What's so good about Ice Fan?

[DJTron]

I'm still very new to the game and don't know what abilities are good yet. I keep hearing that ice fan is amazing, but i don't get why. Why use ice fan when you can just winter blast for practically the same thing but better. It does more damage, costs less AP, doesn't hit allies, hits a wider area, and freezes surfaces. Any advice on this and other good skill would be great.

[Kyros]

mages? weaklings.

[Dunder]

I can't remember exactly what status is required for someone to become frozen, if it is Chilled or if Wet is enough...

Anyway, Ice Fan has 3 instances of trying to apply Frozen. Meaning if a target has no current status on them, they will first get chilled, then frozen. However Winter Blast will only apply 1 instance. So a target without any status will just become chilled.

It might even work if a target has a Warm status. As I said, I can't remember exactly, been a while since i played the game.

[DJTron]

Originally posted by Dunder:

I can't remember exactly what status is required for someone to become frozen, if it is Chilled or if Wet is enough...

Anyway, Ice Fan has 3 instances of trying to apply Frozen. Meaning if a target has no current status on them, they will first get chilled, then frozen. However Winter Blast will only apply 1 instance. So a target without any status will just become chilled.

It might even work if a target has a Warm status. As I said, I can't remember exactly, been a while since i played the game.

ok, thanks for clarifying. It seems a lot more useful now

[TheActionAss]

You can also hit 3 seperate people with ice fan and then cast rain to make all 3 freeze at once, assuming their magic armour is gone

[Greenegg]

Originally posted by Dunder:

I can't remember exactly what status is required for someone to become frozen, if it is Chilled or if Wet is enough...

Anyway, Ice Fan has 3 instances of trying to apply Frozen. Meaning if a target has no current status on them, they will first get chilled, then frozen. However Winter Blast will only apply 1 instance. So a target without any status will just become chilled.

It might even work if a target has a Warm status. As I said, I can't remember exactly, been a while since i played the game.

having chiled applied while chilled freezes, and having chilled and wet at the same time freezes (magic armor must be depleted in both cases)

Ice fan is good because it does decent damage, 3 times. Hitting 3 times also means that you have 3 chances to apply frozen, and unlike hailstrike (as far as I can tell they do the same damage) ice fan is far more accurate since you can target each shot individually.

Winter blast is good because it hits a large area and freezes surfaces, but ultimately hits for less total damage and only has 1 chance to freeze.