Frostbrand Weapon

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Frostbrand Weapon
Frostbrand Weapon 6% of base mana Instant cast 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 30 minutes.
Usable by
Class	Shaman
Properties
Type	Offensive
School	Frost
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Talents
Talented	No
Other information
Ranks	9
Requirements	Melee Weapon

Rank tableEdit

Rank	Level	Damage	Cost
1	20	42	22
2	28	63	60
3	38	101	1 10
4	48	160	2 20
5	58	210	3 20
6	66	259	5 80
7	71	391	18
8	76	463	18
9	80	530	18

Talents that can improve the weapon buff:

	Talent Points Needed	Type	Description	Talent Points Available
	25	Enhancement	Frozen Power	2

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 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): Fixed a bug where rank 9 was not scaling properly with a shaman's spell power.
Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Damage increased by approximately 20%.
Patch 1.6.0 (2005-07-12): 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.

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