Risia Ice Games

The Risia Ice Games is around from time to time and may seem a bit daunting at first to understand what recipes, ice coins and motes are all for, but you’ll be an expert in about 3 minutes!

The coins (white, blue and purple) can be turned in to collectors for motes and recipes, then forged at the ice altar in the harbor next to the lighthouse.

Weapon Upgrades

Easily the most popular use for recipes and motes, the weapon upgrades can really make a difference in your overall DPS! Note: This only seems to work on randomly generated weapons (so nothing with a proper name aside from) and Devout Handwraps. Your Green Steel and raid loot weapons are excluded. Going rate on Sarlona as of 4/23/2010 for an Icy Burst kit (Recipes 3/20, 4/20, 5/20 and 300 motes) was going for about 65k.

1. Recipe 3/20 + 100 motes + your weapon will get you Cold Touch = 1 point of cold damage
2. Recipe 4/20 + 100 motes + your recipe 3 weapon will get you Frost = 1d6 points of cold damage instead of the 1 point from 3/20
3. Recipe 5/20 + 100 motes + your recipe 4 weapon will get you Icy Burst = 1d6 points of cold damage & more based on your multiplier during a crit (try this on weapons like scimitars/kukuri when paired with Improved Critical!)

Eternal Wands

Hardly anyone seems to want these. Anyone I’ve spoken to doesn’t use the ones they have, favoring the eternal wands they got with their veteran characters if at all.

• Recipe 1/20 + 50 motes + Festival Twig = Eternal Wand of Ray of Frost
• Recipe 2/20 + 50 motes + Recipe 1/20 Wand = +1 Caster Level to Wand

Glaciation

If you use cold-based spells, these will interest you. Weapon must be random.

Listed as following: Lesser Glaciation/Glaciation/Improved Glaciation/Greater Glaciation

1. Recipe 6/20 + 2/5/10/20 + weapon
2. Recipe 7/20 + 10/20/40/70 + Recipe 6 weapon
3. Recipe 8/20 + 22/45/90/180 +Recipe 7 weapon
4. Recipe 9/20 + 40/80/160/320 + Recipe 8 weapon
5. Recipe 10/20 + 62/125/250/500 + Recipe 9 weapon
6. Recipe 11/20 + 90/180/360/720 + Recipe 10 weapon
7. Recipe 12/20 + 122/245/490/980 + Recipe 11 weapon
8. Recipe 13/20 + 160/320/640/1,280 + Recipe 12 weapon
9. Recipe 14/20 + 202/405/810/1,620 + Recipe 13 weapon

Example: If you want a Glaciation 7 Weapon (all cold spells 7 and lower get 20% more damage), then you’ll need recipes 6/20 through 12/20 and 5+20+45+80+125+180+245 = 700 motes and the item to put it on.

Snowballs

Approximately 1d6 damage and 5% chance to freeze the target for a moment. Better against fire enemies.

• Recipe 15/20 + 10 Murky Water (collectible) + 10 motes = 10 Snowballs
• Recipe 16/20 + 1 Vial of Pure Water + 10 motes = 20 Snowballs

Secret Recipe

This creates a Snow Elemental Gem with 10 charges that do NOT recharge. On activation, it basically makes an ice version of a rock elemental with chunks of coal for eyes. According to those that have made this, it’s a complete waste of time. Here’s the goods anyway:

1. Recipe 17/20 + Recipe 18/20 + Recipe 19/20 +Recipe 20/20 = Secret Recipe Card
2. Secret Recipe Card + 1 Festival Twig + 20 Snowballs + 50 motes + 2 Lumps of Coal = Snow Elemental Gem

Information compiled from Skani‘s post and Ovrad‘s post.