Ice Shards

Ice Shards is a Sorcerer skill from the Core skill tree. Its features are:

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Cold Dmg	Frozen
Vulnerable	Barrier
Core
Frost

'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 Shards Launch 5 shards that deal 25% damage each. Deals x 25% increased damage to Frozen enemies. Mana Cost: 30 Enchantment Slot Effect Ice Shards automatically conjure and fly towards Frozen enemies. Damage: Cold Lucky Hit Chance: 16% Tags: Core, Frost

* Ice Shards does not chill.

Upgrades

Enhanced Ice Shards Ice Shards have a 40% chance to ricochet to another enemy. Ice Shards always ricochet off of Frozen enemies.	Greater Ice Shards While you have a Barrier active, Ice Shards always receives its bonuses against Frozen enemies.
	Destructive Ice Shards Hitting an enemy with 5 Ice Shards in a single cast makes them Vulnerable for 2 seconds.

Items that work with Ice Shards

The following items either:

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

Legendary Aspects

Accelerating Aspect	Offensive	Critical Strikes with Core skills increase your Attack Speed by 15 - 25% for 5 seconds. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	All
Aspect of Efficiency	Resource	Casting a Basic Skill reduces the Mana cost of your next Core Skill by 10 - 20%. Ring	Domhainne Tunnels (Map)	Scosglen	Sorcerer
Aspect of Piercing Cold	Offensive	Ice Shards pierce 3 - 4 times, dealing 20 - 25% less damage per subsequent enemy hit. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Dead Man's Dredge (Map)	Fractured Peaks	Sorcerer
Aspect of the Expectant	Offensive	After Attacking enemies with a Basic skill, increase the damage of your next Core skill cast within 5 seconds by x 5 - 10%, up to x 30%. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Underroot (Map)	Codex of Power	All
Elementalist's Aspect	Offensive	Core or Mastery skills cast at or above 100 Mana gain a 20 - 40% increased Critical Strike Chance. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Pallid Delve (Map)	Dry Steppes	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

	Banished Lord's Talisman "His name has been lost to history, but to have been exiled from a land as cursed as Hawezar, his deeds must have been truly depraved." - Scholar's Notes Type: Amulet Class: All Description: After you spend 275 of your Primary Resource, your next Core Skill is guaranteed to Overpower. Your Critical Strikes that Overpower deal %[x] increased damage.	Affixes: + % Critical Strike Chance + % Overpower Damage + % Resource Generation + # Ranks of all Core Skills
	Melted Heart of Selig "Do not allow your passions to become obsessions. Fuel the fire that burns within you, but it is madness to allow yourself to become ash to please an uncaring universe." - Last words of Master Selig Type: Amulet - Uber Unique Class: All Description: Gain 60 Maximum Resource. 75% of incoming damage drains 2 Resource for every 1% of Life you would have lost instead.	Affixes: + Resistance to All Elements + All Stats + Core Skill Damage + Damage while Healthy Resource Regeneration
	Mother's Embrace "Every tome, every scroll, every book in this temple produces the same answer. The only being willing to stand against the Eternal Conflict, against the Prime Evils, was Lilith." - Elias Type: Ring Class: All Description: If a Core Skill hits 4 or more enemies, 30% - 50% of the Resource cost is refunded.	Affixes: + % Resist All + % Shadow Resistance + # All Stats + % Maximum Life + % Critical Strike Damage
	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
	Ring of Starless Skies "Yours is the power to pluck the stars from the heavens with the ease of a child gathering fruit from the bough." - Unknown Type: Ring - Uber Unique Class: All Description: Spending resources reduces your resource costs and increases your damage by x10% for 3 seconds, up to 40%.	+ % All Resistances Affixes: + % Lucky Hit Chance + % Critical Strike Chance + % Critical Strike Damage + % Core Skill Damage
	Staff of Endless Rage "Leaving even blackened bones for your kin to mourn is too good an end for you." - Josiah Type: Staff Class: Sorcerer Description: Every 3rd cast of Fireball launches 2 additional projectiles and deals x 20 - 40% increased damage.	+ % Damage to Crowd Controlled enemies Affixes: + % Fire Damage + % Core Skill Damage + % Damage to Close Enemies + 1 - 2 Ranks to Inner Flames Passive
	Tal Rasha's Iridescent Loop "Fool said he dug it out of the sands near Lut Gholem with a few other worthless trinkets. I hid my delight at receiving such as treasure in exchange for a meager handful of coins" - Rakhaan Type: Ring Class: Sorcerer Description: For each type of elemental damage you deal, gain [X] 14% increased damage for 4 seconds. Dealing Elemental damage refreshes all bonuses. (Sorcerer Only)	+ % Resistance to All Elements + % Resistance to All Elements Affixes: + % Non-Physical Damage + % Lucky Hit Chance + % Resource Generation + % Cooldown Reduction

Paragon Glyphs

	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.
	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)

Item Affixes

The following Affixes are particularly useful with Ice Shards

Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H
Ranks to Ice Shards [2 -3]				✔
Core Skill Damage [12.5 - 19.5%]					✔
Core Skill Damage [25 - 39%]						✔
Frost Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]	✔		✔
Cold Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]		✔	✔
Staff: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [35%]						✔
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]		✔			✔
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]						✔
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H

Changes to Ice Shards

There have been no changes made to Ice Shards.