Frostbite

Mage · Frost · opens at 5 points spent · 3 ranks

Frostbite works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Frostbite ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Chill effects a 5% chance to freeze the target for 5 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Gives your Chill effects a 10% chance to freeze the target for 5 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to freeze the target for 5 sec.

Where Frostbite sits in the Frost tree

Frostbite is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 5 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Frostbite

32 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 28% — put at least one point in Frostbite. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage