Winter Origin Enhancements

Overview

Winter Origin (WO) Enhancements are all-unique and attuned enhancements. There are four damage sets, a hold set, a slow set, and a travel set for a total of seven sets. Standard winter enhancements grant set bonuses that are roughly equivalent to rare enhancement sets, while superior winter enhancements grant set bonuses that are roughly equivalent to very rare enhancement sets. Each standard enhancement has a level 10 minimum requirement, but as an attuned enhancement, the enhancement portion will increase as the character's level increases. The enhancement portion is affected by exemplar as normal. Set bonuses for standard enhancements will operate down to level 7.

Note that winter enhancements are not Inventions: they do not need to be crafted. Once claimed from the "Character Item" tab of the Email Window, they appear in the character's enhancement tray and are ready to be slotted.

Players can both trade and email all winter enhancements.

Availability

Winter enhancements are available from the following sources:

• As Rare or Very Rare items in Lords of Winter Super Packs
• On the Auction House
• Reward Merit Vendors for 150 (non-special pieces) or 210 (special pieces) Rewards Merits
• Astral Christy for 33 (non-special pieces) or 42 (special pieces) Astral Merits
• Gladiator Merit Vendors for 150 (non-special pieces) or 210 (special pieces) Gladiator Merits
• Alignment Merit Vendors for 8 (non-special pieces) or 9 (special pieces) Alignment Merits

Editor's Note: Currently Winter's Gift and Winter Storm are not available from vendors, but only available through the Lords of Winter Super Pack or the Auction House

Superior Enhancements

Enhancement catalysts can be applied to the standard enhancements to boost them to "Superior" versions with higher enhancement values and bigger set bonuses. However, catalyzing a winter enhancement will also increase the minimum level requirement to 50, similar to very rare (purple) enhancements. To catalyze a whole standard set into a superior set, a player must have six enhancement catalysts, as each piece must be catalyzed separately.

Standard and superior enhancements of the same type are mutually exclusive; a character cannot slot both Avalanche: Accuracy/Damage and Superior Avalanche: Accuracy/Damage. This means that set bonuses are limited; a character can get the first and second set bonuses twice (by slotting three standard pieces and three superior pieces), or the first set bonus twice and the second and third set bonus once (by slotting two and four pieces), but cannot get the third, fourth, and fifth bonuses from both sets. Note that the set bonuses for the standard and superior versions are different; the superior version grants higher bonuses.

Enhancement Listing

The following table lists each Winter Enhancement set, and includes the bonus that the special enhancement grants. The final column is the average times per minute the proc chance has to fire (Procs Per Minute, or PPM); if nothing is listed, it functions more like a global.

Note that damage numbers are derived from Level 50 characters. Lower level characters will see lower numbers.

Enhancement Type	Enhancement Set Name	Special Enhancement Bonus	PPM
PBAoE Damage	Avalanche	Chance for Knockdown by the slotted power	2.5/min [3.5/min]*
Melee Damage	Blistering Cold	Chance for Hold by the slotted power	3/min [4/min]*
Hold	Entomb	Chance for Absorb Shield on caster of slotted power	2/min [3/min]*
Targeted AoE Damage	Frozen Blast	Chance for Immobilize by the slotted power	2.5/min [3.5/min]*
Slow	Winter Storm	Chance for 71.8 [107]* cold damage by the slotted power	3.5/min [4.5/min]*
Ranged Damage	Winter's Bite	Chance for -Speed & -Recharge by the slotted power	4/min [5/min]*
Universal Travel	Winter's Gift	20% [25%]* Slow Resistance	N/A

* Purple numbers inside square brackets indicate the Superior version's special enhancement bonus.