Vaal Frostguard

Vaal Frostguard
Location(s)	various vaal side areas Doryani's MachinariumDoryani's Machinarium Maze MapMap Level: 81 Map Tier: 14 Guild Character: ‹ Item Quantity: +(40-60)% Item Rarity: +(40-60)%(20-50)% increased Experience gain Found Items have 10% chance to drop Corrupted in Area Unique Boss is augmented by Player choicesWe are ever the makers of our own undoing.Travel to this Map by using it in a personal Map Device. Maps can only be used once.
Damage	cold damage only, can inflicts Freeze
Resistance(s)	Resists cold damage only

Vaal Frostguard is a cold casting vaal construct.

Despite it is a skeleton mage, according to the in-game lore, vaal construct are not the undead that can be raised by a necromancer, as it is an animated armor that contains a skeleton inside.

Unlike similar cold casting skeleton, such as Axiom Frostguard, Vaal Frostguard also lacks of internal use monster tag "skeleton", despite it still has the monster tag "undead". It also has construct monster tag, unlike Axiom Frostguard.

Abilities

It uses the same generic cold projectile spell SkeletonProjectileCold which is also used by various cold casting skeleton, except those from Summon Skeletons of MagesSummon Skeletons of MagesSpell, Minion, Duration, Prismatic
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (5-16) Mana
Cast Time: 0.50 secRequires Level 10Summon Skeleton Mage minions of random elemental types at the targeted location. They cast projectile spells based on their element, and die after a duration.Maximum (5-7) Summoned Skeletons
Base duration is 20.00 seconds
Summons (2-3) Skeleton Mages

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
+(0.05-1) to Maximum Summoned SkeletonsPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., which uses SkeletonMinionProjectileCold instead.

The monster version has in-built 15% chance to inflict Frozen (Freeze) ailment.

Areas

• Vaal side areas
  • Ancient Catacomb
  • Concealed Cavity
  • Covered-up Hollow
  • Desolate Track
  • Entombed Alcove
  • Forbidden Chamber
  • Forgotten Conduit
  • Narrow Ravine
  • Neglected Cellar
  • Walled-off Ducts
• Doryani's MachinariumDoryani's Machinarium
  Maze MapMap Level: 81
  Map Tier: 14
  Guild Character: ‹
  Item Quantity: +(40-60)%
  Item Rarity: +(40-60)%(20-50)% increased Experience gain
  Found Items have 10% chance to drop Corrupted in Area
  Unique Boss is augmented by Player choicesWe are ever the makers of our own undoing.Travel to this Map by using it in a personal Map Device. Maps can only be used once.
• Path of Exile: Royale

Version history

Version	Changes
Unknown	Introduced to the game. (the wiki article first appear after version 1.2.0 but the closest big patch that related to Vaal was Sacrifice of the Vaal (1.1.0))

See also

• Vaal Arsonist fire version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Thunderguard lightning version of skeleton vaal construct
• Vaal Frost Guardian cold melee version