Cold Snap (512)

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Cold Snap (512) Mnemonic [COLDSNAP] Duration (margin / 5) + 3, min 8s, max 25s Mana Cost 10 Attack Magic - Disabling   Subtype Warding  Target(s) Ungrouped, base 4 targets  State(s) Inflicted Rooted, Immobilized

Major Elemental Spells Sleep (501) Attack Chromatic Circle (502) Attack Thurfel's Ward (503) Defensive Slow (504) Attack Hand of Tonis (505) Attack Celerity (506) Utility Elemental Deflection (507) Defensive Elemental Bias (508) Defensive Strength (509) Offensive Hurl Boulder (510) Attack Floating Disk (511) Utility Cold Snap (512) Attack Elemental Focus (513) Offensive Stone Fist (514) Attack Rapid Fire (515) Utility Mana Leech (516) Utility Charge Item (517) Utility Cone of Elements (518) Attack Immolation (519) Attack Mage Armor (520) Defensive Meteor Swarm (525) Attack Elemental Disjunction (530) Attack Haste (535) Utility Temporal Reversion (540) Defensive Time Stop (550) Utility

Cold Snap is an open cast warding spell that causes targets to become rooted. The root status effect causes a target to have -50 attack strength (AS) to melee attacks, -25 AS to ranged attacks, and -25 defensive strength (DS) (but does not stack with the DS penalties from other status conditions such as being knocked down). Most importantly, rooted creatures cannot perform maneuvers. The spell will affect a base of up to 4 targets, increasing with training in Elemental Lore, Water. The duration of the root is (warding margin / 5) + 3, minimum of 8 seconds and maximum of 25 seconds.

Casting the spell a second time will completely encase any already affected target that fails to ward in an ice block, immobilizing them and refreshing the duration. Targets encased in ice will have a chance, based on Elemental Lore, Water, to shatter when an applicable bolt spell is CHANNELled.

If an affected target receives any fire damage (i.e. from 906, 908, 111, etc), the effect ends (since it's melting the ice) and the target receives a steam critical, similar to how trolls react to fire.

If a target is drenched from Minor Water (903 or 518) soaking, or if the spell is cast in a watery room, the affected target(s) suffer -25 penalty to target defense (TD).

Non-corporeal targets are better able to defend against the spell, and thus receive a TD bonus of creature level/10. Creatures that are made of fire or emanate heat are immune to Cold Snap.

Usage

• PREP 512 | CAST or INCANT 512 to cast this spell against anything not grouped to the caster, attempting to root all targets. For INCANT, a target must be visible in the room
  
  
• PREP 512 | CAST or INCANT 512 to attempt to immobilize all targets that are rooted, but targets that were not rooted on the first cast will be warded first
• PREP 512 | EVOKE to cast the spell against those that have already been rooted first (for second cast)
  
  
• INCANT 512 OPEN to open cast this spell once using INCANT (when a target is not visible)
• INCANT 512 EVOKE to evoke this spell once using INCANT

Lore Benefits

Training in Elemental Lore, Water provides three benefits:

Increased Targets

Water Lore increases the possible number of targets by +1 per seed 5 summation of ranks.

Elemental Lore, Water ranks	0	5	11	18	26	35	45	56	68	81
Possible targets	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Elemental Lore, Water ranks		95	110	126	143	161	180	200	221	243
Possible targets		14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22

Shattering

If a target is encased in ice (i.e., failed Cold Snap warding twice) and the caster CHANNELs a bolt that causes a rank 5+ impact (505(?), 510, 1709) critical, there is a (Water Lore skill bonus / 3) chance that the injury location will shatter, completely destroying it and causing 50% of the target's max health in concussion damage.

Elemental Lore, Water ranks	1	3	6	9	13	17	20	25	30	38	50
Chance for shattering	1%	3%	10%	15%	20%	25%	30%	35%	40%	45%	50%
Elemental Lore, Water ranks		65	80	95	110	125	140	155	170	185	200
Chance for shattering		55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	95%	100%

Not all thresholds shown

Minor Cold (1709)

Water Lore training makes it possible to cast Minor Water (903) at the target, which will be converted to Minor Cold (1709), for a number of casts equivalent to the bonus level of a seed 10 summation of ranks, while still costing 3 mana.

Elemental Lore, Water ranks	10	21	33	46	60	75	91	108	126	145	165	186	208	231
Casts of Minor Water converted to Minor Cold	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14

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Alchemy Recipes

A translucent pale blue dust
Eastern version	Western version
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Resources

• Elemental lore review (saved posts)