Frost Mage Talents

The earliest level, with every point in Frost: a tier needs the points shown, and points arrive at the levels the game sets. This is when, not what to take.

1. Level 100 points: Frost Warding, Improved Frostbolt, Precision
2. Level 155 points: Ice Shards, Frostbite, Improved Frost Nova, Permafrost
3. Level 2010 points: Frost Channeling, Improved Blizzard, Ice Lance
4. Level 2515 points: Arctic Reach, Ice Block, Shatter
5. Level 3020 points: Improved Cone of Cold, Cold Snap, Fingers of Frost
6. Level 3525 points: Winter's Chill
7. Level 4030 points: Ice Barrier

• Frost Armorfrom level 1, 3 ranks
• Frostboltfrom level 4, 11 ranks
• Frost Novafrom level 10, 4 ranks
• Blizzardfrom level 20, 6 ranks
• Ice Lancefrom level 20, 6 ranks · new in Forever · from a talent
• Frost Wardfrom level 22, 5 ranks
• Ice Blockfrom level 25 · from a talent
• Cone of Coldfrom level 26, 5 ranks
• Cold Snapfrom level 30 · from a talent
• Ice Armorfrom level 30, 4 ranks
• Ice Barrierfrom level 40, 4 ranks · from a talent

1. Fixed an issue preventing Frostbite and Fingers of Frost from activating from your Ice Armor and Frost Armor spells.

   Fix
2. Ice Lance

   Ice Lance damage against Frozen targets changed to a 200% increase (Was 300%).

   Nerf 300% to 200% Same numbers in the game data

3. Cone of Cold: Movement speed of the first 4 targets hit is decreased by an additional 10% and the slow lasts an additional 3 seconds on those targets.

   • Developers’ notes: The ability of this spell to control massive number of targets was the primary reason it was previously reduced in effectiveness and duration. It feels reasonable to let it retain this level of power when used against 4 or fewer targets.
   Changed

4. Winter’s Chill: Redesigned. No longer increases critical strike chance. Instead, it causes Cone of Cold to deal 40% increase damage per stack of Winter’s Chill on the target, consumed by next Cone of Cold.

   Changed

5. Slightly changed the positioning of the spell visual for Cone of Cold.

   Fix

6. New spell Frost Blast. 1.5 second cast. Deals low frost damage. Slows/chills. Benefits from talents that benefit Frostbolt.

   Changed

7. Winter’s Chill change to: Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to apply Winter’s Chill, increasing the target’s damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 5% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.

   Changed

8. Winter’s Chill’s application does not roll to see if it is resisted, since the original spell needed to hit.

   Changed

From Blizzard's development notes of 16 October 2026 and 1 October 2026. All patch notes

• Frost Warding
• Improved Frostbolt
• Precision
• Ice Shards
• Frostbite
• Improved Frost Nova
• Permafrost
• Frost Channeling
• Improved Blizzard
• Ice Lance
• Arctic Reach
• Ice Block
• Shatter
• Improved Cone of Cold
• Cold Snap
• Fingers of Frost
• Winter's Chill
• Ice Barrier