Chaotic Rime is a Combat Gear or commonly, Gear, classified under the Focus Seal category. From the gameplay standpoint, it is considered as Gear 2. Since Chaotic Rime is used during combat, it is considered a Combat Equipment. It it is possible to use gears to damage and defeat enemies and break destructible objects.
Note: All numeric values (except the power level) mentioned are only applicable to the default state of the gear. It may be possible to increase or decrease the net values using inscriptions, but they will not be shown.
Description and Alternative Items
For the alternative item, see Frost Shards
Chaotic Rime is an upgraded Frost Shards. It is a Focus Seal that Fires a stream of target-seeking ice shards.
Each Ice Shard can do weak point damage.
This item has a special ability, which is a procedural perk that can be activated by performing an action mentioned in its masterwork perk.
Masterwork Perk: Winter's Boost: After freezing an enemy, increases Gear 1 damage by 250% for 10 seconds.
Obtaining Methods
Chaotic Rime can be obtained in the following ways:
- Loot
- Guardians' Gifts (Tomb of Cariff)
- Regulator Store (When available)
- Crafting (Masterwork only)
Blueprint and Crafting
Chaotic Rime is an item that can be crafted. It requires different amounts of resources depending upon its rarity. Complete the requirement in Blueprint Acquisition to unlock the Blueprint. Then craft the item in the Forge using the resources.
Unlocked blueprints can be found in the Craft tab located under the appropriate combat equipment slot (Gear/Gear/Component) of a javelin in the loadouts tab of the Forge.
The following table provides insights on blueprint and crafting requirements:
Blueprint Acquisition |
Chaotic Rime Blueprint |
Crafted Chaotic Rime |
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Chaotic Rime Challenge |
Required Crafting Resources
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Trivia (May Contain Spoilers)
- At launch Chaotic Rime showed 1 second recharge time for each shard it projected. However, during combat, the game mistakenly did not take this one second into account and counted it as 0. But the developers liked this so much that they removed the recharge time altogether.
- Chaotic Rime shares its 0 recharge rate with Fist of the Crucible.
- Chaotic Rime and Frost Shards are the only two gears that have an animation similar to enemy Valkyries and Elementalists.
- Gears are the only combat items that share their base design with their upgraded design.