"Flash-Freeze!"

This article is about the Tempest utility skill. For the bundle skill, see Flash Freeze. For the bounty effect, see Flash Freeze (effect). For the Prologue: Bound by Blood achievement, see A Race to Arms.

Shout. Unleash a torrent of ice on enemy locations, chilling those who cannot escape. Grant frost aura to allies in range. — In-game description

"Flash-Freeze!"

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Specialization

Tempest

Slot

Utility

Type

Shout

Training cost

15 Hero points

Game link

API

29948, 29844

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"Flash-Freeze!"

Shout. Unleash a torrent of ice on enemy locations, chilling those who cannot escape. Grant frost aura to allies in range.

 Damage: 186 (0.7)^?

 Damage: 27 (0.1)^?

 Chilled (3s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Chilled (4s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Regen (4s): 520 Heal

 Frost Aura (4s): -10% Incoming Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 600

— In-game description

Related traits

Fire

• Smothering Auras — Fire auras have increased duration. Applying auras to allies removes conditions, and transmuting auras removes conditions from nearby allies.

Air

• Zephyr's Boon — Grant boons to allies you grant auras to.

Earth

• Elemental Shielding — Auras you grant to allies also grant protection.

Water

• Cleansing Water — Cleanse conditions from allies you grant regeneration to.
• Powerful Aura — Any aura you grant yourself is granted to nearby allies.

Arcane

• Bountiful Power — Deal increased strike damage for each boon on you.

Tempest

• Singularity — Attain elemental singularity by remaining in an attunement for a period of time. Upon attaining singularity, you may overload the attunement to your vicinity. Gain access to Shouts.
• Tempestuous Aria — Using a shout grants allies might. Granting an aura to an ally increases your outgoing damage for a period of time.
• Invigorating Torrents — Auras you grant also grant regeneration and vigor.
• Elemental Bastion — Heal allies you grant an aura to. Grant frost aura to nearby allies when struck while below the health threshold.

Notes

• Has a short delay after the frost particles appear on the enemy.

Anomalies:

Has a different tooltip in combat logs:

Chill and freeze enemies while granting frost aura to allies.

 Damage (2x): 186 (0.7)^?

 Chilled (2s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

 Duration: 3 seconds

 Radius: 600

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
February 28, 2022	End of Dragons release: The tempest's shout skills have had their maximum targets reduced from 10 to 5.
October 26, 2021	Multiplicative damage reduction enhancements have been updated to display how much damage was reduced by rather than displaying how much the damage is multiplied by. For example, protection now displays "-33% Damage" instead of "67% damage." This is not a change to functionality; it is only a change to display the bonus in a more intuitively understandable way.
October 05, 2021	All effects that provide a percentage reduction to incoming damage have been standardized to stack multiplicatively.
December 01, 2020	Shout Skills: Increased the maximum number of targets from 5 to 10 in PvE only.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient from 0.7 to 0.1. Increased chill duration from 3 seconds to 4 seconds.
March 05, 2019	This skill now applies 4 seconds of regeneration to nearby allies in addition to its other effects.
October 02, 2018	The cooldown of this skill has been reduced from 30 seconds to 25 seconds in PvE only.
May 17, 2016	The cooldown of this skill has been increased from 25 seconds to 30 seconds.
April 20, 2016	Fixed a bug that allowed this skill to cleanse more than one condition when used with Rune of the Soldier.
December 01, 2015	Reduced the visual noise on the effects associated with this skill.
October 23, 2015	Heart of Thorns release: "Flash-Freeze!" has been added to the game.