Chilling Mist

Type

Ashes of War

Default affinity

Cold

FP cost

14 FP

Skill

Chilling Mist

About this Ash of War

This Ash of War grants an armament the Cold affinity and the following skill:

"Chilling Mist: Coat armament in frost, and then slash, spreading frigid mist forwards. The armament retains its frost for a while."

Usable on melee armaments (whips, fists, and claws excepted).

Scarab near the arches south of Renna's Rise

Liurnia of the Lakes

Starting Site of Grace: Royal Moongazing Grounds

1. Reach the western Liurnia road and follow it north through Kingsrealm Ruins. Strike the illusory wall blocking the road at the northern end, then continue past Iji at Road to the Manor.
2. Ride toward the large manor while avoiding the magical strikes falling along the approach. Activate Main Caria Manor Gate grace at the entrance.
3. Inside, follow the courtyard path northwest toward the building in the far corner. Fingercreepers hide among the plants and beneath the ground; do not stop on a buried hand.
4. Enter the building with the seated spirit and climb its stairs to Manor Lower Level grace.
5. Take the elevated walkways east and continue straight along the main route at the first junction. Spectral soldiers appear along the bridges. Reach the far building and take its lift up to Manor Upper Level.
6. Leave the upper grace, pass the wolves in the garden and climb the main stone stairway toward the Troll Knight and sorcerers.
7. Continue up the stairs beyond the troll and Pages to the large circular courtyard. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta, then activate Royal Moongazing Grounds grace.
8. Defeat Royal Knight Loretta in Caria Manor and leave through the arena's rear doorway into Three Sisters.
9. Head west toward the stone arches south of Renna's Rise. Look around the ruined archway for the scarab.
10. Kill it before it escapes to receive Chilling Mist. You do not need to join Ranni or open Renna's tower.

Notes

• The weapon coating lasts 40 seconds. It adds Frostbite buildup rather than adding a separate chunk of magic damage to every ordinary weapon hit.
• You can use the coating on a Cold weapon as well as a supported physical affinity. The skill coating and the weapon's existing Frostbite buildup are separate contributions.
• The mist builds Frostbite while the enemy remains inside it. It is not a cloud of repeated direct weapon hits, and it does not copy every status effect on the weapon.
• The slash creates a lingering frost cloud and coats the weapon with additional Frostbite buildup.
• Keep an enemy in the mist to build frost faster. An enemy that leaves the cloud avoids much of that pressure.
• The coating is a weapon buff and can replace an incompatible grease or spell buff.
• Fire damage removes an existing Frostbite condition, allowing it to be built again. Doing that also gives up the active Frostbite damage-negation penalty until it triggers again.
• Compatible weapon classes: Dagger, Straight Sword, Greatsword, Colossal Sword, Curved Sword, Curved Greatsword, Katana, Twinblade, Thrusting Sword, Heavy Thrusting Sword, Axe, Greataxe, Hammer, Great Hammer, Flail, Spear, Great Spear, Halberd, Reaper, Colossal Weapon, Thrusting Shield, Light Greatsword, Great Katana. A weapon with a fixed skill cannot use this Ash of War.
• Its default affinity is Cold. The supported choices are Standard, Heavy, Keen, Quality, Magic and Cold; the appropriate whetblade is needed for additional options.
• The skill costs 14 FP before equipment that changes FP costs.
• The slash uses the weapon’s attack power and can apply its normal status effects. The cloud is a separate Frostbite effect rather than another full-damage weapon swing.
• Intelligence can improve a Magic or Cold weapon’s damage, but does not increase this fixed added Frost buildup. Arcane also does not increase Frostbite.
• Shard of Alexander improves the damaging slash. Godfrey Icon does not apply because the skill cannot be charged; neither talisman makes the mist’s status buildup larger.
• The coating remains after the cloud disappears, until its 40-second timer ends or another weapon enhancement replaces it. It does not make an unbuffed weapon’s Frostbite permanent.