Northstar

## Northstar**Edit**

* Frost
* Nature

 **Northstar**Northstar4016 DeviceIce BreakerBlessed HibernationFast Construction1000

 **Northstar**Northstar4016 DeviceIce BreakerGifted SlowdownFast Construction1000

## Statistics

### Booster Content

General, Mini, Fire/Frost, Frost, Lost Souls, Stonekin

### Card ID (Nature)

1273

**Northstar** is a Tier 2 () Building of the Frost faction. This rare card was released with the Renegade Edition and has 2 affinity variants,  Frost and  Nature, but not a promo version.

This card has been changed already, compared to its original appearance in BattleForge.

## Card Info

* Northstar (Frost)
* Northstar (Nature)
Support building, does not attack.

**Ice Breaker**
 **Passive:** Building is surrounded by an icy aura with a 25m radius that enables all friendly entities within it to deal 25 / 25 / 25 / 50% more damage against frozen units. Additionally, they are able to ignore the usual damage reduction of frozen targets.

**Blessed Hibernation**
Affinity Dependency:  Frost **Passive:** Within a 25m radius hostile units remain frozen 25% longer.

**Fast Construction**
Availability: Upgrade 1-3 **Passive:** Construction time is reduced by 50%.Support building, does not attack.

**Ice Breaker**
 **Passive:** Building is surrounded by an icy aura with a 25m radius that enables all friendly entities within it to deal 25 / 25 / 25 / 50% more damage against frozen units. Additionally, they are able to ignore the usual damage reduction of frozen targets.

**Gifted Slowdown**
Affinity Dependency:  Nature **Passive:** Within a 25m radius hostile units can only move at walk speed.

**Fast Construction**
Availability: Upgrade 1-3 **Passive:** Construction time is reduced by 50%.

## Card Upgrades & Drop Locations

Displayed below are the card's upgrades and where to obtain them.

* Frost
* Nature

## Gallery

* Card Artwork
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## Patch History

Patch #400035
* Passive ability :
	+ Renamed from **Accelerated Construction** to **Fast Construction**.
	+ Improved and shortened ability name in non-English languages to be more consistent.

Patch #400030
* Passive ability **Accelerated Construction**:
	+ The upgrade I description is now correctly displaying the gain of the ability.
* Removed old passive ability **Blessed Ice Breaker** and split it into two new abilities:
	+ Added new passive ability :
	*Building is surrounded by an icy aura with a 25m radius that enables all friendly entities within it to deal 50% more damage against frozen units. Additionally, they are able to ignore the usual damage reduction of frozen targets.*
	+ Added new passive ability :
	*Within a 25m radius hostile units remain frozen 25% longer.*
	+ Adjusted the range of the visual effects to better match the actual effect radius.
		- Is now displaying an icon in the affected hostile unit's status bar, if it is within the area of effect.
* Removed old passive ability **Gifted Ice Breaker** and split it into two new abilities:
	+ Added new passive ability :
	*Building is surrounded by an icy aura with a 25m radius that enables all friendly entities within it to deal 50% more damage against frozen units. Additionally, they are able to ignore the usual damage reduction of frozen targets.*
	+ Added new passive ability :
	*Within a 25m radius hostile units can only move at walk speed.*
	+ Adjusted the range of the visual effects to better match the actual effect radius.

Patch #400022
* Adjusted the card's energy cost from 40 on all upgrades to 50 / 40 / 40 / 40.
* Adjusted construction time per upgrade from 20 / 15 / 10 / 10 to 20 / 10 / 10 / 10 seconds.
* Added passive ability **Accelerated Construction** to both affinities, excluding upgrade 0:
	+ `Construction time is reduced by 50%.`
	+ Functionality remains unchanged.

## See also

Playable Cards

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