Winter's Chill, a WoW Forever Mage talent, in words

What it does Frost row 6

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  Winter's Chill5 ranks · passiveRequires 25 points in Frost Talents (level 35).Rank 1: Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% 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 1 times.Rank 2: Gives your Frost damage spells a 40% 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 2 times.Rank 3: Gives your Frost damage spells a 60% 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 3 times.Rank 4: Gives your Frost damage spells a 80% 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 4 times.Rank 5: 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.Changed from Classic. Classic 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 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

What changed from Classic

• Classic rank 1Gives 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 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
• WoW Forever rank 1Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% 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 1 times.

Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds

• 21% of Mage buildsTaken in 21% of the 21,981 complete Mage builds planned here, Sep 13 to 30, 2026.
• 0% of Arcane buildsTaken in 0% of the 5,783 builds that lead in Arcane.
• 0% of Fire buildsTaken in 0% of the 6,467 builds that lead in Fire.
• 60% of Frost buildsTaken in 60% of the 9,731 builds that lead in Frost, its own tree.
• How it is countedEach build counts by what people did with it (opened, shared, saved), the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Updated daily, last on 2026-09-30.

Around it in the Frost tree

• Row above (level 30)Improved Cone of Cold, Cold Snap, Fingers of Frost.
• Row below (level 40)Ice Barrier.

Every Frost talent 19

• Frost Wardingrow 1
• Improved Frostboltrow 1
• Elemental Precisionrow 1
• Ice Shardsrow 2
• Permafrostrow 2
• Improved Frost Novarow 2
• Frostbiterow 2
• Piercing Icerow 3
• Frost Channelingrow 3
• Ice Lancerow 3
• Improved Blizzardrow 3
• Arctic Reachrow 4
• Ice Blockrow 4
• Shatterrow 4
• Improved Cone of Coldrow 5
• Cold Snaprow 5
• Fingers of Frostrow 5
• Winter's Chillrow 6
• Ice Barrierrow 7

Every Arcane talent 18

• Wand Specializationrow 1
• Arcane Focusrow 1
• Improved Channelingrow 1
• Arcane Subtletyrow 2
• Magic Absorptionrow 2
• Arcane Concentrationrow 2
• Arcane Resiliencerow 2
• Arcane Geometryrow 3
• Arcane Impactrow 3
• Arcane Blastrow 3
• Arcane Shieldingrow 4
• Improved Counterspellrow 4
• Arcane Meditationrow 4
• Missile Barragerow 4
• Presence of Mindrow 5
• Arcane Mindrow 5
• Arcane Instabilityrow 6
• Arcane Powerrow 7

Every Fire talent 17

• Wake of Firerow 1
• Incinerationrow 1
• Improved Fireballrow 1
• Igniterow 2
• Flame Throwingrow 2
• Impactrow 2
• Burning Soulrow 3
• Improved Flamestrikerow 3
• Pyroblastrow 3
• Improved Scorchrow 4
• Improved Fire Wardrow 4
• Hot Streakrow 4
• Master of Elementsrow 4
• Critical Massrow 5
• Blast Waverow 5
• Fire Powerrow 6
• Combustionrow 7