Ice Blades

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

Grants Player	Exploits Condition
Cold Dmg	Vulnerable
Vulnerable
Conjuration
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 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's Cooldown is reduced by 0.5 seconds each time it hits a Vulnerable enemy.	Roaring Ice Blades 20% of Enhanced Ice Blades's 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 (CC) an enemy there is a 25 - 45% 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	Lucky Hit: When your Conjuration Skills hit you have up to a 25 - 45% chance to gain +1 Rank to your Conjuration skills for 12 seconds. This can stack up to 5 times. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Everliving Aspect	Defensive	You take 10 - 30% less damage from Crowd Controlled or Vulnerable enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Storm Swell Aspect	Offensive	You deal 15 - 35% [x] increased damage while Ice Armor is active. This amount is increased by another 15% against Frozen (CC) enemies. 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: Unique Gloves Class: All Classes Description: Damaging enemies with a Non-Basic Skill cast 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 [100 - 200]%[x] increased damage.

Affixes: +[7.0 - 9.0]% Attack Speed +[2 - 4] to Basic Skills [6.0 - 8.0]% Cooldown Reduction Lucky Hit: Up to a +[13.5 - 22.5]% Chance to Stun (CC) for 2 Seconds

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	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand
Ranks to Ice Blades [2 -3]
Core Skill Damage [12.5 - 19.5%]
Core Skill Damage [25 - 39%]
Frost Skill Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]
Damage to Chilled Enemies [7 - 14%]
Damage to Chilled Enemies [14 - 28%]
Damage to Frozen Enemies [9.5 - 16.5%]
Damage to Frozen Enemies [19 - 33%]
Cold Damage [10.5 - 17.5%]
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [5 - 12%]
Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [10 - 24%]
Crowd Control Duration [5 - 12%]
Staff: Damage to Crowd Controlled Enemies [35%]
Vulnerable Damage [9.8 - 19.6%]
Vulnerable Damage [19.6 - 39.2%]
Attribute	Amulet	Ring	Helm	Chest	Gloves	Weap 1H	Weap 2H	Off-Hand

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%.