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Cone of Cold

Level: Level 5 · Evocation
Cost: Action + 5th-level spell slot
Range: Self
Area: 9 m cone, 60°
Roll: Constitution save
Damage: 8d8 Cold
On a successful save: Half damage
Components: Verbal, Somatic

Make a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals erupt from your hands.

Damage by spell slot

Average at 5th level

8d8 Cold

Average at 6th level

40.5

9d8 Cold

Per slot level

+4.5

each slot above 5th

5th-level slot36 8d8 Cold
6th-level slot40.5 9d8 Cold

Average damage of one cast at each spell slot, from the game's own upcast entries; a creature that succeeds the save takes half.

Slot	Damage	Average	On a save
5th	8d8 Cold	36	18
6th	9d8 Cold	40.5	20.3

Who can get it

From the game's class, subclass and race progression tables (the level is the class or character level it first becomes available at), feat choices, equipment boosts and scrolls.

Classes 2

Sorcerer · can pick, from level 9
Bard · can pick, from level 10

Subclasses 11

Abjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Bladesinging (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Conjuration (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Divination (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Enchantment (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Evocation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Illusion (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
Necromancy (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9
The Fiend (Warlock) · can pick, from level 9
The Hexblade (Warlock) · can pick, from level 9
Transmutation (Wizard) · can pick, from level 9

Scrolls and items 1

Scroll of Cone of Cold · casts it, can copy into a spellbook