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Mage Frost (WoW Talent Tree)

	Mage
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Primary Uses

Since frost is not up to par with arcane or fire for dps it is not a common raiding spec and is more found to be used in arenas due to its great CC capabilities.

Tier 1

• Frost Warding
• Rank 1 - Increases the armor and resistances given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.
• Rank 2 - Increases the armor and resistances given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 20% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.
• Improved Frostbolt
• Rank 1 - Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.1 sec.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.2 sec.
• Rank 3 - Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.3 sec.
• Rank 4 - Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.4 sec.
• Rank 5 - Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.5 sec.
• Elemental Precision
• Rank 1 - Reduces the mana cost and chance targets resist your Frost and Fire spells by 1%.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the mana cost and chance targets resist your Frost and Fire spells by 2%.
• Rank 3 - Reduces the mana cost and chance targets resist your Frost and Fire spells by 3%.

Tier 2

• Ice Shards
• Rank 1 - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 20%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 40%.
• Rank 3 - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 60%.
• Rank 4 - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 80%.
• Rank 5 - Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 100%.
• Frostbite
• Rank 1 - Gives your Chill effects a 5% chance to freeze the target for 5 seconds.
• Rank 2 - Gives your Chill effects a 10% chance to freeze the target for 5 seconds.
• Rank 3 - Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to freeze the target for 5 seconds.
• Improved Frost Nova
• Rank 1 - Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 2 sec.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 4 sec.
• Permafrost
• Rank 1 - Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 1 secs and reduces the target's speed by an additional 4%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 2 secs and reduces the target's speed by an additional 7%.
• Rank 3 - Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 3 secs and reduces the target's speed by an additional 10%.

Tier 3

• Piercing Ice
• Rank 1 - Increases the damage done by your Frost spells by 2%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the damage done by your Frost spells by 4%.
• Rank 3 - Increases the damage done by your Frost spells by 6%.
• Icy Veins
• Rank 1 - Hastens your spellcasting, increasing spell casting speed by 20% and gives you 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting. Lasts 20 seconds.
• Improved Blizzard
• Rank 1 - Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 30%. Lasts 1.5 seconds.
• Rank 2 - Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 50%. Lasts 1.5 seconds.
• Rank 3 - Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 65%. Lasts 1.5 seconds.

Tier 4

• Arctic Reach
• Rank 1 - Increases the range of your Frostbolt, Ice Lance and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 10%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the range of your Frostbolt, Ice Lance and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 20%.
• Frost Channeling
• Rank 1 - Reduces the mana cost of your Frost spells by 5% and reduces the threat caused by your Frost spells by 4%.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the mana cost of your Frost spells by 10% and reduces the threat caused by your Frost spells by 7%.
• Rank 3 - Reduces the mana cost of your Frost spells by 15% and reduces the threat caused by your Frost spells by 10%.
• Shatter
• Requires 2 point(s) in Improved Frost Nova.
• Rank 1 - Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 10%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 20%.
• Rank 3 - Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 30%.
• Rank 4 - Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 40%.
• Rank 5 - Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 50%.

Tier 5

• Frozen Core
• Rank 1 - Reduces the damage taken by Frost and Fire effects by 2%.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the damage taken by Frost and Fire effects by 4%.
• Rank 3 - Reduces the damage taken by Frost and Fire effects by 6%.
• Cold Snap
• Rank 1 - When activated, this spell finishes the cooldown on all Frost spells you recently cast.
• '''[[WoW Spell:Improved Cone of Cold 5
• Rank 1 - Increases the damage dealt by your Cone of Cold spell by 15%.
• Rank 2 - Increases the damage dealt by your Cone of Cold spell by 25%.
• Rank 3 - Increases the damage dealt by your Cone of Cold spell by 35%.

Tier 6

• Ice Floes
• Rank 1 - Reduces the cooldown of your Cone of Cold, Cold Snap, Ice Barrier and Ice Block spells by 10%.
• Rank 2 - Reduces the cooldown of your Cone of Cold, Cold Snap, Ice Barrier and Ice Block spells by 20%.
• Winter's Chill
• Rank 1 - 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 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Rank 2 - Gives your Frost damage spells a 40% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Rank 3 - Gives your Frost damage spells a 60% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Rank 4 - Gives your Frost damage spells a 80% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.
• Rank 5 - Gives your Frost damage spells a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 seconds. Stacks up to 5 times.

