What is the difference?
I have seen both Frost damage and Cold damage modifiers on separate items but just now I had a chest piece drop that gave a Frost damage modifier and a Cold damage modifier both on it.
Again, what is the difference?
Which one is better?
AFAIK, Cold damage is general and Frost damage is Sorceress skill specific. The damage should be in the same bucket (additive) so doesn’t matter which one you get.
There is no “frost damage”, but there is “frost skill damage”.
“Cold” is just a general damage type, “frost” is a category of several sorc skills.
Most (if not all, though I’m not sure about Shatter, even if it’s damage is not increased by any bonuses) offensive frost skills do cold damage.
Ice Spikes from aspects do cold damage (at least tooltip for aspect of frozen tundra says so), but they are most likely not frost skills and so do not benefit from +frost skill dmg bonus.
Just more overly complicated mechanics in the game. What’s next? Cold, frost, cool or frigid damage? Come on, blizzard.
Its already there… damage to chilled/frozen.
It’s a simple system, nothing complicated. You even have tags in skill descriptions.
If anything it’s an illusion of complication since they’re all additive in the one damage mulitplier.
Cold is a damage school
Frost is a skill school
ie. Ice Shards is a frost skill, that deals cold damage.
No one really knows. Does it get the benefit from fire? Doesn’t make any sense.
Technically it’s the sorc specific class skills bonus, but why?
thats not true unfortunately. at least there is a nm dungeon buff that says 15% more frost damage. its not saying 15% more frost skill damage. me playing ice spikes blizzard is wondering if this buff even applies to the ice spikes
How about Blizzard damage ???