2026-10-27 · Change
Now: Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 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. Was: Gives your Frost damage spells a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the damage done by your Cone of Cold spell to the target by 40%, stacking up to 5 times.
Evidence: datamined · Availability in this report: live
Sources: Game files · live build 1.60.1.70630
2026-10-16 · Change
Now: Gives your Frost damage spells a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the damage done by your Cone of Cold spell to the target by 40%, stacking up to 5 times. Was: Gives your Frost damage spells a 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 5 times.
Evidence: datamined · Availability in this report: live
Sources: Game files · beta build 1.60.1.70425
2026-10-16 · Rework
Redesigned: no longer increases crit chance, instead boosts Cone of Cold damage per stack, consumed on next Cone of Cold
Evidence: datamined · Availability in this report: unknown
Sources: WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15
2026-10-16 · Rework
Further redesign: now a proc chance from Frostbolt/Frost Blast/Fingers of Frost Ice Lance that boosts next Cone of Cold damage and adds spell damage per stack
Evidence: datamined · Availability in this report: unknown
Sources: WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15
2026-10-01 · Fix
Application no longer rolls for resist
Evidence: confirmed · Availability in this report: live
Sources: WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 1