Empowered Frostbolt

Empowered Frostbolt
Talent Empowered Frostbolt {{{cast_time}}} sec cast Requires Mage Increases the damage of your Frostbolt spell by an amount equal to X% of your spell power and reduces the cast time by Y sec.
Usable by
Class	Mage
Properties
Type	N/A
School	N/A
Casting time	Unknown sec cast
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Requirements
Location	N/A
Level required	35

• Talent
• Empowered Frostbolt
• {{{cast_time}}} sec cast
• Requires Mage
• Increases the damage of your Frostbolt spell by an amount equal to X% of your spell power and reduces the cast time by Y sec.

Empowered Frostbolt is a mage talent that increases Frostbolt's spell power bonus by 5/10%, and reduces its cast time by 0.1/0.2 sec. Frostbolt normally has a spell damage bonus of 81.4% of total Frost spell damage. The bonus from the talent is additive, with rank 2 Empowered Frostbolt increasing the spell damage bonus to 91.4%. The critical strike chance is additive as well, and only applies to the Frostbolt spell.

Table of ranks

Rank	Spell damage bonus	Cast time reduction
1	5%	0.1 sec
2	10%	0.2 sec

Tips

Empowered Frostbolt is a direct damage increase to the Frostbolt spell, and is valuable in builds that use Frostbolt as a primary damage spell. It is most effective at later levels, when mages have a high amount of spell damage from gear.

Patch changes

• / Patch 4.0.1 (12-Oct-2010): Removed.
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Instead of increasing critical strike chance by 2/4%, this talent now reduces the cast time of Frostbolt by 0.1/0.2 seconds.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Reduced to 2 ranks, increases damage by 5/10% of spell power and increases critical hit chance by 2/4%.
  

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