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Fingers of Frost
Ability mage wintersgrasp
  • Fingers of Frost
  • Row 2 Frost mage talent
  • Passive
  • Frostbolt has a 15% chance and Frozen Orb damage has a 10% to grant a charge of Fingers of Frost.

    Fingers of Frost causes your next Ice Lance to deal damage as if the target were frozen.

    Maximum 2 charges.
Properties
Class Mage
Talents
Talent required Spell frost frostblast [Ice Lance]
Other information
Affects Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt], Spell frost frozenorb [Frozen Orb]
Improvements Ability hunter pointofnoescape [Cryopathy]
Related buff
Ability mage wintersgrasp
  • Fingers of Frost
  • Your next Ice Lance deals damage as if the target were frozen.
  • Duration: 15 seconds
  • Max stacks: 2

Fingers of Frost is a Frost mage talent.

Notes[]

  • By treating the target as if it were frozen, abilities empowered by Fingers of Frost also benefit from Spell frost frostshock [Shatter].
  • This effect works against enemies that are immune to being frozen, such as raid bosses.

Improvements[]

Class talents
Frost talents

Trivia[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 2 Frost talent (was a level 13 Frost ability).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 13 (was 24).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Spell frost icestorm [Blizzard] no longer activates Fingers of Frost.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now has a 12% chance to proc from Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt] and Spell frost frozenorb [Frozen Orb] (down from 15%) and no longer increases Spell frost frostblast [Ice Lance] damage. No longer activates from Ability mage frostfirebolt [Frostfire Bolt].
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now increases Ice Lance damage by 140% (up from 100%).
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-10-15): Fingers of Frost rate of activation for Frostbolt and Frostfire Bolt should now correctly factor in the bonus from using the glyphed version of Icy Veins.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 100%, up from 25%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.3.0 (2013-05-21): The tooltip no longer incorrectly lists Spell fire soulburn [Scorch].
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now has a 15% (was 12%) chance to activate from Frostbolt, Frostfire Bolt and Frozen Orb, and a 5% (was 4%) chance to activate from Spell frost icestorm [Blizzard]. No longer affects Scorch.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Slightly redesigned as a level 24 Frost ability (was a tier 3 Frost talent). Your successful Frostbolts, Frostfire Bolts and Frozen Orb hits have a 12% chance, your Blizzard ticks have a 4% chance, and your successful Scorches have a 9% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect.
    Old: Gives your Chill effects a 7/14/20% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28): All class abilities which place a buff on friendly targets no longer generate any threat.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Hotfix (2010-02-08): Rank 2 of Fingers of Frost now has the correct proc chance.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Can no longer be dispelled and now also increases Ice Lance damage by 15%.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2010-12-14): Spell firefrost orb [Frostfire Orb] cannot trigger Fingers of Frost if Rank 2 of Frostfire Orb is not learned.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2010-11-30): When Freeze misses or resists on the first target, but is successful on another target, the mage will correctly get the Fingers of Frost procs from the target successfully hit.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Proc chance is now 7/14/20%, down from 10/20/30%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Changed from 2 to 3 ranks and moved from tier 8 to tier 3. Chance to proc is now 10/20/30%, up from 7/15%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Mages with Ability mage moltenarmor [Molten Armor] active who have the Spell frost frostshock [Shatter] talent will no longer lose Fingers of Frost charges when Molten Armor causes reactive damage. In addition, the effect from this talent now displays the number of charges on the buff icon.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): This talent now triggers immediately on casting a spell rather than being delayed until the spell strikes the target.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): This talent can now trigger properly from Spell frost frostarmor02 [Frost Armor].
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.

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