Frostbrand Weapon

Frostbrand Weapon
Frostbrand Weapon (9 ranks) Shaman ability 6% of base mana Instant 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.
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Frost
Cooldown	None/Global Cooldown
Other information
Requirements	Melee Weapon

[[Category:shaman abilities]][[Category:shaman abilities]]

Rank table

Rank	Level	Mana Cost	Damage	Cost
1	20	8% of base mana	35	22
2	28	8% of base mana	53	60
3	38	8% of base mana	84	1 10
4	48	8% of base mana	134	2 20
5	58	8% of base mana	175	3 20
6	66	6% of base mana	216	5 80
7	71	6% of base mana	362	18
8	76	6% of base mana	386	18
9	80	6% of base mana	442	18

Talents

Talents that can improve the weapon buff:

	Talent Points Needed	Type	Description	Talent Points Available
	20	Enhancement	Elemental Weapons	3

Patch changes

• Template:Patched

Tips

• 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.