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 slash enemies for 22% damage and have a 40% chance to make them Vulnerable for 2 seconds. Lucky Hit Chance: 15% Damage: Cold Damage 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	Utility	Cold damage is increased by 15.0 - 20.0% and makes enemies Vulnerable for 4 seconds. Helm, Chest, Gloves, Boots, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer, Rogue, Necromancer
Battle Caster's Aspect	Offensive	Lucky Hit: Conjuration damage has up to a 15% chance to increase its damage by 5.0 - 6.5% and Lucky Hit Chance by 2.5% [+] for 8 seconds, stacking up to 10 times. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	Sorcerer
Everliving Aspect	Defensive	Each Crowd Controlled enemy Nearby grants 2.0 - 3.0% Damage Reduction, up to 13 enemies. Helm, Chest, Pants, Shield, Amulet (+50%)	N/A	Extraction	All
Storm Swell Aspect	Offensive	You deal 15 - 35% [x] increased damage while Ice Armor is active. This amount is increased by another 0% [x] against Frozen (CC) enemies. Gloves, Offhand, 1H Weapon, 2H Weapon (+100%), Ring, Amulet (+50%)	Onyx Hold	Dry Steppes	Sorcerer

Unique Items

Paingorger's Gauntlets Armor: 600 Armor 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 - 125]% [x] increased damage.

Paragon Glyphs

	Conjurer Glyph Class: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Intelligence within range, Conjuration Skills gain +3.0% increased damage.	Additional Bonus: Conjuration Skills have 15% increased Critical Hit Chance. Required (purchased in range): +40 Intelligence Legendary Bonus: Increase Conjuration Skill damage by x2.8%.
	Elementalist Glyph Class: Sorcerer Bonus: Grants +25% bonus to all Rare nodes within range.	Additional Bonus: Dealing Fire, Cold, or Lightning damage to an enemy increases all damage you deal to them by x5% for 10 seconds, stacking once per Element. Required (purchased in range): +40 Intelligence Legendary Bonus: Increase Non-Physical damage by x0.5%.
	Invocation Glyph Class: Sorcerer Bonus: For every 5 Dexterity purchased within range, your Conjuration Skills gain +7.9% Critical Strike Damage.	Additional Bonus: Enemies damaged by your Conjuration Skills deal 1% reduced damage to you for 6 seconds, stacking up to 15%. Required (purchased in range): +25 Dexterity Legendary Bonus: Increase Conjuration Skill damage by x2.8%.
	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