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{{Infobox Item
|name = Tome of frost
|image = [[File:Tome of frost.png]]
|release = [[12 April]] [[2010]]
|update = Dungeoneering Skill!
|members = No
|quest = No
|tradeable = No
|equipable = Yes
|stackable = No
|high = 12000
|low = 8000
|value = 20000
|destroy = Drop
|store = 43,000
|currency = [[Dungeoneering tokens]]
|seller = Daemonheim Rewards
|exchange = No
|examine = Like a snowflake, no page is the same as another.
|weight = 1
}}

[[File:Tome of Frost Detail.png|100px|left]]

The '''tome of frost''' is a reward obtained through the [[Dungeoneering]] skill. It requires level 48 [[Magic]] and level 48 Dungeoneering to use.

Similar to the [[staff of water]], the tome of frost acts as an infinite stock of [[water runes]] when carried in the offhand slot (as opposed to the weapon slot for staves). This can be useful when using fighting with a weapon and also casting magic, as you can have access to a staff and the tome providing unlimited runes of multiple types. It also greatly reduces the amount of runes needed to attack with magic; for example, when wielding a staff of air with the tome of frost, the cost of a [[Water Wave]] spell would be reduced to a single [[blood rune]]. Another great example being when using a staff of earth with the tome of frost while  casting the [[Vulnerability]], [[Enfeeble]], and [[Stun]] spells it would reduce the cost of the spell to simply a soul rune, which is great since the spells are vastly used to train at higher magic levels. It also works with [[Lunar Spells]] such as [[Humidify]]. If wielded along with a [[lava battlestaff]] or equivalent, the wielder would have an infinite supply of every elemental rune besides air.

Since [[4 October]] [[2011]] wielding the tome of frost reduces the damage taken from [[desert heat]] effect.

The tome is also useful when using [[ice spells]] from the [[Ancient Magicks]] [[spellbook]], as the user can have the benefit of unlimited water runes in the offhand slot, allowing them to use a damage-boosting staff such as the [[Staff of Light]] or the [[Ancient Staff]]. By wielding an earth staff with the tome of frost, a caster can perform [[curses]] such as [[Stun]] at the cost of a single rune.

The tome of frost will never degrade, which makes it useful for mages, it also provides the highest F2P magic bonus for the offhand.

The tome of frost can be a cheaper (and sometimes more effective) substitute for an [[Zamorak's unholy book]] because the tome of frost is free gold-wise and supplies unlimited water runes. The tome of frost also has a higher magic attack bonus (+10 vs. +8) and a higher magic defence bonus (+10 vs. +0) than the unholy book.

However, obtaining 43k Dungeoneering tokens to buy a tome of frost can take a long time. The unholy book is also better for hybrids/tribrids, or people who switch from different combat styles, as the unholy book has balanced stats across all combat styles (+8 in every attack statistic).

{{Infobox Bonuses
|slot = shield
|astab = 0
|aslash = 0
|acrush = 0
|amagic = +10
|arange = 0
|dstab = 0
|dslash = 0
|dcrush = 0
|dmagic = +10
|drange = 0
|dsummon = 0
| absorbmelee = 0%
| absorbmagic = 0%
| absorbranged = 0%
|str = 0
|rangestr = 0
|prayer = 0
|magicdamage = 0%
|image = Tome of frost equipped.png{{!}}130px
|caption = A player wielding a tome of frost
}}

{| class="wikitable"
|+align="bottom"|<small>Spells ineffective for training, and also spells using single kind of elemental runes are omitted.</small>
|-
! Spell
! Wielded Item
! Runes needed
! Coins
! Substitute
|-
| [[Confuse]], [[Weaken]], [[Curse]]
| [[Staff of earth]] or equivalent
| 1 [[body rune]]
| {{GEprice|Body rune}}
| [[Mud battlestaff]]
|-
|[[Vulnerability]], [[Enfeeble]], [[Stun]]
| [[Staff of earth]] or equivalent
| 1 [[soul rune]] || {{GEprice|Soul rune}}
| [[Mud battlestaff]]
|-
|[[Water Strike]]
| [[Staff of air]] or equivalent
| 1 [[mind rune]]
| {{GEprice|Mind rune}}
| None
|-
|[[Water Bolt]]
| [[Staff of air]] or equivalent
| 1 [[chaos rune]]
| {{GEprice|Chaos rune}}
| None
|-
|[[Water Blast]]
| [[Staff of air]] or equivalent
| 1 [[death rune]]
| {{GEprice|Death rune}}
| None
|-
|[[Water Wave]]
| [[Staff of air]] or equivalent
| 1 [[blood rune]]
| {{GEprice|Blood rune}}
| None
|-
|[[Water Surge]]
| [[Staff of air]] or equivalent
| 1 [[death rune]] and 1 [[blood rune]]
| {{#expr: {{GEprice|Death rune|n}}+{{GEprice|Blood rune|n}} |n}}
| None
|}

== Compared to others ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" rowspan="1"| Item
! [[File:Magic-icon.png]] attack
! [[File:Magic-icon.png]] defence
! [[File:Magic-icon.png]] absorption
|-
| [[File:Arcane spirit shield.png]]
| [[Arcane spirit shield]]
| +20
| +2
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Celestial surgebox.png]]
| [[Celestial surgebox]]
| +7
| +7
|0%
|-
| [[File:Eagle-eye kiteshield.png]]
| [[Eagle-eye kiteshield]]
| +0
| +25
| +14%
|-
| [[File:Farseer kiteshield.png]]
| [[Farseer kiteshield]]
| +17
| +5
| +7%
|-
| [[File:Incomplete ancient book.png]]
| [[Ancient Book]]
| +6
| +6
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Mages' book.png]]
| [[Mages' book]]
| +15
| +15
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Sacred clay shield (magic).png]]
| [[Sacred clay shield (magic)]]
| +0
| +30
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Spectral spirit shield.png]]
| [[Spectral spirit shield]]
| +0
| +30
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Tome of frost.png]]
| Tome of frost
| +10
| +10
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Unholy book.png]]
| [[Unholy Book]]
| +8
| +0
| 0%
|-
| [[File:Ward of subjugation.png]]
| [[Ward of subjugation]]
| +16
| +3
| 6%
|}

== Trivia ==
*The tome of frost used to cost 70,000 Dungeoneering tokens before the [[Update:Slayer Challenges|21 April 2010]] update.
*By the current standard, 430,000 [[experience]] is needed to gain the item, effectively pushing the actual requirement to 64 Dungeoneering, unless the tokens are obtained through other methods, such as [[Fremennik Sagas]].
*The [[Items Kept on Death]] interface values tome of frost at 20,000 coins.

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