Mage talent · row 6 of Frost, from level 35 (30 with Talented 5/5) · Physical
Winter's Chill
Winter's Chill
Gives your Frost damage spells a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 1/2/3/4/5 times.
Compared with Classic
Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
| Data | Classic | Forever |
|---|---|---|
| effect 2 | none | added |
Through its linked spell Winter's Chill (12579), which it casts or reads its numbers from
| effect 1 aura | aura (569) | aura (308) |
In Blizzard's notes
What Blizzard said about Winter's Chill, each line checked against the files.
- Matches the files
Winter's Chill's application does not roll to see if it is resisted, since the original spell needed to hit.
The files Build 70170 added the always-hit flag (Attributes_3 0x40000) to the Winter's Chill debuff (12579).
History
- 69876 Sep 16First beta build we archived. No changes in the client files since.