giant frost tornado channeling skill.

I doubt it will ever happen, because Vortex already exists. Another duration spell, yes, but definitely a frost tornado.

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Head_Less wrote:

Would love to see a giant frost tornado channeling skill.

You know, I was just thinking about this the other day! I thought, "man, how can poe not have a twister or tornado spell?"

I'd imagine one could be in the works after seeing a lot of the monster abilities in 3.0.

Not sure it should be channeled though. Maybe it could be a single cast and you just try to force out a ton of tornados everywhere (and maybe in a nova with a threshold jewel?).

Seems like it would be a purely phys spell not cold. Which might be cool as it would give a lot of conversion options. Then enemies could all be hindered by being hit by tornados.

If it was channeled, I think it would probably have to be just a single giant tornado that stayed in one spot or IDK how you'd do any single target (no, stupid tornado, over there! No, over there, damnit!)

A cool Cold channeling spell I think would be a channeled spell that does a bunch of frostbolt like things that land in small circles on the ground like the mobs in Act 8.

And I also don't think Ice has a movement skill.

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sainthazard wrote:

I doubt it will ever happen, because Vortex already exists. Another duration spell, yes, but definitely a frost tornado.

You could make it different from Vortex by making the tornadoes move around, like sparks with DoT areas instead of Projectiles. Then the longer you channel before release, the bigger the tornado will be and while doing more damage, it will also move slower. Maybe add a duration component, too, which makes them shrink while traveling, turning into smaller and faster tornadoes while slowly fizzling out. Which would make big ones last longer.

I think something like that could be an interesting skill that in no way overlaps with Vortex all too much.