Frost Mage Talents

The War Within Season 1

Talents in World of Warcraft define your character's gameplay. They offer active abilities for offense and defense, major cooldowns, or passive enhancements to your stats and spells. Here are the current Frost Mage talents for The War Within Season 1.

Where to Find Talents

Talents can be found in the talent menu, which is accessible by pressing the N key (default) or by clicking the target icon in the micro menu:

Screenshot of the talents button in the micro menu

Class Talents

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Mage specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Mage class, offering a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Mage's overall capabilities.

Name	Cast	Effect
Ice Barrier	Instant - 25 Sec Cooldown	Shields you with ice, absorbing 47,361 damage for 1 min. Melee attacks against you reduce the attacker's movement speed by 50%.
Ice Block	Instant - 4 Min Cooldown	Encases you in a block of ice, protecting you from all attacks and damage for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells. Causes Hypothermia, preventing you from recasting Ice Block for 30 sec.
Overflowing Energy	Passive	Your spell critical strike damage is increased by 10%. When your direct damage spells fail to critically strike a target, your spell critical strike chance is increased by 2%, up to 10% for 8 sec. When your spells critically strike Overflowing Energy is reset.
Incanter's Flow	Passive	Magical energy flows through you while in combat, building up to 10% increased damage and then diminishing down to 2% increased damage, cycling every 10 sec.
Winter's Protection	Passive	The cooldown of Ice Block is reduced by 60 sec.
Spellsteal	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Steals a beneficial magic effect from the target. This effect lasts a maximum of 2 min.
Tempest Barrier	Passive	Gain a shield that absorbs 6% of your maximum health for 15 sec after you Blink.
Incantation of Swiftness	Passive	Invisibility increases your movement speed by 80% for 6 sec.
Remove Curse	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 8 Sec Cooldown	Removes all Curses from a friendly target.
Arcane Warding	Passive	Reduces magic damage taken by 4%.
Mirror Image	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Creates 3 copies of you nearby for 40 sec, which cast spells and attack your enemies. While your images are active damage taken is reduced by 20%. Taking direct damage will cause one of your images to dissipate.
Shifting Power	Channeled - 1 Min Cooldown	Draw power from within, dealing 13,222 Arcane damage over 3.6 sec to enemies within 18 yds. While channeling, your Mage ability cooldowns are reduced by 12 sec over 3.6 sec.
Alter Time	Instant - 1 Min Cooldown	Alters the fabric of time, returning you to your current location and health when cast a second time, or after 10 sec. Effect negated by long distance or death.
Cryo-Freeze	Passive	While inside Ice Block, you heal for 50% of your maximum health over the duration.
Reduplication	Passive	Mirror Image's cooldown is reduced by 10 sec whenever a Mirror Image dissipates due to direct damage.
Reabsorption	Passive	You are healed for 3% of your maximum health whenever a Mirror Image dissipates due to direct damage.
Quick Witted	Passive	Successfully interrupting an enemy with Counterspell reduces its cooldown by 4 sec.
Mass Polymorph	1.7 Sec Cast - 1 Min Cooldown	Transforms all enemies within 10 yards into sheep, wandering around incapacitated for 15 sec. While affected, the victims cannot take actions but will regenerate health very quickly. Damage will cancel the effect. Only works on Beasts, Humanoids and Critters.
Slow	Instant - 35 Yd Range	Reduces the target's movement speed by 50% for 15 sec.
Master of Time	Passive	Reduces the cooldown of Alter Time by 10 sec. Alter Time resets the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer when you return to your original location.
Diverted Energy	Passive	Your Barriers heal you for 40% of the damage absorbed.
Ring of Frost	2 Sec Cast - 30 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Summons a Ring of Frost for 10 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring are incapacitated for 10 sec. Limit 10 targets. When the incapacitate expires, enemies are slowed by 65% for 4 sec.
