Ice Staff

Summary
It's a club that was once held by the mythical Yeti before its eventual death. Can either be obtained through a Yeti Chest or buying it off the store for 1,499 Tickets.

Background Story
Ice collected from the newly evolved Yeti's cave was imbued with some sort of strange power - one beyond our comprehension. Its particles were firmly trapped in place, making liquefaction almost impossible. (The ice was so cold. Very cold. The ice barely melts.) In fact, it was so cold, that it was found to freeze zombies on impact due to their much lower body temperature compared to a normal survivor.

Heavenly Day seized the opportunity, extracted hundreds of tons of ice, and began to mass-produce what many consider to be a rarity (a useful product) - the Ice Staff.

Pay 100 more Tickets and get some included mittens.

Tips

 * Use an item that supplies infinite stamina to escape swarms.
 * Consider wearing the Tactical II to help you due to the high energy consumption for this weapon.
 * This is helpful for AIs who don't get tripped.
 * Really useful against a lot of diggers.
 * You can freeze a Brute with this which, in fact, can counteract its forcefield for a short period of time.
 * If an Edgar or Leaper has caught a survivor, freezing them will force them to let the survivor go.
 * However, freezing a leaper that has caught a survivor will not prevent it from killing the survivor as it will still rip apart the caught survivor.
 * This doesn't freeze Elementals.
 * This item is useful in Rapid Infection, to freeze zombies.
 * But this can also backfire due to the fact you don't have Immunity.

Trivia

 * This was added during the R2DA Christmas Event 2017.
 * This is similar to the Ice Hammer from R2D 2014, in terms of usage.
 * Uses the highest stamina out of all melee weapons.
 * First weapon to have the ability to inflict freeze.
 * Third weapon to afflict a status effect that isn't trip, push, or stun.
 * Second to afflict a status effect without an attachment.
 * Second event item that cost 1,499 Tickets.
 * The first being the Torch.
 * Also, the most expensive event weapon tied with the Torch.
 * It used to cost 1,500 Tickets before the price was reduced by 1.
 * Using the Flamethrower on a frozen enemy will unfreeze them.
 * There was a glitch where Edgars and Leapers would lose their abilities. It was patched on 1.0.8a