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Frostbolt
Spell frost frostbolt02
  • Frostbolt
  • Level 1 mage ability
  • 40 yd range
  • 2% of base mana
  • 2 sec cast
  • Launches a bolt of frost at the enemy, causing (70.14% of Spell power) Frost damage and slowing movement speed by 50% for 8 sec.
Properties
Class Mage
School Frost
Cooldown None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Level learned 1
Related debuff
Ability mage chilledtothebone
  • Magic
  • Chilled
  • Movement speed reduced by 50%.
  • Duration: 8 seconds

Frostbolt is a level 1 mage ability.

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Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-07-24): Damage increased by 150% in PvP Combat (was 100%).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Frostbolt damage reduced by 12%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 116% in PvP combat (was 100%).
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Deals 100% increased damage in PvP combat (was 50%).
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-01-09): Damage increased by 20%.
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage increased by 15%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Damage increased damage by 8%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.0 (2021-06-29): Now deals 100% more damage in PvP combat (was 15%).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): All mages can now use Frostbolt.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Now applies a snare for 8 seconds (was 15 seconds).
  • Legion Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29): Frostbolt has received a new spell animation.
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-01-23): Damage increased by 4%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage reduced by 17%.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 5%. Additionally, Frostbolt now snares targets by 50% in PvE (was 30%).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-10-13): No longer deals increased damage in PvP (was a multiplier of +10%).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-09-23): Damage increased by 8%. Now reduces movement speed by 50% in PvP (PvE value remains 30%). Damage is now increased by 10% in PvP (was 20%).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-08-26): Damage increased to 185% of Spell Power (was 170%). Now deals 20% additional damage in PvP.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Damage reduced by 5%. Now reduces movement speed by 30% (was 50%). Now learned at level 1, but is unavailable to Fire and Arcane.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now deals 20% more damage.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-12-08): Damage increased by 25%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-10-30): Damage reduced by 20%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage increased by 20%.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Frostbolt can no longer be used to heal the mage's Water Elemental.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Now deals 10% less damage and no longer increases the damage of any spells. The damage for those spells have been increased instead.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 12 Frost specialization ability (was a level 7 ability for all mages). Movement speed reduction increased from 40% to 50%, and duration increased from 9 to 15 sec. Now also causes the target to take an additional 8% damage from Frostbolt and Ice Lance, and Water Elemental's Waterbolt, stacking up to 3 times.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Damage has been increased by 10%.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2010-12-02): Damage increased at low levels.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now learned at level 7 (was 4).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): Spell power scaling on this spell has been increased by approximately 5%.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Mana cost reduced by approximately 15%.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Damage on rank 12 was increased slightly to ensure it did more damage than rank 11 at all levels.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): Targets that are immune to movement slowing effects will no longer be affected by Frostbolt's movement slowing effect. Damage will still be caused.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Cast time reduced, damage and mana cost reduced accordingly, slowing effect reduced.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.7 (2004-06-15): Duration increased with each rank.

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