Ice Nova	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 25 Sec Cooldown	Causes a whirl of icy wind around the enemy, dealing 7,577 Frost damage to the target and all other enemies within 8 yds, freezing them in place for 2 sec. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets.
Shimmer	Instant - 0.5 Sec Cooldown	Teleports you 20 yds forward, unless something is in the way. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting.
Ice Floes	Instant	Makes your next Mage spell with a cast time shorter than 10 sec castable while moving. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting.
Blast Wave	Instant - 30 Sec Cooldown	Causes an explosion around yourself, dealing 3,021 Fire damage to all enemies within 8 yds, knocking them back, and reducing movement speed by 70% for 6 sec.
Improved Frost Nova	Passive	Frost Nova duration is increased by 2 sec.
Rigid Ice	Passive	Frost Nova can withstand 80% more damage before breaking.
Tome of Rhonin	Passive	Increases Critical Strike chance by 2%.
Dragon's Breath	Instant - 45 Sec Cooldown	Enemies in a cone in front of you take 3,769 Fire damage and are disoriented for 4 sec. Damage will cancel the effect.
Supernova	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Pulses arcane energy around the target enemy or ally, dealing 2,237 Arcane damage to all enemies within 8 yds, and knocking them upward. A primary enemy target will take 100% increased damage.
Tome of Antonidas	Passive	Increases Haste by 2%.
Volatile Detonation	Passive	Greatly increases the effect of Blast Wave's knockback. Blast Wave's cooldown is reduced by 5 sec
Energized Barriers	Passive	When your barrier receives melee attacks, you have a 10% chance to be granted Clearcasting. Casting your barrier removes all snare effects.
Frigid Winds	Passive	All of your snare effects reduce the target's movement speed by an additional 10%.
Flow of Time	Passive	The cooldowns of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 4 sec.
Temporal Velocity	Passive	Increases your movement speed by 20% for 3 sec after casting Blink and 40% for 6 sec after returning from Alter Time.
Ice Ward	Passive	Frost Nova now has 2 charges.
Freezing Cold	Passive	Enemies hit by Cone of Cold are frozen in place for 5 sec instead of snared. When your roots expire or are dispelled, your target is snared by 80%, decaying over 3 sec.
Time Manipulation	Passive	Casting Clearcasting Arcane Missiles reduces the cooldown of your loss of control abilities by 2 sec.
Displacement	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 45 Sec Cooldown	Teleports you back to where you last Blinked and heals you for 39,468 health. Only usable within 8 sec of Blinking.
Accumulative Shielding	Passive	Your barrier's cooldown recharges 30% faster while the shield persists.
Greater Invisibility	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Makes you invisible and untargetable for 20 sec, removing all threat. Any action taken cancels this effect. You take 60% reduced damage while invisible and for 3 sec after reappearing.
Barrier Diffusion	Passive - 100 Yd Range	Whenever one of your Barriers is removed, reduce its cooldown by 4 sec.
Ice Cold	Passive	Ice Block now reduces all damage taken by 70% for 6 sec but no longer grants Immunity, prevents movement, attacks, or casting spells. Does not incur the Global Cooldown.
Time Anomaly	Passive	At any moment, you have a chance to gain Arcane Surge for 4 sec, Clearcasting, or Time Warp for 6 sec.
Inspired Intellect	Passive	Arcane Intellect grants you an additional 3% Intellect.
Mass Invisibility	Instant - 5 Min Cooldown	You and your allies within 40 yards instantly become invisible for 12 sec. Taking any action will cancel the effect. Does not affect allies in combat.
Mass Barrier	Instant - 3 Min Cooldown	Cast Prismatic Barrier on yourself and 4 allies within 40 yds.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Frost Mages with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. These talents differentiate Frost Mages from other Mage specializations, maximizing effectiveness in combat.