Tier 7

• Ice Barrier
• Requires 1 point(s) in Cold Snap.
• Rank 1 - Instantly shields you, absorbing 438 damage. Lasts 60 seconds. While the shield holds, spells will not be interrupted.
• Arctic Winds
• Rank 1 - Increases all Frost damage you cause by 1% and reduces the chance melee and ranged attacks will hit you by 1%.
• Rank 2 - Increases all Frost damage you cause by 2% and reduces the chance melee and ranged attacks will hit you by 2%.
• Rank 3 - Increases all Frost damage you cause by 3% and reduces the chance melee and ranged attacks will hit you by 3%.
• Rank 4 - Increases all Frost damage you cause by 4% and reduces the chance melee and ranged attacks will hit you by 4%.
• Rank 5 - Increases all Frost damage you cause by 5% and reduces the chance melee and ranged attacks will hit you by 5%.

Tier 8

• Empowered Frostbolt
• Rank 1 - Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 2% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional 1% chance to critically strike.
• Rank 2 - Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 4% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional 2% chance to critically strike.
• Rank 3 - Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 6% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional 3% chance to critically strike.
• Rank 4 - Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 8% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional 4% chance to critically strike.
• Rank 5 - Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 10% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional 5% chance to critically strike.

Tier 9

• Summon Water Elemental
• Rank 1 - Summon a Water Elemental to fight for the caster for 45 seconds.

Typical Points Spent

17/0/44 2v2 arena spec

• 2/2 Arcane Subtlety
• 3/5 Arcane Focus
• 5/5 Magic Absorption
• 4/5 Arcane Concentration
• 1/1 Arcane Fortitude
• 2/2 Improved Counterspell
• 5/5 Improved Frostbolt
• 1/3 Elemental Precision
• 5/5 Iceshards
• 3/3 Frostbite
• 2/2 Improved Frost Nova
• 3/3 Permafrost
• 3/3 Piercing Ice
• 1/1 Icy Veins
• 2/2 Arctic Reach
• 5/5 Shatter
• 1/1 Cold Snap
• 5/5 Winter's Chill
• 1/1 Frost Barrier
• 2/5 Arctic Winds
• 5/5 Empowered Frostbolt
• 1/1 Summon Water Elemental

17/044 3v3 arena spec (very close with a change or two compared to 2s

• 2/2 Arcane Subtlety
• 3/5 Arcane Focus
• 5/5 Magic Absorption
• 4/5 Arcane Concentration
• 1/1 Arcane Fortitude
• 2/2 Improved Counterspell
• 5/5 Improved Frostbolt
• 1/3 Elemental Precision
• 5/5 Iceshards
• 3/3 Frostbite
• 2/2 Improved Frost Nova
• 2/3 Permafrost
• 3/3 Piercing Ice
• 1/1 Icy Veins
• 2/2 Arctic Reach
• 5/5 Shatter
• 1/1 Cold Snap
• 5/5 Winter's Chill
• 1/1 Frost Barrier
• 3/5 Arctic Winds
• 5/5 Empowered Frostbolt
• 1/1 Summon Water Elemental

1/0/60 5v5 arena spec

• 1/2 Arcane Subtlety
• 2/2 Frost Warding
• 5/5 Improved Frostbolt
• 1/3 Elemental Precision
• 5/5 Iceshards
• 3/3 Frostbite
• 2/2 Improved Frost Nova
• 3/3 Permafrost
• 3/3 Piercing Ice
• 1/1 Icy Veins
• 2/3 Improved Blizzard
• 2/2 Arctic Reach
• 3/3 Frost Channeling
• 5/5 Shatter
• 1/1 Cold Snap
• 3/3 Improved Cone of Cold
• 2/2 Ice Floes
• 5/5 Winter's Chill
• 1/1 Frost Barrier
• 5/5 Arctic Winds
• 5/5 Empowered Frostbolt
• 1/1 Summon Water Elemental

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