Holy Freeze

Holy Freeze Class: Paladin Required Level: 18 Skill Tree: Offensive Auras Requires: Might, Holy Fire Active / Passive Periodically slows enemies nearby and deals Cold damage. Damage Type: Cold Synergies: Resist Cold, Salvation Other Stats: Only one Aura can be active at a time; Also adds Cold Damage to attacks

Holy Freeze is a Paladin Skill in Diablo II.

Lore

Using this aura, the Paladin causes the temperature of the air around him to drop drastically, freezing the flesh of his enemies. Those so affected will find their movement drastically hindered and are easily dispatched back to the Hells from whence they spawned.

General Information

Similar to Holy Fire and Holy Shock, this deals periodic damage to all enemies near the user. While it deals about half the damage of Holy Shock, Holy Freeze also slows most enemies in its radius, making it a powerful survival tool.

Damage scales based on distance to the caster. Aura deals double damage at melee range and linearly scales to normal damage at maximum range. The displayed maximum Area Damage value incorporates the maximum proximity damage bonus.

Although graphically it is identical to chilling, it is actually mechanically different: it works on even cold immune enemies, and it stacks with chilling on enemies vulnerable to cold, Decrepify, and the Clay Golem's effects to create an extremely potent slowdown. Cold Resistance and Cannot Be Frozen Items do not have any effect on Holy Freeze.

The Defensive Desert Mercenary in Nightmare comes with this aura. This is often the ideal choice for characters who do not benefit from Might (or a particularly damaging mercenary), especially if the character lacks other effective methods of crowd control.

There are also a few items that give this Aura, including the runewords Doom and Ice.

Duriel also makes use of this skill. The combination of his Holy Freeze, high speed, and high damage makes him a dangerous boss for this reason.

Even though this aura chills even some monsters that are immune to cold, some monsters are still immune to the effects of slowing. Monsters that have a value of 0 for Chilling Effect simply are not affected at all. Many of these "monsters" are immobile defense-type enemies in which chilling makes less sense anyway. All enemies with 0 (or less) chilling include:

• Wraith variants (Hell only)
• Flying Scimitars (Hell only)
• Gargoyle Traps (Nightmare/Hell)
• Lightning Spires (Normal/Nightmare/Hell)
• Mummy Sarcophagi (Normal/Nightmare/Hell)
• Fire Towers (Normal/Nightmare/Hell)
• Willowisp variants (Hell only)
• Bone Fetish variants (Hell only)
• Catapults (Normal/Nightmare/Hell)
• Frozen Horror variants (Nightmare/Hell)
• Death Lords (Normal/Nightmare/Hell) 

Synergy

• Receives synergy from:
  • Resist Cold: +15% Cold Damage Per Level
  • Salvation: +7% Cold Damage Per Level
• Gives Synergy to:
  • None

Skill Progression

Level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Radius (yards)	4	4.7	5.3	6	6.7	7.3	8	8.7	9.3	10	10.7	11.3	12	12.7	13.3	14	14.7	15.3	16	16.7
Slowed By	30%	34%	37%	40%	42%	44%	45%	46%	48%	48%	49%	50%	51%	51%	52%	53%	53%	53%	54%	54%
Cold Damage	2–6	3–8	4–10	5–12	6–14	7–16	8–18	9–20	11–24	13–28	15–32	17–24	19–40	21–44	23–48	25–52	28–58	31–64	34–70	37–76
Cold Damage +X To Your Attack	10–15	15–20	20–25	25–30	30–35	35–40	40–45	45–50	55–60	65–70	75–80	85–90	95–100	105–110	115–120	125–130	140–145	155–160	170–175	185–190

Level	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
Radius (yards)	17.3	18	18.7	19.3	20	20.7	21.3	22	22.7	23.3	24	24.7	25.3	26	26.7	27.3	28	28.7	29.3	30
Slowed By	54%	55%	55%	55%	56%	56%	56%	56%	56%	57%	57%	57%	57%	57%	57%	58%	58%	58%	58%	58%
Cold Damage	40-82	43-88	47-96	51-104	55-112	59-120	63-128	67-136	72-146	77-156	82-166	87-176	92-186	97-196	102-206	107-216	112-226	117-236	122-246	127-256
Cold Damage +X To Your Attack	200-205	215-220	235-240	255-160	275-280	295-300	315-320	335-340	360-365	385-390	410-415	435-440	460-465	485-490	510-515	535-540	560-565	585-590	610-615	635-640

Level	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
Radius (yards)	30.7	31.3	32	32.7	33.3	34	34.7	35.3	36	36.7	37.3	38	38.7	39.3	40	40.7	41.3	42	42.7	43.3
Slowed By	58%	58%	58%	58%	58%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	59%	60%
Cold Damage	132-266	137-276	142-286	147-296	152-306	157-316	162-326	167-336	172-346	177-356	182-366	187-376	192-386	197-396	202-406	207-416	212-426	217-436	222-446	227-456
Cold Damage +X To Your Attack	660-665	685-690	710-715	735-740	760-765	785-790	810-815	835-840	860-865	885-890	910-915	935-940	960-965	985-990	1010-1015	1035-1040	1060-1065	1085-1090	1110-1115	1135-1140