- 0 Talk
-
Brain Freeze
| Brain Freeze | |
|---|---|
| |
| Usable by | |
| Class | Mage |
| Properties | |
| Location | Frost, Tier 4 |
| Affects | Chill effects |
| Ranks | 3 |
| Requirements | |
| Points required | 15 points in Frost talents |
| Related buff | |
| |
Brain Freeze is a Mage talent in the Frost tree. It makes the Frost Mage's spells which cause chill effects (such as Cone of Cold and Frostbolt) have a chance to grant them an instant-cast Fireball or Frostfire Bolt at zero mana cost.
Contents |
Rank table
Edit
| Rank | Chance to buff |
|---|---|
| 1 | 5% |
| 2 | 10% |
| 3 | 15% |
UsesEdit
PvEEdit
This talent is often part of deep Frost Mage PvE builds. The Brain Freeze Frostfire Bolt is your number one spell to cast with Fingers of Frost when Deep Freeze isn't up.
The Frost tree, however, is already the most mana-efficient stand-alone tree between the three Mage talent trees without this talent. Its rather large DPS increase for frost mages.
In the end, whether or not taking this talent is up to the player's opinion of whether Brain Freeze's soloing and PvP convenience or an extra few percent of raid DPS are worth more.
PvPEdit
This talent allows for great mobility in PvP, giving the Frost Mage even stronger burst potential. It is recommended that the instant Frostfire Bolt be saved for a non-Frozen target, as Ice Lance isn't usable to great effect on those. The chills on frost damage spells such as Frostbolt, Cone of Cold and Blizzard (through Improved Blizzard) can trigger it.
NoteEdit
The buff given by this, although displayed as "Brain Freeze" on the tooltip, is actually named "Fireball!", which means any addons that display when you gain a specific aura will not pick this up unless you enter "Fireball!" as the aura's name. This is also the case with a /cancelaura command.
Patch changes Edit
-
Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): This talent now allows your next Fireball or Frostfire Bolt to be instant and cost no mana. There is a small internal cooldown to keep the Frostfire Bolt from immediately triggering Brain Freeze again.
External links Edit
| |||||||||||
