Frostbrand Weapon

Frostbrand Weapon
Frostbrand Weapon 7.0% of base mana Instant cast Requires Melee Weapon Imbue the Shaman's weapon with frost. Each hit has a chance of causing X additional Frost damage and slowing the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 sec. Lasts 60 minutes.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Frost
Casting time	Instant cast
Cooldown	(GCD 1.5 sec)
Level required	46
Other information
Requirements	Requires Melee Weapon
Related debuff
Frostbrand Attack Movement slowed by 50%. Duration: 8 seconds

• Frostbrand Weapon
• 7.0% of base mana
• Instant cast
• Imbue the Shaman's weapon with frost. Each hit has a chance of causing X additional Frost damage and slowing the target's movement speed by 50% for 8 sec. Lasts 60 minutes.

Frostbrand Weapon is a core shaman ability learned at level 46. It allows shamans to enchant their weapon, allowing a chance for additional frost damage and a chance to slow the target for a short duration.

Modified by

• [Unleashed Fury] (talent)
• [Unleash Elements] (core ability; grants [Unleash Frost])
• [Elemental Focus] ( elemental spec ability)
• [Mastery: Enhanced Elements] ( enhancement spec ability)

Tips

• Combat parses after the 1.11 patch have shown that Frostbrand appears to be a proc-per-minute buff. In other words, slower weapons have a higher proc rate, so that the number of procs will be fairly consistent over time, regardless of weapon speed. The proc rate appears to be normalized to roughly 9 procs per minute. You can determine your proc rate with a weapon by dividing 60 by your weapon speed to determine your number of swings per minute. Then you divide 9 by this number, multiply by 100 ( to change the number from 0.xx to xx% ) and the resulting number is the approximate percentage chance to proc Frostbrand on a given swing.

• Frostbrand weapon receives 10% of your spell damage equipment. For example, if you have 200 spell damage on your equipment, each Frostbrand proc will deal 20 additional damage.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Fixed a bug where rank 9 was not scaling properly with a shaman's spell power.
  
• Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): Damage increased by approximately 20%.
  
• / Patch 3.0.2 (14-Oct-2008): Frostbrand’s snare effect has been increased to 50%, up from 25%.
  
• Patch 2.4.2 (2008-05-13): Rank 6 damage has been increased very slightly.
  
• Patch 2.1.2 (2007-06-19): Frostbrand Weapon Rank 5: The damage on this spell was reduced slightly such that it will never do more damage than Frostbrand Rank 6.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (22-May-2007): Rank 6 now properly receives increased effect from spell damage bonuses.
  
• Patch 1.11.1 (28-Jun-2006): Frostbrand and Flametongue weapon buffs are benefited by +spell damage.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (20-Jun-2006): Mana cost has been reduced.
  
• Patch 1.6.0 (12-Jul-2005): Targets that are immune to movement slowing effects will no longer be affected by Frostbrand Weapon's movement slowing effect. Damage will still be caused.
  

See Also

• [Earthliving Weapon] (restoration)
• [Flametongue Weapon]
• [Maelstrom Weapon] (enhancement)
• [Rockbiter Weapon]
• [Windfury Weapon] (enhancement)

External links

• Wowhead
• Thottbot
• WoWDB