Icy Dragon Sword Question

Sir Galdarion

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Mar 2007

W/Mo

Are they really actually good or just rare, what i'm asking is are they worth the $, are they actually good or do they cost that money because they are rare?

holababe

holababe

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Dec 2006

Goon Squad [LLJK]

Mo/

They're rare. You can add mods to them to make an IDS as good as any other sword.

They only drop from Ice Imps, which makes them fairly hard to get

Neo Nugget

Neo Nugget

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jan 2006

R/

but you cant change the icy mod on it.

Kong

Kong

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Oct 2005

To clarify what they are saying about it's mods....

All Icy Dragon Swords are blue items, they are like collector items.

They do Cold Damage, are max damage 15-22, Req 9 Swordsmanship, and have +15% damage while your health is above 50%.

The only thing you can do to it is customize it to add +20% damage and add a pommel of your choice.

They are only obtained in one location of the game. In the far North East corner of Mineral Springs, in the Southern Shiverpeaks, there is a cave full of Ice Imps. It is these Ice Imps that drop the IDS (Icy Dragon Sword), no other Ice Imps.

savage vapor 33

savage vapor 33

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Nov 2006

Regems Basement

The Malevolent Wolfpack [tMw]

They are considered rare, but you can get better weapons in the game imo, Skin wise.

I'm pretty sure there are solo builds for the Ice Imps. Might wanna take a look at that on wiki i think?? I could be wrong.

Commander Ryker

Site Contributor

Join Date: Jun 2005

R/

They are also good to have if you have a ss necro because you need cold damage.

Gaia_Hunter

Academy Page

Join Date: Oct 2006

They look pretty good, and you will always draw the attention of someone that never saw one of those.

Not particularly good, but not that bad either, nice for swaping with vampiric weapon of yours.

One of those items for collectors.

BogusDude

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Mar 2006

MARA

R/

Soloable but not as easy as it used to be as the groups of avicara camp outside the cave on alot of spawns now and can be very frustrating

bart

bart

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

looks nice but all swords are the same baseline dmg wise

Mesmer in Need

Mesmer in Need

Forge Runner

Join Date: Mar 2006

[ToA]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Commander Ryker
They are also good to have if you have a ss necro because you need cold damage.
you can get this other ways, but it does come ready made for this situation.

Its a unique skin and it looks cool, but its not really any better damagewise or anything to any other sword.

Painbringer

Painbringer

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2006

Minnesota

Black Widows of Death

W/Mo

What is the going rate on these?

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

I say around 25k max, I wouldn't pay more than 20k. I rather have ebon mod instead of icy mod.

GourangaPizza

GourangaPizza

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2006

R/W

^ you must have not noticed, but it has rocket to 30-40k now. As someone who had posted earlier, farming for IDS is much more difficult than ever due to the avicara mobs and the runs are just not really profitible.

Etta

Etta

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

Mancland, British Empire

Um,..maybe you're right, I only saw that 20-25k pricing in Keinerg Eng 1, Eu server. That was few weeks ago. My apology.

SNIEVES

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Sep 2006

Dumfries, Virginia, USA

Happy guild moor

R/

so can you add 20/20 to it with out daminging the sword, and if so what is the name of the mod or inscription needed, cause i got 1 req 9, 15 ^ 50, + 30.

thks

Bowstring Badass

Bowstring Badass

Forge Runner

Join Date: Nov 2005

Character selection screen figuring what I want to play...

Purple Lingerie - :D

No you can't add 20/20 to it.

Enko

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jun 2006

VA

Mo/

Quote:
Originally Posted by SNIEVES
so can you add 20/20 to it with out daminging the sword, and if so what is the name of the mod or inscription needed, cause i got 1 req 9, 15 ^ 50, + 30.
You can't add Prefix mods to the IDS