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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

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-'''Cold''' is one of the most common elemental forces you will encounter as you explore the [[Dungeon]]. Both players and monsters can take advantage of cold through spells or specially [[brand]]ed weapons, though some monsters also possess innate cold abilities.
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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==
-Cold damage can only be reduced by a character's [[cold resistance]] (rC+) [[intrinsic]]. This is a relatively easy resistance type to acquire, and gaining even a single rank in it cuts damage received by half. With the maximum 3 ranks, you can almost ignore cold damage entirely.
+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]].
-Aside from injury, however, cold damage also has other effects: every time you take cold damage, each [[potion]] in your [[inventory]] is subjected to a small chance of shattering. This can be very costly in areas where cold damage is common, but you can minimize this risk with the [[conservation]] intrinsic (reduces the chance of each potion shattering by 90%) or by storing most of your potions in your [[stash]].
+Cold damage is reduced by cold resistance (rC+). [[Cold-blooded]] creatures, including player [[Draconian]]s, are [[slow]]ed by a few specific cold attacks: weapons of [[freezing]], [[Freeze]], [[Frozen Ramparts]], [[freezing vapour]]s, [[Ozocubu's Refrigeration]]. Having rC+ negates being cold-blooded.
-Although this does not affect player characters, [[cold-blooded]] monsters may become [[slow]] for several turns when they take cold damage from one of these sources: weapons of [[freezing]], [[Freeze]] and [[Ozocubu's Refrigeration]]; reducing their attack speed and making them easy to outrun.
-==Cold Sources==
-It is relatively easy for characters to gain access to sources of cold damage. Almost any character type can benefit from common [[freezing]]-branded weapons, which deal additional cold damage on top of their normal physical damage. Ranged weapon-users can instead use [[frost]] missiles; these do 100% of their normal damage as cold damage.
-Zapping a [[wand of frost]] or [[wand of cold]] allows almost any character to inflict cold damage at range, softening up threats from a distance or killing them outright. Some [[rods]] and other evocable items also have cold damage options available, usually with greater damage potential but at a greater cost.
-The [[Ice Magic]] school is also available to [[ice elementalist]]s or any character with [[Spellcasting]] capabilities and an appropriate [[book]]. This school is less devoted to direct offense then [[Fire Magic]], offering a variety of utility and defense spells as well.
 ==Cold Resistance==
-The cold resistance intrinsic significantly reduces the cold damage you take when attacked, as shown on the chart below:
+The cold resistance intrinsic significantly reduces the cold damage you take when attacked:
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 You can acquire cold resistance from a number of sources:
+'''Item'''
+*[[Ring of protection from cold]] and [[ring of ice]]: rC+
+*Armour of [[ego|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+)
+*[[Randart]]s: rC+ to rC+++
+'''Character'''
+*Being a white [[draconian]]: rC+
 *[[Good mutations#Cold Resistance|Cold Resistance]] [[mutation]]: rC+/rank
 *The third rank of the [[Good mutations#Shaggy Fur|Shaggy Fur]] mutation: rC+
 *The third rank of the [[Good mutations#Icy Blue Scales|Icy Blue Scales]] mutation: rC+
-*[[Ice dragon hide]] and [[ice dragon armour]]: rC++
+*Being a [[ghoul]], [[mummy]], or bloodless [[vampire]]: rC+
-*[[Gold dragon hide]] and [[gold dragon armour]]: rC+
-*Armour of [[ego|cold resistance]]: rC+
-*[[Staff of cold]]: rC+
-*[[Ring of protection from cold]] or [[ring of ice]]: rC+
-*[[Tiamat]]'s [[dragonskin cloak]] (50% chance per attack of rC+)
-*[[Randart]]s: rC+ or rC++
-*[[Potion of resistance]]
-*Being a [[ghoul]], [[mummy]], or thirsty [[vampire]] character: rC+
-*Being a near bloodless or bloodless vampire: rC++
 *[[Necromutation]]: rC+
 *[[Ice Form]]: rC+++
 ===Cold Vulnerability===
-Cold vulnerability causes you to take 150% normal damage from cold attacks, but is thankfully less common. You can acquire it by:
+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 hide]], [[fire dragon armour]], or [[ring of fire]]
-*[[Ring of Flames]] or [[Dragon Form]]
+*Wearing a [[fire dragon scales]] or [[ring of fire]]
+*[[Dragon Form]] (except for non-red [[Draconian]]s)
+*The Cold Vulnerability [[mutation]].
+*Certain [[unrand]] artefacts:
+**{{Unrandlink|Amulet of Elemental Vulnerability}}
+**{{Unrandlink|Salamander hide armour}}
 ==See Also==