Name	Cast	Effect
Ice Lance	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Quickly fling a shard of ice at the target, dealing 3,309 Frost damage. Ice Lance damage is tripled against frozen targets.
Frozen Orb	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 1 Min Cooldown	Launches an orb of swirling ice up to 40 yds forward which deals up to 14,712 Frost damage to all enemies it passes through over 15 sec. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. Grants 1 charge of Fingers of Frost when it first damages an enemy. Enemies damaged by the Frozen Orb are slowed by 30% for 3 sec.
Fingers of Frost	Passive	Frostbolt has a 15% chance and Frozen Orb damage has a 10% to grant a charge of Fingers of Frost. Fingers of Frost causes your next Ice Lance to deal damage as if the target were frozen. Maximum 2 charges.
Flurry	Instant - 40 Yd Range	Unleash a flurry of ice, striking the target 3 times for a total of 9,833 Frost damage. Each hit reduces the target's movement speed by 70% for 1 sec and applies Winter's Chill to the target. Winter's Chill causes the target to take damage from your spells as if it were frozen.
Shatter	Passive	Multiplies the critical strike chance of your spells against frozen targets by 1.5, and adds an additional 50% critical strike chance.
Brain Freeze	Passive	Frostbolt has a 25% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Flurry and cause your next Flurry to deal 50% increased damage.
Everlasting Frost	Passive	Frozen Orb deals an additional 30% damage and its duration is increased by 2 sec.
Winter's Blessing	Passive	Your Haste is increased by 8%. You gain 10% more of the Haste stat from all sources.
Frostbite	Passive	Gives your Chill effects a 10% chance to freeze the target for 4 sec.
Piercing Cold	Passive	Frostbolt and Icicle critical strike damage increased by 20%.
Perpetual Winter	Passive	Flurry now has 2 charges.
Lonely Winter	Passive	Frostbolt, Ice Lance, and Flurry deal 15% increased damage.
Permafrost Lances	Passive	Frozen Orb increases Ice Lance's damage by 15% for 15 sec.
Bone Chilling	Passive	Whenever you attempt to chill a target, you gain Bone Chilling, increasing spell damage you deal by 0.5% for 8 sec, stacking up to 10 times.
Comet Storm	Instant - 40 Yd Range - 30 Sec Cooldown	Calls down a series of 7 icy comets on and around the target, that deals up to 21,324 Frost damage to all enemies within 6 yds of its impacts.
Frozen Touch	Passive - 30 Sec Cooldown	Frostbolt grants you Fingers of Frost 25% more often and Brain Freeze 20% more often.
Wintertide	Passive	Increases Frostbolt damage by 10%. Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lances deal 20% increased damage to Frozen targets.
Ice Caller	Passive	Each time Blizzard deals damage, the cooldown of Frozen Orb is reduced by 0.5 sec.
Flash Freeze	Passive	Each of your Icicles deals 10% additional damage, and when an Icicle deals damage you have a 5% chance to gain the Fingers of Frost effect.
Subzero	Passive	Your Frost spells deal 10% more damage to targets that are rooted and frozen.
Deep Shatter	Passive	Your Frostbolt deals 25% additional damage to Frozen targets.
Icy Veins	Instant - 2 Min Cooldown	Accelerates your spellcasting for 25 sec, granting 20% haste and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts. Activating Icy Veins summons a water elemental to your side for its duration. The water elemental's abilities grant you Frigid Empowerment, increasing the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.
Splintering Cold	Passive	Frostbolt and Flurry have a 30% chance to generate 2 Icicles.
Glacial Assault	Passive	Your Comet Storm now increases the damage enemies take from you by 6% for 6 sec and Flurry has a 25% chance each hit to call down an icy comet, crashing into your target and nearby enemies for 1,844 Frost damage.
Freezing Rain	Passive	Frozen Orb makes Blizzard instant cast and increases its damage done by 60% for 12 sec.
Thermal Void	Passive	Icy Veins' duration is increased by 5 sec. Your Ice Lances against frozen targets extend your Icy Veins by an additional 0.5 sec.
Splitting Ice	Passive	Your Ice Lance and Icicles now deal 5% increased damage, and hit a second nearby target for 90% of their damage. Your Glacial Spike also hits a second nearby target for 100% of its damage.
Chain Reaction	Passive	Your Ice Lances against frozen targets increase the damage of your Ice Lances by 2% for 10 sec, stacking up to 5 times.
Fractured Frost	Passive	While Icy Veins is active, your Frostbolts hit up to 2 additional targets and their damage is increased by 15%.
Freezing Winds	Passive	While Frozen Orb is active, you gain Fingers of Frost every 3 sec.
Slick Ice	Passive	While Icy Veins is active, each Frostbolt you cast reduces the cast time of Frostbolt by 4% and increases its damage by 4%, stacking up to 5 times.
Hailstones	Passive	Casting Ice Lance on Frozen targets has a 100% chance to generate an Icicle.
Ray of Frost	Channeled - 40 Yd Range - 1 Min Cooldown	Channel an icy beam at the enemy for 4.5 sec, dealing 14,891 Frost damage every 0.9 sec and slowing movement by 60%. Each time Ray of Frost deals damage, its damage and snare increases by 10%. Generates 2 charges of Fingers of Frost over its duration.
Death's Chill	Passive	While Icy Veins is active, damaging an enemy with Frostbolt increases spell damage by 1%. Stacks up to 15 times.
Cold Front	Passive	Casting 30 Frostbolts or Flurries calls down a Frozen Orb toward your target. Hitting an enemy player counts as double.
Coldest Snap	Passive	Cone of Cold's cooldown is increased to 45 sec and if Cone of Cold hits 3 or more enemies it resets the cooldown of Frozen Orb and Comet Storm. In addition, Cone of Cold applies Winter's Chill to all enemies hit. Cone of Cold's cooldown can no longer be reduced by your cooldown reduction effects.
Glacial Spike	2.8 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Conjures a massive spike of ice, and merges your current Icicles into it. It impales your target, dealing 36,085 damage plus all of the damage stored in your Icicles, and freezes the target in place for 4 sec. Damage may interrupt the freeze effect. Requires 5 Icicles to cast. assive: Ice Lance no longer launches Icicles.
Cryopathy	Passive	Each time you consume Fingers of Frost the damage of your next Ray of Frost is increased by 5%, stacking up to 50%. Icy Veins grants 10 stacks instantly.
Splintering Ray	Passive	Ray of Frost deals 30% of its damage to 5 nearby enemies.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow for deeper customization of the Frost Mage class fantasy, further enhancing its combat effectiveness.

