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Winter's Chill

Talent · Mage · Frost

Client build 1.60.1.70630 · read 2026-10-27

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Current client record

Rank 1

Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 20% 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.

Rank 2

Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 40% 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.

Rank 3

Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 60% 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.

Rank 4

Gives your Frostbolt, Frost Blast, and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 80% 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.

Rank 5

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.

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Sourced change history

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

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

Record ID: mage-11180 · JSON record · How to read the evidence