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| Empowered Frostbolt
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| Your Frostbolt spell gains an additional 2n% of your bonus spell damage effects and an additional n% chance to critically strike.
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| Usable by
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| Class
| Mage
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| Properties
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| Location
| Frost, Tier 8
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| Affects
| Frostbolt
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| Ranks
| 5
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| Requirements
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| Points required
| 35
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Empowered Frostbolt is a mage talent that increases Frostbolt's spell damage bonus by 2% per rank, up to 10% at rank 5, and increases its critical strike chance by 1% per rank, up to 5% at rank 5. Frostbolt normally has a spell damage bonus of 81.4% of total Frost spell damage. The bonus from the talent is additive, with rank 5 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 | Critical Strike Chance
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| 1 | 2% | 1%
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| 2 | 4% | 2%
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| 3 | 6% | 3%
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| 4 | 8% | 4%
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| 5 | 10% | 5%
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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.
