Cold Snap (Mage talent)
From WoWWiki
| Cold Snap | |
|---|---|
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| Usable by | |
| Class | Mage |
| Properties | |
| Type | Utility |
| School | Frost |
| Cooldown | 8 min. |
| Talents | |
| Talented | Yes |
| Talent tree | Frost |
| Talent required | 20 |
| Improvement talents | Ice Floes |
Cold Snap is a talent trained mage spell that resets the cooldowns of all Frost spells. These include Frost Nova, Ice Block, Cone of Cold, Summon Water Elemental. It is a vital requirement for any Frost build. It is most commonly used both as an emergency spell and as a defense type spell, in which case it is used to reset the cooldowns of Summon Water Elemental and Ice Block. Cold Snap cannot be used while under crowd control effects, such as Fear, Freezing Trap, Sap, Polymorph, Blind, Mind Control. Cold Snap is particularly useful in arenas, as its cooldown is reset upon entering. This means it can be used every arena.
Tips
Cold Snap does not get locked out by counterspell interrupts when the Frost school is interrupted. Cold Snap will reset the cooldowns as long as the mage is not also silenced. This can be useful in emergencies, where the frost school is locked and the mage needs to Ice Block or use another frost escape. This is, however, a costly use of a long cooldown ability.
Known bugs
Cold Snap sometimes fails to reset cooldowns for all frost spells. This is a very rare, but unintended occurrence.
Past changes
Patch 2.0.1 (12/5/06): The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it only resets cooldowns caused by Frost spells. e.g.: Cold Snap will not reset the cooldown caused by Dragon's Breath (which has a shared cooldown with Cone of Cold).
Patch 2.3.2 (1/8/08): Cooldown has been reduced to 8 minutes. With the talent Ice Floes 2/2 it is reduced to 6.4 minute cooldown. Talent also no longer resets the cooldown of Fire Ward.