Spellslinger

Name	Cast	Effect
Splintering Sorcery	Passive	When you consume Nether Precision, conjure 2 Arcane Splinters that fire at your target. rcane Splinter: Conjure raw Arcane magic into a sharp projectile that deals 1,890 Arcane damage. Arcane Splinters embed themselves into their target, dealing 1,890 Arcane damage over 18 sec. This effect stacks.
Augury Abounds	Passive	Casting Arcane Surge conjures 8 Arcane Splinters. During Arcane Surge, whenever you conjure an Arcane Splinter, you have a 100% chance to conjure an additional Arcane Splinter.
Controlled Instincts	Passive	For 8 seconds after being struck by an Arcane Orb, 20% of the direct damage dealt by an Arcane Splinter is also dealt to nearby enemies. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.
Splintering Orbs	Passive	Enemies damaged by your Arcane Orb conjure 2 Arcane Splinters, up to 4. Arcane Orb damage is increased by 10%.
Slippery Slinging	Passive	You have 40% increased movement speed during Alter Time.
Look Again	Passive	Displacement has a 50% longer duration and 25% longer range.
Reactive Barrier	Passive	Your Prismatic Barrier can absorb up to 50% more damage based on your missing Health. Max effectiveness when under 50% health.
Phantasmal Image	Passive	Your Mirror Image summons one extra clone. Mirror Image now reduces all damage taken by an additional 5%.
Volatile Magic	Passive	Whenever an Embedded Arcane Splinter is removed, it explodes, dealing 550 Arcane damage to nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 5 targets.
Unerring Proficiency	Passive	Each time you conjure an Arcane Splinter, increase the damage of your next Supernova by 20%. Stacks up to 30 times.
Shifting Shards	Passive	Shifting Power fires a barrage of 8 Arcane Splinters at random enemies within 40 yds over its duration.
Signature Spell	Passive	When your Magi's Spark explodes, you conjure 6 Arcane Splinters.
Force of Will	Passive	Gain 2% increased critical strike chance. Gain 5% increased critical strike damage.
Spellfrost Teachings	Passive	Direct damage from Arcane Splinters has a small chance to launch an Arcane Orb at 50% effectiveness and increase all damage dealt by Arcane Orb by 10% for 10 sec.
Splinterstorm	Passive	Whenever you have 8 or more active Embedded Arcane Splinters, you automatically cast a Splinterstorm at your target. plinterstorm: Shatter all Embedded Arcane Splinters, dealing their remaining periodic damage instantly. Conjure an Arcane Splinter for each Splinter shattered, then unleash them all in a devastating barrage, dealing 1,890 Arcane damage to your target for each Splinter in the Splinterstorm. Splinterstorm has a 5% chance to grant Clearcasting.

