Cold Snap, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever
Cold Snap is an active talent in row 5 of the Frost tree. It needs 20 points in Frost, so the earliest you can take it is level 30 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It has changed since Classic Era.
Cold Snap
1 rank
- Instant
- 10 min cooldown
- Requires 20 points in Frost
Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells.
Every rank of Cold Snap
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells. |
Where it sits in the Frost tree
- Needs
- No prerequisite talent
- Unlocks
- That talent needs Cold Snap at 1/1.
- Same row
- Row above (row 4)
- Row below (row 6)
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Cold Snap.
Compared with Classic Era
What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text and its position.
Position
Frost, row 3, column 2
Frost, row 5, column 2
Rank 1 text
When activated, this spell finishes the cooldown on all of your Frost spells.
Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells.
Open the Mage talent calculator
All Frost talents
- Frost Warding
- Improved Frostbolt
- Elemental Precision
- Ice Shards
- Permafrost
- Improved Frost Nova
- Frostbite
- Piercing Ice
- Frost Channeling
- Ice Lance
- Improved Blizzard
- Arctic Reach
- Ice Block
- Shatter
- Improved Cone of Cold
- Cold Snap
- Fingers of Frost
- Winter's Chill
- Ice Barrier
The other Mage trees: Arcane and Fire. Everything that changed for the Mage since Classic is on the changes page.
Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.