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Comment by 1515

I would really recommend getting this talent if your a Frost Mage. It can mean life or death when your fleeing, and can prove to be just downright handy.

Comment by 6764

even though it can be quite useful for solo grinding and 5man instances; it has next to no benefit for raid dps. this is why you will not see in most raiding builds around. for pvp, its not exactly reliable but can save your life in unexpected cases; but again going for the talents that you can actually rely on excludes the use of frostbite in most of the high level builds.

Comment by rays

What's unusual about Frostbite is that it can proc on Ragnaros and none of the other major 40-man bosses.

Comment by 9633

This is a great talent for PVP especially when a rogue gets the jump on you. This procs quite often with their attack speed and if you can get a blink in-between the stunlock while they're frozen, it's pretty much game over for them, kite them with rank one frostbolt and pound on them with your instants, unloading a full rank frostbolt whenever they're frozen.

One thing to be aware of however, if you plan to do any improved blizzard aoe kiting this WILL ruin your day. Having it randomly proc on some of the mobs breaks up the clump and results in some of them not being caught in the next blizzard and coming over to pound on you.

Comment by 9250

List of spells that trigger this effect:
Frost/Ice armor
Frostbolt
Cone of Cold
Blizzard (with improved blizzard)

Comment by 30584

It's great how this works with Frost Armor, when adds attack you they randomly freeze, giving you a chance to flee.

Comment by 54514

After playing with this a bit, I've noticed a couple of things:

It will overwrite itself if you manage to proc it twice consecutively - This is great for frostbolt spamming.

It will overwrite rank 1 Frost Nova - I don't know about higher ranks as my mage isn't that high yet.

All in all a very handy talent!

Comment by Sounder

I just started using Frostbite on the Mage I'm levelling, and I keep noticing occasions when both the freeze and unfreeze sound effects occur at the same time on a Frostbolt hit. It's as if the Freeze effect granted by a FrB can break from the same FrB's damage.

Is that what's happening? Is it a bug?

Edit: yes, and yes. Blue says on 11/20 it's supposed to be fixed in "the next patch", which presumably means 2.3.2. http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=2969687872&postId=30553525436&sid=1#130

Comment by Devinicus

Just as a random note.

If you plan on doing a great deal of AoE (mostly in the context of soloing/farming, though there ARE a few instances in which a mage can actually do AoE mob kiting in instances and basically be a DPS tank if they're good at what they do), DO NOT GET THIS TALENT.

DO NOT.

The talented effect from Blizzard will proc Frostbite, which will draw mobs out into a long, randomly strung-out line, and make it near-impossible (and totally impossible beyond three or four mobs at once) to control where your little herd of mobs will go.

In my book, there are two kinds of mage. Frostbite crit mages, and non-Frostbite AoE/spell damage mages. Personally, I prefer not relying on crits and just hitting like a damned truck with my Frostbolts AND being able to AoE like a mother, but that's just me.

Remember, choosing Frostbite or not will (radically) change how you play and perhaps even gear your mage.

Comment by Flaks

I understand it's amazing utility in pvp but really have a problem with the randomness factor; it's almost like mace stun only not as op. To balance it out (as they are doing with everything that adds major randomness to pvp) is make it so that frostbite takes effect after a chill effect wears off or something of the like so you KNOW when it will happen or, if you're really skilled, cause it to happen when it is needed. (of course other ideas are welcome but I personally believe that the talent can be redone to the effect of increasing it's utility and decreasing randomness in pvp)

Comment by 254110

Does this affect Frostfire Bolt. Im sure it does im just wondering

Comment by 241152

unlike frost nova, frostbite does not break after a certain amount of damage, nor does it have a high chance to break after a crit. It breaks when the 5 seconds are up.

Comment by 281263

Does this add to the proc chance of Fingers of Frost?

I play Mage a little differently, after Wrath of the Glitch King came out, I decided since PvP is really broken and undergoing a lot of adjustments, I'll stick to PvE, also for the storyline to finally pick up from Pre-BC. Frost? PvE? Yes, I discovered a nice talent setup deep through the Frost Tree as the new gear for Mages included a lot of Spell Haste, and Crit. This talent, Frostbite, was one of the talent points I took up because I figured it would inscrease the chance that Fingers of Frost would pop up. Now of course, there are many NPC's in raids that cannot be slowed, chilled, stunned, or CC'd in any kind of way of a Mage, but it IS true that this doubles the chance of Fingers of Frost against normal NPC's that are able to be frozen. It seems in Naxxarmus as though, Fingers of Frost occurs on about 30% of the time, but it could also have been the extra proc WHILE the Fingers of Frost was active (notice Fingers of Frost lasts TWO spells).

I'd like some confirmation that this is helpful in End-Game raiding, for the purpose of increasing the chance of Fingers of Frost to happen. Because it's a nice combo with Shatter.

Comment by 119864

IMO this talent should have some cooldown. Like "This effect can only appear once in 8sec." or so. It's really annoying with feral druid and other meele classes (maybe not for rpala or rogue). Sometimes you can be so unlucky that Frostbite effect appears on ~every hit. P.S. It's still annoying even I can shift out of it.

Comment by MadBro

Anybody can confirm, that Fingers of Frost/Frostbite still proc with Glyph of Frostbolt?

Comment by Norrinir

Currently, when specced into Fingers of Frost, Frostbite and Fingers of Frost proc together.

Note: it depends on the actual number of talent points spent in FoF, the described situation occurs 100% when FoF and Frostbite are fully specced - both having 15% chance to proc

Comment by 422048

It's a great thing to use in bg's. with your frost armor up, a person could be trying to kill you, and suddenly they freeze! a great talent. also great with more talents in the frost tree.

Comment by Roxon

Anyone else noticed as his/her Frostbite can actually miss when the spell lands? It's rather annoying. (Bug?)

Comment by 459511

if you're a warr, and you get this on your ass you just lost the fight.
1 tier talent point decides the battle mage vs warr, nice :P

Comment by daedly

this only seems to proc when i'm 90% pressed the button for frost nova, i think just to spite me.

Comment by 146819

More useful for leveling (at least in the early-mid teens) than one might think. An early proc on a melee mob gives you more time to blast it before it starts pounding on you, so you've got a better chance of surviving.

Also good when you're trying to run away from melee-heavy mobs and your Frost Nova is on CD (it missed/got resisted, they weren't in range, they just aggro'd, etc.).

Comment by 499488

Actually it does not always proc at the same time as FoF, its just that when FoF procs, frostbite procs too, the other way around is not true(when frostbite procs, FoF does not always proc).

Comment by 351752

does this proc on bosses?...if it does not, i dont see the point of getting these other then leveling and PVPing am i right?

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Frostbite

Frostbite

Talent

Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to freeze the target for 5 sec.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Frost

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Dispel type

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n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect

Apply Aura: Proc Spell on Target
Value: 15
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Frostbolt	Cone of Cold	Frostbolt
	Frostbolt	Frostbolt	Frostbolt
	Frostbolt	Frostbolt	Cone of Cold
	Cone of Cold	Cone of Cold	Cone of Cold
	Frostbolt	Frostbolt	Frostbolt
	Frostbolt	Frostbolt	Frostbolt
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	Cone of Cold	Frostbolt	Frostbolt
	Frostbolt	Cone of Cold	Cone of Cold
	Frostfire Bolt	Frostfire Bolt

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Frostbite

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