Fingers of Frost, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Fingers of Frost is a passive 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 2 ranks. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Fingers of Frost

2 ranks

  • Requires 20 points in Frost
  • Requires Ice Lance at 1/1

Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 1 spell cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.

Every rank of Fingers of Frost

RankText
Rank 1Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 1 spell cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.
Rank 2Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 2 spells cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.

Where it sits in the Frost tree

Needs
Unlocks
No talent needs it
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 Fingers of Frost.

Compared with Classic Era

Fingers of Frost has no Classic counterpart: the data lists it as new in Forever.

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All Frost talents

  1. Frost Warding
  2. Improved Frostbolt
  3. Elemental Precision
  4. Ice Shards
  5. Permafrost
  6. Improved Frost Nova
  7. Frostbite
  8. Piercing Ice
  9. Frost Channeling
  10. Ice Lance
  11. Improved Blizzard
  12. Arctic Reach
  13. Ice Block
  14. Shatter
  15. Improved Cone of Cold
  16. Cold Snap
  17. Fingers of Frost
  18. Winter's Chill
  19. 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.