Cold

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Cold is one of the most common elemental forces you will encounter as you explore the Dungeon, consisting of ice-themed and otherwise cool attacks.

Cold Damage

Characters have many ways to gain cold damage. Ice Magic is the most evident, but just about any character can use freezing-branded weapons or a wand of iceblast.

Cold damage is reduced by cold resistance (rC+). Cold-blooded creatures, including player Draconians, are slowed by a few specific cold attacks: weapons of freezing, Freeze, Frozen Ramparts, freezing vapours, Ozocubu's Refrigeration. Having rC+ negates being cold-blooded.

Cold Resistance

The cold resistance intrinsic significantly reduces the cold damage you take when attacked:

Resistance Level	Damage Taken (Player)	Damage Taken (Monster)
1	50%	50%
2	33%	20%
3	20%	0%

You can acquire cold resistance from a number of sources:

Item

• Ring of protection from cold and ring of ice: rC+
• Armour of cold resistance: rC+
• Gold dragon scales: rC+
• Ice dragon scales: rC++
• Staff of cold: rC+
• Potion of resistance: rC+, temporary
• Tiamat's dragonskin cloak (50% chance per attack of rC+)
• Randarts: rC+ to rC+++

Character

• Being a white draconian: rC+
• Cold Resistance mutation: rC+/rank
• The third rank of the Shaggy Fur mutation: rC+
• The third rank of the Icy Blue Scales mutation: rC+
• Being a ghoul, mummy, or bloodless vampire: rC+
• Necromutation: rC+
• Ice Form: rC+++

Cold Vulnerability

Cold vulnerability causes you to take x150% normal damage from most cold attacks, and x200% damage from freezing melee attacks. You can acquire it by:

• Wearing a fire dragon scales or ring of fire
• Dragon Form (except for non-red Draconians)
• The Cold Vulnerability mutation.
• Certain unrand artefacts:
  • Amulet of Elemental Vulnerability
  • Salamander hide armour

See Also

List of cold resistant monsters

List of cold vulnerable monsters