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==Useful Info==
'''Ice beasts''' are one of the more threatening early game creatures. Their icy bodies are resistant to [[cold]] and [[poison]], and their attacks can deal a significant amount of cold damage with each hit. Fortunately, they are vulnerable to fire. They are occasionally found in the early [[Dungeon]], showing up as early as D:5 or 6, and they can be summoned by [[ice statue]]s or the [[unique]] elf ice mage [[Fannar]].

Players can use the spell [[Summon Ice Beast]] to call an ice beast into existence to fight for them.

==Tips & Tricks==
*Ice beasts introduce new players to the danger of elementally-charged attacks - their [[cold]] damage bypasses AC. Melee characters should show more caution than usual around these creatures, softening them up at a distance if possible.
**Note that, while the cold damage itself bypasses AC, the physical attack does not. If an ice beast does 0 damage with its physical hit, it is unable to deal any "additional cold damage". High AC characters have less to fear, and low AC characters, more.
*Their immunity to cold and poison can be a problem for some characters. Characters who have been kiting dangerous foes with poison or curare [[dart]]s will suddenly find that trick useless.
**The best spell that [[Ice Elementalist]]s have is Summon Ice Beast itself. When you're fighting ice beasts, Summon Ice Beast will be a bit hard to cast, but it does the job. [[Hailstorm]] (if found) can work, though it doesn't hit targets at melee range.
*If you have a [[wand of flame]], now's not a bad time to use it.
*If you don't have any good means of fighting an ice beast, then don't fight an ice beast -- a [[wand of polymorph]] is a good choice to change them into something more manageable.
*Ultimately, it might not be a bad idea to just avoid ice beasts until you're ready to deal with them. Not killing one rare enemy here and there will hardly leave you underleveled.

==History==
*Prior to [[0.29]], you could make ice beast [[skeleton]]s.
*Prior to [[0.27]], creatures made of ice (such as ice beasts) were completely immune to [[Hailstorm]].

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