Ice Blades

Cold Dmg	Vulnerable
Vulnerable
Conjuration
Frost

Ice Blades is a Sorcerer skill from the Conjuration skill tree. Its features are:

'Creates Condition' means this skill creates this condition i.e it could make a target Vulnerable that other skills can take advantage of. 'Exploits Condition' means this skill takes advantage of a condition, not necessarily of its own making. So for example another skill might Stun and this skill could take advantage of that.

Ice Blades

Conjure a pair of ice blades for 6.0 seconds that rapidly slashes enemies for 22% damage and have a 40% chance to make them Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Cooldown: 16 seconds.

Enchantment Slot Effect

For every 40 seconds in Cooldowns you spend, you spawn an Ice Blades on a random enemy.

Damage: Cold

Lucky Hit Chance: 15%

Tags: Conjuration, Frost

Upgrades

Enhanced Ice Blades

Ice Blades' Cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds each time it hits a Vulnerable enemy.

Summoned Ice Blades

20% of Enhanced Ice Blades' Cooldown reduction is applied to your other skills.

Invoked Ice Blades

Your Ice Blades gain 10% increased Attack Speed per active Ice Blades.

* Vulnerable enemies take 20% increased damage.

Items that work with Ice Blades

The following items either:

Grant a bonus when using Ice Blades
Create a condition Ice Blades can exploit
Exploit a condition Ice Blades creates

Legendary Aspects

Aspect of Biting Cold	Offensive	When you Freeze an enemy there is a 25 - 35% chance they become Vulnerable for 3 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Forgotten Depths (Map)	Dry Steppes	Sorcerer
Battle Caster's Aspect	Offensive	When your Conjuration skills hit you have up to a 30 - 40% chance to gain +1 Rank to your Conjuration skills for 12 seconds. This can stack up to 3 times. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Everliving Aspect	Defensive	You take 20 - 25% less damage from Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Storm Swell Aspect	Offensive	You deal 21 - 30% increased damage to Vulnerable enemies while you have a Barrier. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Onyx Hold (Map)	Dry Steppes	Sorcerer

Unique Items

Paingorger's Gauntlets

Crafted from fragments of Duriel's carapace, wearing these gloves, or being struck by them, causes an agonizing sensation akin to pushing one's hands through a thousand shards of glass.

Type: Gloves
Class: All

Description: Damaging enemies with a cast Non–Basic Skill marks them for 3 seconds. When a Basic Skill first hits a marked enemy, the Basic Skill’s damage is echoed to all marked enemies, dealing x 100 – 200% increased damage.

Affixes:

+ % Critical Strike Chance
+ % Attack Speed
+ 8 - 14 All Stats
+ % Basic Skill Damage

Paragon Glyphs


	Conjurer Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence within range, Conjuration Skills gain + 3% (lvl 1) - 15% (lvl 21) increased damage.	Additional Bonus: Conjuration Skills have a 20% increased duration. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Elementalist Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: Paragon nodes within range gain + 15% (lvl 1) - 75% (lvl 21) bonus to their Non-physical damage and damage reduction modifiers.	Additional Bonus: Dealing Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to an enemy increases all damage you deal to them by x 5% for 10 seconds, stacking once per element. Requirements: 40 Intelligence (in radius range)
	Invocation Rare: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, your Conjuration Skills gain + 8% (lvl 1) - 28% (lvl 21) Critical Strike Damage.	Additional Bonus: Enemies damaged by your Conjuration Skills deal 1% reduced damage to you for 6 seconds, stacking up to 15%. Requirements: 25 Dexterity (in radius range)
	Subdue Magic: Barbarian / Druid / Necromancer / Rogue / Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity (Barb/Druid/Necro/Sorc) / Intelligence (Rogue) purchased within range, you gain + 0.8% increased damage to Vulnerable targets.

Item Affixes

The following Affixes are particularly useful with Ice Blades


Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Weap 1H	Weap 2H
Ranks to Ice Blades [2 -3]			✔
Ranks to All Conjuration Skills [1 - 2]	✔
Conjuration Skill Damage [14 - 28%]	✔			✔
Frost Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]	✔			✔
Cold Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔		✔
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]		✔			✔
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]						✔
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Weap 1H	Weap 2H

Changes to Ice Blades

Patch 1.1.0a, July 18, 2023

Cast clean up has been tightened, allowing players to act after its cast sooner.

Patch 1.0.3, June 27, 2023

Chance to apply Vulnerable increased from 30% to 40%. [[Category:Sorcerer