Ice Spikes

Acquired: BLU (actions)
Level: 1
Type: Spell
Index: 16
Rank: ★
Damage Type: Magical
Aspect: Ice
MP Cost: 500
Casting: 1.90s

Recast: 2.38s (GCD)
Range: 0y
Radius: 0y

Targeting: Enemy
Patch: 4.5

“

Counters enemies with ice damage every time you suffer physical damage.
Counter potency: 40
Duration: 15s
Additional Effect: 50% chance that when you are struck, the striker will be afflicted with Slow +20%.
Duration: 15s

— In-game description

Ice Spikes is an action unlocked at level 1. It is available for Blue Mage.

Flavor Text

Favored by certain types of voidsent, this spell─technically a curse, cast upon oneself─converts the malice of attackers into aetherial spikes of ice, impaling them each time they strike. The more furious their flurries, the more pain they cause themselves─poetic justice, one might say.

Acquisition

Open World

Level 9 Trickster Imp in Central Shroud (x27,y24)
Azulmagia from Stage 25 Masked Carnivale Dirty Rotten Azulmagia

Dungeon

Level 28 Manor Jester, second boss from Haukke Manor

Tips

Acquisition Tips

Trickster Imp uses this very early in the fight when encountered.
Azulmagia will open with the spell as his barrier for Act 1 and will alternate it with his magic-counter barrier in Act 3 at certain intervals in the fight.

Other Tips

This is a buff spell that does not require a target. Use this when dealing with physical-attack focused enemies and/or enemies weak to ice type.