Cold blooded

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Creatures with the cold blooded blood temperature are unique only in that they are particularly vulnerable to certain cold attacks. They have a 50% chance of being slowed when they are damaged by any of the following cold sources:

• Freezing-branded melee attacks
• Freeze
• Ozocubu's Refrigeration
• Freezing Cloud

They are also more strongly affected by Metabolic Englaciation, remaining slowed for twice as long.

Notably Hydras are cold-blooded monster. As a melee character, if you don't have a slicing flaming weapon to deal with them, another good strategy is using a non-slicing cold weapon to slow them.

For the late game, Draconians which are populating the Realm of Zot are also cold-blooded. This can mean that the freezing brand is sometimes preferable to the flaming brand later on.

For a list of cold-blooded monsters, see Category:Cold-blooded.