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Arcane Ice Storm is an Arcane Enhancement for Warframes that grants
Ability Strength and 
Ability Duration when an enemy is frozen from 10 
Cold stacks, stacking up to 20x.
Effect[]
| Rank | Ability Strength Buff | Ability Duration Buff | Length | Stacks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 10 |
| 1 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 12 |
| 2 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 14 |
| 3 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 16 |
| 4 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 18 |
| 5 | 2% | 2% | 15s | 20 |
Acquisition
Arcane Ice Storm can be obtained from Ascension's optional Sister of Parvos, summoned by acquiring 3 Sister Beacons during the elevator ride. Alternatively it can be purchased from Ordis in the Drifter's Camp for 10 
Vestigial Motes, for a total of 210 for max rank.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
Sisters of Parvos (Ascension Hard Mode) | 20% | ~ 5 Kills | 30 ± 10 Kills |
|
Sisters of Parvos (Ascension Mode) | 6.60% | ~ 15 Kills | 101 ± 33 Kills |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables.
See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Notes[]
- Companion weapons do not trigger this arcane.
- All stacks are removed when the duration runs out. All stacks are refreshed upon freezing an enemy.
Tips[]
- Effects that rapidly apply 10
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Cold stacks include:
Frost's 
Freeze's direct hit- Frost's
Snow Globe's activation while within its range - Frost's
Avalanche 
Gauss' 
Thermal Sunder double cast (Helminth subsumable) or with 
Redline active
Voruna's 
Fangs of Raksh (applies 5 random status effects which may include Cold)
Lavos's 
Vial Rush (Helminth subsumable)
Itzal's 
Cosmic Crush with 
Cold Snap augment
- Enemies are not "frozen" by:
Patch History[]
Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)
- Introduced.
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14 comments
Use epitaph for easy refresh of this.
"All stacks are refreshed upon freezing an enemy."
Unclear wording. If it has NOT timed out, it will refresh all stacks. Otherwise you are back to zero.
Companion weapons do not trigger this arcane.
I'm out
Yeah, I hope they'll update this and let companion trigger the effect
You can still use your pet to proc it if you run sickening pulse, so you won't have to have cold damage on your weapons. If the procs are at 10 already when using the ability, you won't proc the arcane, but it's still very easy to keep maxed out by multiplying lower counts of cold procs.
I run verglas+duplex bond+shivering contagion on my sentinel, and sickening pulse on dagath.
Alternatively, you can run a hound with repo audit and/or aerial/synergised prospectus, while adding the cold effect to those abilities via manifold bond - then multiplying the low amount of cold procs with sickening pulse.
Why doesn't it trigger from companion weapons? Primary Frostbite does and I'm assuming Secondary Shiver and Cascadia Flare do too. Hopefully will be fixed in the future
It dosnt work on companions BUT
will Tornado that is hit with companions cold trigger it ? aka will the cold proc from someone else be converted to "my" cold proc via the tornado (including cold from companions) ?
So fun to use with Voruna's 2nd ability, just spam 2nd with Roar on 4th (Precision Intensify) for double dip.
Why no Arcane Revive?
I really wish this was stack timeout instead of all or nothing because 15 seconds is so damn annoying to keep up, but for +40% strength AND duration in an arcane slot I guess it needs some kind of downside.
I thought this was solely for Gauss at the first glance because Frost doesn't need that much duration, however the requirement condition is generous than I thought.
Easier than Molt Augmented to gather strength and less microcontrol is required than Molt Vigor. Just 1 or 2 235~280 range Avalanches then bam.
Hail the Emperor of everfrost.
Frost likes duration now as it directly influences his bonus freeze duration to lock enemies down.
Yea I'm really glad they finally got around to fixing that YEARS later, fuck, a DECADE later
This arcane was perfect for my frost with 3 tau red, 2 tau blue.
I get 324% on the Freeze skill + 48k overguard.
Add nourish and you get 2.99x energy recovery. enemies are frozen for 20 seconds on skill 1 and 12 seconds on skill 4.
i've never had so much fun with frost
The King in the North is back.
Gauss don't need more than 100% strength and glaxion is mid, there are several better weapons to deal damage than just buffing your frame strength, besides that cold is just CC, you won't cause harmBesides, cold is just CC, you won't cause any damageBesides, cold is just CC, you won't do any damage in SP missions lmao
I'm more convinced now you haven't actually messed around with anything at all.
Not every mission in this game is end game, so you can use whatever you want in these missions as they don't require much effort
Doesn't take a huge amount of effort to make things work on SP either. Might want to give it a proper shot yourself.
Cold is good for crit status hybrid builds because of the bonus effects in addition to the slow.
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Doesnt seem to proc with enemies that can only have 4 stacks of cold
Matter of fact it doesnt proc at all with that kind of enemies (eximus, bosses and others)
It can proc on eximus units if you remove their overguard.
Essentially, freezes (and their associated benefits) only happen at 10 cold stacks specifically, not just max cold stacks, so anything with lowered debuff stack maximums is immune to freezing, and thus can't trigger this arcane.
I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think Demolishers are another example, still having a cap of 9 cold procs to prevent completely immobilizing them.
Surprisingly very easy to proc with Gauss, and he can always use more duration. Then with his Thermal Sunder he can consume all the cold status effects and simply reapply them to enemies to keep this rolling for as long as he has energy to burn.
Procs with warframe and weapons
How exactly does this trigger ? abilities/weapons/status transfer and or status multiply effects ?
Can my companions trigger this ?
what about ally that i buff with cold damage ?
What if enemy already has 10 cold procs, will applying additional cold proc myself trigger it ?
Cant retrigger on frozen enemies either, only if they lose 1 cold stack and you freeze them again
Hmm so companion should not have cold status then i guess which is quite bad and counterproductive considering Momentous Bond exists,... hopefully cedo will be enough to keep it full at higher dificulty content where it matters, or maybe bringing secondary with cold just for that ...
Probably took away interaction because Shivering Contagion is busted on sentinels, Rip Momentous Bond
New meta riven mods -status duration +status chance +cold +multishot +speed lol pretty sure tahts too many stats but theres a nieche build somewhere =)