Name: Moira
Gender: Female
Race: Siren (Cryomancer)
Location: Boreas
Character Background
Moira was born on planet Boreas. Realizing her siren heritage at an early age, she joined a vault hunter group. Over the years, she had been growing increasingly obsessed with cold and how it enhanced her abilities. In a grandiose attempt to have Boreas freeze all over, so she could gain unlimited power, she released what she called the "Ice God" from its "prison" (actually a vault guardian in a sealed vault). Sadly, her dream was particularly unsuccessful; the guardian was eventually slain, and Moira was ostracized. With no home to return to, she found refuge in the pandoran tundras, all the while searching for the next frozen vault and the elusive path to godhood.
Action Skill
Cryo-phase
Moira taps into her inner powers and is able to freeze opponents, either by phasing them, or by melee attacks.
There is a limited ice reserve to phasing. Once depleted, you can only use melee attacks to freeze enemies.
When cryo-phased, enemies start freezing from the bottom up, and can be partly or completely encased in ice,
depending on the amount of ice you apply to them. The longer you cryo-phase for, the longer the freeze duration is.
Freezing is treated as a status effect. A frozen enemy takes continuous status damage until the ice thaws away, or he is killed.
There is no projectile involved. Moira can cryo-phase from a long distance. The range of cryo-phasing is not unlimited, however.
While cryo-phasing is active, you are still able to use your equipped weapons/grenade mods, but you cannot aim down the sights.
Badasses/bosses require higher amounts of ice to be slowed down, and break the ice off faster than common enemies.
Upon depletion of the ice reserve, you release an ice nova and the action skill ends.
Duration: 18 seconds. Cooldown: 60 seconds.
Ice/Freeze Damage
Ice damage is the initial damage that the enemy receives from an ice-based attack.
The only ice attacks are Moira's cryo-phasing, ice novas, and melee attacks.
Freeze damage is the status effect, aka the continuous damage that the enemies receive for the duration of them being frozen.
You have a 100% chance to apply freeze damage with every ice-based attack.
In addition to damaging over time, freeze damage also slows enemies down.
The duration of the freeze status effect depends on how much ice damage the enemy has received.
The more ice applied to an enemy, the longer the freeze status effect lasts for, and therefore the more freeze damage they receive.
A frozen enemy takes increased damage from explosive attacks.
Fire/burn damage decreases the duration of freeze status effects.
Note
The Bioshock gif has a projectile and the enemy freezes instantly.
Moira's Cryo-phasing is not like that. There is no projectile and it takes continuous phasing to completely freeze an enemy.
I just thought of including the pic as a reference.
Bonuses
+50% damage reduction.
+50% movement speed.
+200% melee damage
+100% health restoration.
Constant health regeneration.
Ice-damage attacks.
Freeze status effects.
Controls
"Aim": Cryo-phase
"Action skill": Ice nova (during action skill; requires skill point in Winter).
"Fire" still shoots your equipped weapon.
Alteration
A Song of Ice
Shooting your weapon is replaced by sword attacks. Grenades are replaced by throwing axes. Increased ice damage, movement speed, damage reduction.
Greatly increased melee damage. Your melee attacks cost more ice, but cause increased freeze damage. Ice damage bonuses do not boost your melee damage.
Bonuses from weapons with melee attachments wielded before activating action skill do not stack to the action skill's melee damage bonus.
The axes deal 75% of the sword melee damage (the 1/4 damage penalty of the axe damage is subtracted from the final melee damage, aka after all melee bonuses have been factored in). Grenade damage bonuses do not affect thrown axes.
Upon depletion of the ice reserve, you still release an ice nova, but the action skill does not end. Your melee attacks are no longer able to apply freeze damage to enemies, unless you regenerate a part of the ice reserve. Melee damage bonuses are not lost while the ice reserve is depleted.
Controls
"Aim": Cryo-phase
"Action skill": Ice nova (during action skill; requires skill point in Winter).
"Fire": Sword swing. Holding the button down results in an increasingly faster rate of attacks.
"Grenade": Throw axe.
Melee
Moira attacks with her longsword.
Melee override
Whiplash
You gain the ability to attack with your whip, which greatly improves your melee range. Has a 4 second cooldown.
Melee action skill alteration
A Song of Ice
Shooting your weapon is replaced by a melee attack with your sword. Grenades are replaced by throwing axes. Increased melee damage. More information above.
Skill Trees
Tier 6 Game Changer: Godhood. Increased weapon and freeze damage during cryo-phase, increased cryo-phase and freeze duration, increased ice reserve.
Legacy: This skill tree focuses on weapon bonuses and overall efficiency in combat and crowd control.
Tier 6 Game Changer: Winter. You gain the ability to release ice novas, along with increased ice and freeze damage and increased ice reserve. Every nova drains your ice reserve by 20%.
Viking: This skill tree focuses on melee damage bonuses and survivability through healing skills, damage reduction, health and shield boosts.
Tier 6 Game Changer: A Song of Ice. Firing your weapon during cryo-phase is replaced by sword attacks. Grenades are replaced by throwing axes. Greatly increased melee damage. Increased ice damage, movement speed, and damage reduction. Melee attacks now drain your ice reserve, but apply more freeze damage.
Class mods
Snow Leopard
Action Skill Cooldown
Global Freezing (Ravenous)
Re-freeze (Merciless)
Relentless (Relentless)
Goddess
Ice damage
In cold blood (Unforgiving)
Heartless (Heartless)
Re-freeze (Merciless)
Harpy
Team weapon damage
Team melee damage
Metal Storm (Storming)
Power lust (Hungry)
Wrath (Furious)
Snow Angel
Max Heath
Health regeneration
Alive (Real)
Rabid (Rabid)
0 Degrees (Undying)
Sentinel
Magazine size
Fire rate
Quake (Blast)
Shatter (Shattering)
Placeholder (Immovable)
Guardian
Freeze damage
Freeze duration
Prepared (Prepared)
Relentless (Relentless)
Perfect Storm (Vindictive)
Valkyrie
Team explosive damage
Perfect Storm (Vindictive)
Shatter (Shattering)
Unlimited Power (Limitless)
Wendigo
Team movement speed
Team melee damage
Wrath (Furious)
The Coldest Touch (Cruel)
Unlimited Power (Limitless)
Shield Maiden
Shield Capacity
Shield Recharge Delay
Glacier (Solid)
Genoslide (Unstoppable)
Frozen (Frozen)
Legendary Cryo-mancer
Action Skill Cooldown
Tundra
Powerlust
Heartless
In cold blood
Unlimited Power
Legendary Shield Maiden
Shield Capacity
Shield Recharge Delay
Glacier
Genoslide
Frozen
0 Degrees
Rabid
Legendary Valkyrie
Team explosive damage
Perfect Storm
Shatter
Unlimited Power
Quare
Power lust
Legendary Goddess
Ice damage
In cold blood
Heartless
Re-freeze
Relentless
Perfect Storm
Legendary Wendigo
Team movement speed
Team melee damage
Wrath
Perfect Storm
Heartless
Unlimited Power
The Coldest Touch