Improved Frost Nova, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever
Improved Frost Nova 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 2 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.
Improved Frost Nova
2 ranks
- Requires 5 points in Frost
Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 2 sec.
Every rank of Improved Frost Nova
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 2 sec. |
| Rank 2 | Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 4 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 Improved Frost Nova.
Compared with Classic Era
Improved Frost Nova is the same as in Classic Era.
It sits in the same place, has the same number of ranks and has the same rank 1 text.
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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.