Frostfire

Name	Cast	Effect
Frostfire Mastery	Passive	Your damaging Fire spells generate 1 stack of Fire Mastery and Frost spells generate 1 stack of Frost Mastery. Fire Mastery increases your haste by 2%, and Frost Mastery increases your Mastery by 2% for 14 sec, stacking up to 6 times each. Adding stacks does not refresh duration.
Imbued Warding	Passive
Meltdown	Passive	You melt slightly out of your Ice Block and Ice Cold, allowing you to move slowly during Ice Block and increasing your movement speed over time. Ice Block and Ice Cold trigger a Blazing Barrier when they end.
Frostfire Bolt	2 Sec Cast - 40 Yd Range	Launches a bolt of frostfire at the enemy, causing 6,943 Frostfire damage, slowing movement speed by 50%, and causing an additional 2,812 Frostfire damage over 8 sec. Frostfire Bolt generates stacks for both Fire Mastery and Frost Mastery.
Elemental Affinity	Passive
Flame and Frost	Passive
Isothermic Core	Passive	Comet Storm now also calls down a Meteor at 150% effectiveness onto your target's location. Meteor now also calls down a Comet Storm at 200% effectiveness onto your target location.
Severe Temperatures	Passive	Casting damaging Frost or Fire spells has a high chance to increase the damage of your next Frostfire Bolt by 10%, stacking up to 5 times.
Thermal Conditioning	Passive	Frostfire Bolt's cast time is reduced by 10%.
Frostfire Infusion	Passive	Your Frost and Fire spells have a chance to trigger an additional bolt of Frostfire, dealing 3,735 damage. This effect generates Frostfire Mastery when activated.
Excess Frost	Passive	Reaching maximum stacks of Frost Mastery causes your next to also cast Ice Nova at 125% effectiveness. Ice Novas cast this way do not freeze enemies in place. When you consume Excess Frost, the cooldown of is reduced by 5 sec.
Frostfire Empowerment	Passive	Your Frost and Fire spells have a chance to activate Frostfire Empowerment, causing your next Frostfire Bolt to be instant cast, deal 60% increased damage, explode for 80% of its damage to nearby enemies.
Excess Fire	Passive	Reaching maximum stacks of Fire Mastery causes your next to explode in a Frostfire Burst, dealing 8,588 Frostfire damage to nearby enemies. Damage reduced beyond 8 targets. Frostfire Burst, .
Flash Freezeburn	Passive	Frostfire Empowerment grants you maximum benefit of Frostfire Mastery and refreshes its duration. Activating Combustion or Icy Veins grants you Frostfire Empowerment.

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with War Mode enabled, these talents optimize a Frost Mage 's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players.

Name	Cast	Effect
Icy Feet		When your Frost Nova or Water Elemental's Freeze is dispelled or removed, become immune to snares for 3 sec. This effect can only occur once every 10 sec.
Concentrated Coolness		Frozen Orb's damage is increased by 10% and is now castable at a location with a 40 yard range but no longer moves.
Ice Form		Your body turns into Ice, increasing your Frostbolt damage done by 30% and granting immunity to stun and knockback effects. Lasts 12 sec.
Ice Wall		Conjures an Ice Wall 30 yards long that obstructs line of sight. The wall has 40% of your maximum health and lasts up to 15 sec.
Ring of Fire		Summons a Ring of Fire for 8 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring burn for 18% of their total health over 6 sec.
Frost Bomb		Places a Frost Bomb on the target. After 5 sec, the bomb explodes, dealing 36,854 Frost damage to the target and 18,334 Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards. All affected targets are slowed by 70% for 4 sec. If Frost Bomb is dispelled before it explodes, gain a charge of Brain Freeze.
Snowdrift		Summon a strong Blizzard that surrounds you for 6 sec that slows enemies by 70% and deals 1,125 Frost damage every 1 sec. Enemies that are caught in Snowdrift for 2 sec consecutively become Frozen in ice, stunned for 4 sec.
Master Shepherd		While an enemy player is affected by your Polymorph or Mass Polymorph, your movement speed is increased by 25% and your Versatility is increased by 12%. Additionally, Polymorph and Mass Polymorph no longer heal enemies.
Ethereal Blink		Blink and Shimmer apply Slow at 100% effectiveness to all enemies you Blink through. For each enemy you Blink through, the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 1 sec, up to 5 sec.
Improved Mass Invisibility		The cooldown of Mass Invisibility is reduced by 4 min and can affect allies in combat.