Ice Shards

This article is about the elementalist skill. For the Bjora Marches object, see Ice Shard. For the Super Adventure Box object, see Ice Shard (Super Adventure Box).

Fire three ice shards at your foe. — In-game description

Ice Shards

Profession

Elementalist (skill list)

Weapon

Scepter

Attunement

Water

Game link

API

5693

“

0.75¾  

Ice Shards

Fire three ice shards at your foe.

 Damage (3x): 441 (1.2)^?

 Damage (3x): 177 (0.48)^?

 Range: 900

— In-game description

Notes

• Attack speed is approximately 0.83 seconds per attack.^{[verification requested]}
• Shards make arcing curves when travelling, allowing them to occasionally bypass terrain that obstruct normal projectiles.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
June 25, 2024	Increased the power coefficient per hit from 0.24 to 0.4 in PvE only.
November 29, 2022	Reduced aftercast by 170 milliseconds.
February 25, 2020	Competitive content update: (Competitive split) Reduced power coefficient per strike from 0.24 to 0.16.
April 19, 2016	The damage applied by this skill has been increased by 33%.
September 25, 2012	Fixed bugs with Flamestrike and Ice Shards so they can't be fired behind the player.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Ice Shards has been added to the game.

Trivia

• During development in 2010, this skill's description was: "Hold and release to hit your enemy with freezing shards of ice."
  • It used 18 and had a recharge time of 8 .