Frostbite, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Frostbite is a passive talent in row 2 of the Frost tree. It needs 5 points in Frost, so the earliest you can take it is level 15 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It moved since Classic Era, from row 2, column 2 to row 2, column 4 of the Frost tree.

Frostbite

3 ranks

Requires 5 points in Frost

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

Every rank of Frostbite

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

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Frost tree

Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

Row above (row 1)

Row below (row 3)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Frostbite.

Compared with Classic Era

Frostbite moved from row 2, column 2 to row 2, column 4 of the Frost tree.

Its rank 1 text differs from Classic only in capitalization, punctuation or spacing.

Position

Classic Era

Frost, row 2, column 2

WoW Forever

Frost, row 2, column 4

Rank 1 text Formatting only

Classic Era

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

WoW Forever

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

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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.