Arctic Gear

General Notes

The Arctic Gear Set is for low level Amazons with a cold fetish. You get cold damage with a good duration, cold resistance, and the rare "Cannot Be Frozen" property as well. However so few monsters in Diablo II have a cold attack that this isn't a real big deal, and the overall set damage is too weak for long term use.

These are the stats for the set in Diablo II Expansion Pack: Lord of Destruction, where there are partial set bonuses and hidden item bonuses.

• The odds of gambling a set item is 1 in 1000.
• Items with Rarity are expressed as a chance out of 1000. Eg 78/1000 would mean that out of every 1000 set items of that base item that drop, 78 of them will be this particular one. This is important for rings and amulets and several other items.
• Item Level: Used in many in-game calculations. Monsters must be of this level to drop the item. All items in Arctic Gear have an Item Level of 3
• Clvl req is the character level you need to be to be able to wear the item. All items in Artic Gear have a Clvl Req of 2.
• Hidden Bonuses usually work in conjunction with other items. For example, if you are wearing a set helm that has a listed hidden bonus as "Wearing 2 Items: +15 Str", it means that if you wear the helm with any other item in the set, the helm will show an additional bonus of +15 Str in green text. These bonuses apply to the individual item only, but most sets will have several items with these properties, so you can quickly find that simply wearing 3 items from a 4 item set will give you several additional magical bonuses. The bonuses stack together, so if you have an item that has bonuses for wearing both 2 and 3 items, if you are wearing 3 items you will receive the bonus for wearing 2 items as well.

Weapon Notes

• Damage Bonus: This determines how you multiply the item damage by your stats to reach the actual damage. Multiply by the listed value per 100 points in that stat (eg if you have 200 points, multiply by 2). All bows are 100 Dex, almost all melee weapons are 100 Str, most throwing weapons are 75/75.
• Weapon Speed: A relative comparison to other weapons of the same type. 0 is the base -10, -20, etc is faster, 10, 20, etc is slower.

Armor Notes

• Light Armor: No stamina or speed penalties.
• Medium Armor: +5% stamina drain and speed penalty.
• Heavy Armor: +10% stamina drain and speed penalty.

D2X

Item	Item Name	Attributes	Hidden Bonuses
	Arctic Mitts Light Gauntlets	Rarity: 500/1000 9-11 Defense 18 Durability 45 Str Required +20 to Life 10% Increased Attack Speed	Wearing 2 Items: +50 to Attack Rating Wearing 3 Items: +10 Dexterity
	Arctic Binding Light Belt	33 Defense 14 Durability +40% Cold Resist +30 to Defense	Wearing 2 Items: +40% Better Chance of Getting Magical Items Wearing 3 Items: +10% Cold Resist
	Arctic Furs Quilted Armor	45-51 Defense 20 Durability 12 Str Required +275-325% Enhanced Defense +10% Resistance to All	Wearing 2 Items: +3 Defense per Clvl * Wearing 3 Items: +15% Cold Resistance
	Arctic Horn Short War Bow	9-21 Damage 55 Dex Required 35 Str Required 0 Weapon Speed Damage Bonus: 100 Dex +20% Bonus to Attack Rating +50% Enhanced Damage	Wearing 2 Items: +8 to Attack Rating per Clvl Wearing 3 Items: +20-30 Cold Damage, 3 Second Cold Duration

* When wearing another item of this set, the defense of this armor will increase at a rate of 3 defense per Clvl.

Set Bonuses

A couple of the individual items in this set are worth using, and the full set isn't bad, with cold resistance galore and cold damage, with a decent cold time. However cold resistance isn't all that needed in Diablo II, and the main problem is the very low bow damage that makes this one useless by Act Three.

Set Attributes/Bonus	Item Slots Used	Item Slots Free
Partial Set Bonuses: Wearing two Items: +5 Strength Wearing three Items: +50 Life Set Bonus: Cannot Be Frozen Adds 6-14 Cold Damage, 3 Second Cold Duration	Two-handed Weapon Armor Belt Gloves	Ring Ring Amulet Helm Boots

Diablo II

These are the stats for the set in Diablo II, where there are no partial set bonuses or hidden item bonuses.

Item	Item Name	Attributes	Commentary
	Arctic Mitts Light Gauntlets	9-11 Defense 36 Durability 45 Str Required Clvl 2 Required +20 to Life Slightly Increased Attack Speed	Nice gloves, if SIAS is desired early in the game, and you don't have a better Rare with it, these can work nicely.
	Arctic Binding Light Belt	33 Defense 28 Durability Clvl 2 Required +40% to Cold Resistance +30 to Defense	Nice defense and cold resistance, though only 8 slots is annoying.
	Arctic Furs Quilted Armor	45-50 Defense 40 Durability 12 Str Required Clvl 2 Required Enhanced Defense All resistances +10%	Can be used very early on for much better Defense than other cloth armor, but no long term use.
	Arctic Horn Short War Bow	8-18 Damage 40 Durability 55 Dex Required 35 Str Required Attack Speed: Am/B/N/S - Very Fast N - Normal Clvl 2 Required +20% attack rating Enhanced Damage	Not enough damage to be a useful weapon.

Set Bonuses

A couple of the individual items in this set are worth using, and the full set isn't bad, with cold resistance galore and cold damage, with a decent cold time. However cold resistance isn't all that needed in Diablo II, and the main problem is the very low bow damage that makes this one useless by Act Three.

Set Attributes/Bonus	Item Slots Used	Item Slots Free
Item Bonuses: +20 to Life Slightly Increased Attack Speed +40% to Cold Resistance +30 to Defense All resistances +10% +20% attack rating Set Bonus: Cannot Be Frozen Adds 6-14 Cold Damage Cold Duration: 4 seconds	Two-handed Weapon Armor Belt Gloves	Ring Ring Amulet Helm Boots