Permafrost, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Permafrost 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 has changed since Classic Era.

Permafrost

3 ranks

Requires 5 points in Frost

Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 11% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 3%.

Every rank of Permafrost

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 11% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 3%.
Rank 2	Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 22% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 7%.
Rank 3	Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 33% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 10%.

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 Permafrost.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text and its position.

Position

Classic Era

Frost, row 2, column 4

WoW Forever

Frost, row 2, column 2

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 1 sec and reduces the target's speed by an additional 4%.

WoW Forever

Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 11% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 3%.

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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.