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Winter's Chill, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Winter's Chill is a passive talent in row 6 of the Frost tree. It needs 25 points in Frost, so the earliest you can take it is level 35 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Winter's Chill

5 ranks

  • Requires 25 points in Frost

Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 1 times.

Every rank of Winter's Chill

RankText
Rank 1Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 1 times.
Rank 2Gives your Frost damage spells a 40% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 2 times.
Rank 3Gives your Frost damage spells a 60% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 3 times.
Rank 4Gives your Frost damage spells a 80% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 4 times.
Rank 5Gives your Frost damage spells a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Frost tree

Frost WardingImproved FrostboltElemental PrecisionIce ShardsPermafrostImproved Frost NovaFrostbitePiercing IceFrost ChannelingIce LanceImproved BlizzardArctic ReachIce BlockShatterImproved Cone of ColdCold SnapFingers of FrostWinter's ChillIce Barrier
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
None
Row above (row 5)
Row below (row 7)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

WoW Forever

Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 1 times.

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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.