Arctic Armour

Arctic ArmourBuff, Spell, Persistent, Sustained, Cold, Staged
Tier: 4
Level: (1-40)
Reservation: 30 Spirit
Critical Strike Chance: 11.00%Conjures an icy barrier that gains stages over time. While the barrier has stages, Melee Attacks that hit you will remove a stage to cause a burst of ice that deals Cold Spell damage to the attacker.Deals (7–184) to (10–276) Cold Damage per Stage
Gains a Stage every (1.25-0.73) seconds, up to a maximum of (2–5) Stages

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Gains a Stage every seconds, up to a maximum of (0–1) StagesPlace into a Skill Gem socket to gain this skill.
Sockets are found in the Skills menu tab.

Acquisition
Drop restricted
It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.Metadata
Item class: Skill Gem
Metadata ID: Metadata/Items/Gems/SkillGemArcticArmour

Arctic Armour is a persistent buff skill. It creates an icy barrier that gains stages periodically. Enemies that strike you with a melee hit will remove a stage and deal cold spell damage back at the attacker.

Gem level progression

Level			Cold Damage per Stage	Gains a Stage every x seconds	Maximum stages
1	0	0	3 to 5	1.25	2
2	3	9	5 to 7	1.18	2
3	6	14	6 to 9	1.15	2
4	10	21	8 to 12	1.12	3
5	14	28	10 to 15	1.1	3
6	18	35	13 to 19	1.07	3
7	22	41	15 to 23	1.05	3
8	26	48	18 to 27	1.02	3
9	31	57	22 to 32	—	3
10	36	65	25 to 38	0.97	3
11	41	74	29 to 44	0.95	4
12	46	82	34 to 51	0.93	4
13	52	92	40 to 59	0.9	4
14	58	103	46 to 68	0.88	4
15	64	113	52 to 78	0.85	4
16	66	116	60 to 90	0.82	4
17	72	126	68 to 103	0.8	4
18	78	137	78 to 117	0.78	4
19	84	147	89 to 133	0.75	4
20	90	157	101 to 152	0.72	5

Recommended support gems

The following support gems are recommendations by GGG as listed in-game, and do not necessarily reflect optimal combinations or the views of the wiki.

Gem tier	Support gems
I
II
III		Strong HeartedStrong HeartedSupport, Buff, Persistent Category: Strong Hearted Tier: 3 Additional Reservation: 15 SpiritSupport Requirements: +5 IntSupports Persistent Buff Skills, causing Shock applied to you to last for a shorter duration while the Supported Skill is active.50% less Shock duration on you while a Supported Skill is activePlace into a Skill's Support Gem socket in the Skills Panel to apply its effects to that Skill. You cannot have multiple Support Gems of the same Category socketed within one Skill.

Item acquisition

Arctic Armour has restrictions on where or how it can drop.

It can be obtained by engraving an Uncut Spirit Gem.

Alternate skill effects

Arctic Armour has the following alternate skill effects:

Item	Description

Version history

Version	Changes
0.2.0	Many Skills have had their base damage and/or damage growth per level rebalanced. Most of these changes are not specifically mentioned below as the changes are too widespread. Added Staged tag. [Undocumented]
0.1.0	Introduced to the game.