Permafrost

Permafrost
Talent Permafrost {{{cast_time}}} sec cast Requires Mage Increases the duration of your Chill effects by X secs, reduces the target's speed by an additional Y%, and reduces the target's healing received by Z%.
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	5

• Talent
• Permafrost
• {{{cast_time}}} sec cast
• Requires Mage
• Increases the duration of your Chill effects by X secs, reduces the target's speed by an additional Y%, and reduces the target's healing received by Z%.

Permafrost is a mage talent that increases the effectiveness of the mage's chill effects, increasing the duration by 1 sec. per rank, up to 3 sec. max, reduces movement speed by an additional amount, up to 10% at max rank 3, and reduces the target's healing received up to 20% at max rank 3. The additional reduction to movement speed is an additive amount, meaning that a snare that normally slows by 50% will now slow by 60%. This talent is popular with frost mages that do a lot of kiting, either against single mobs or when doing frost AoE grinding on multiple mobs at once.

Uses

Some spells gain a particular advantage from the increased chill duration. Blizzard, with points in Improved Blizzard normally has a chill of 1.5 seconds, which is increased to 4.5 seconds with Permafrost, three times the duration. Cone of Cold normally has a chill duration of 8 seconds, which is increased to 11 seconds with Permafrost, making the duration longer than the spell's cooldown of 10 seconds.

Rank table

Rank	Chill duration increase	Additional snare	Healing reduction
1	1 sec.	4%	7%
2	2 sec.	7%	13%
3	3 sec.	10%	20%

Notes

• This talent can be combined with the deep Frost talent Chilled to the Bone for a total 20% extra snaring power when both are at max rank.
• The debuff triggered by Frostfire Bolt has both the snare and a DoT effect combined, so taking at least two ranks of this talent makes the DoT effect tick one more time.

Patch changes

• Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): In addition to its existing effects, this talent now also causes the mage's Chill effects to reduce healing received by the victim by 7/13/20%.
  

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