Snowballs
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| The more common types of snowballs look very similar, varying only in color. | |
Snowballs are a common type of weapon in the Battledome. Snowballs vary widely in the amount of power and price. Generally, the price reflects how powerful the snowball is, but there are a few exception, like the Good Snowball and Taelias Snowball.
The common types of snowballs look exactly the same except for their color. Many of the weaker ones like the Wet Snowball and Poison Snowball are rewards in the game Snow Wars and are sometimes given out at the Healing Springs.
In the Battledome
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| Rarer and more powerful snowballs are more unique. | |
All snowballs are single use weapons, which means they disappear after one use. Despite how many are used, there is always a strong supply of snowballs in Neopia to feed battledomers. The drawback of being a single use item is balanced by the extra amount of icons snowballs do. Snowballs that do four to six icons of damage can be found for only a few NP on the Shop Wizard. The low price and high damage snowballs can do make them popular with lower to mid level pets for an easy win.
Some of the more popular snowballs with battledomers are the Sticky Snowball, which does 11-15 icons of damage, the Snow Mudball, which does 11-14 icons, and the Exploding Snowball, which does 7-10 icons. The Poison Snowball is popular with some who are not as concerned with winning battles as they are with bothering their opponent. They use the Poison Snowball because one of its effects is giving a Neopet hit with it the disease Hoochie Coochies.
During wars the price of snowballs soars due to the increased demand by low level battledomers looking for a quick win against low HP war opponents.
Higher level battledome fighters move up from snowballs in two ways. Usually the buy once per battle high damage weapons like Honey Potion and Ghostkerbomb. They also buy more powerful single use items like Clockwork Grundos or muffins.
Snowball Generators
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| The Evil Snowball Wand and the Snowglobe Staff. | |
There are some generator weapons that produce snowballs. Most of these are some type of snowball wand. The type of snowball generated is apparent from the name of a snowball wand, the Wet Snowball Wand produces Wet Snowballs, etc. Snowball wands are not used by most battlers because the ones that exist only generate weak snowballs. Even more, when the wand generates snowball, the batttler must wait until the next term to use it. Taking two turns to use a weak snowball just isn't effective.
Another snowball generator that is actually very popular with low level battledomers is the Snowglobe Staff, which has a chance of generating a Yellow Snowball when used. The generating ability is not what it is used for however, the Snowglobe Staff has about a 20% chance to freeze the opponent, a high freeze rate for it's relatively low price of about 18,000 NP.