Glacial Embrace
| Type | Weapon |
|---|---|
| Damage | 48 Summon |
| Knockback | 4.5 (Average) |
| Mana cost | 10 |
| Use time | 24 Slow |
| Tooltip | Summons the power of the ancient ice castle For each minion slot used, you will gain an additional orbiting shield spike These spikes accelerate rapidly towards a nearby enemy to inflict heavy damage They take some time to regenerate after launching themselves at the target, however On right click, summons a duplicate ring around the targeted enemy, which slowly converges before exploding |
| Grants Buff |  Glacial Embrace |
| Buff tooltip | The magic of the ancient ice castle will aid you |
| Inflicts Debuff |  Frostbite100% chance |
| Debuff duration | 5 seconds |
| Debuff tooltip | It's either really hot or really cold. Either way it REALLY hurts |
| Rarity |  |
| Sell | 4  80  |
| Research | 1 required |
Shield Spike
| Dropped by | ||
|---|---|---|
| Entity | Quantity | Rate |
| Cryogen | 1 | 10% |
| Summons Minion |
|---|
| Cryo Shield |
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The Glacial Embrace is a Hardmode summon weapon that is dropped by Cryogen. When used with its primary fire (left-click), it will first encase the player with an icy shield, then with subsequent uses adding one shield spike around it at the cost of a single minion slot. While the ice shield itself does not consume minion slots, it cannot be summoned if the player has no remaining minion slots. Each summoned shield spike will revolve around the shield while moving outwards from it until the spike reaches a set distance where it glows into a deeper shade of blue and is ready to be launched. The fully-charged spike will launch themselves into a nearby enemy or continue orbiting the player otherwise. If the player has at least one shield spike, they can use their secondary fire (right-click) to surround the closest enemy to the cursor with a duplicate ring of spikes, orbiting around and diverge until a set distance when they all launch into the enemy at once.
Its best modifier is Ruthless. The Mythical modifier provides the widest array of stat bonuses, but these primarily affect the initial summon rather than the resulting minion. Additionally, minions cannot deal critical hits. The only lasting advantage a Mythical Glacial Embrace has over a Ruthless one is knockback.
Trivia
- The shield spike is referenced as "GlacialEmbracePointyThing" in the mod's source files.
- The weapon's old name is a reference to the spell card "Cold Divinity", used by the character Cirno from the Touhou Project series.
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History
- 2.0.3.005: Fixed ice spikes not disappearing when the buff is removed.
- 2.0.3.001: Renamed from "Cold Divinity" to "Glacial Embrace".
- 2.0.2.001: Now inflicts Frostbite instead of Frostburn.
- 1.5.1.001:
- Nerfed damage from 60 to 48.
- Now drops from Cryogen in all difficulties instead of Malice Mode. Decreased drop rate from 100%
to 10%. - Fixed a target-locking issue with its ice spikes.
- Fixed it being considered an uncountable minion when using the Summoner's Association Card from Summoner's Association mod.
- 1.5.0.001:
- Decreased mana cost from 20 to 10.
- Now has a use time of 24 instead of 25.
- Now drops from Cryogen in Malice Mode instead of Revengeance Mode. Increased drop rate from 1%
to 100% . - Now has a custom - Legendary Challenge Item - tag that alternates between #3500FF ● and #35FFFF ● instead of a custom rarity.
- 1.4.5.003: No longer benefits twice from minion damage boosts.
- 1.4.5.001:
- Now uses the rarity instead of
. - Decreased sell price from 9 60 to 7 20 .
- Fixed it not displaying the double scaling damage effect in the tooltip.
- Now uses the
- 1.4.4.004: Buffed damage from 52 to 60.
- 1.4.4.001: Introduced.
