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Frostfire Bolt

Frostfire Bolt
Ability mage frostfirebolt.png
  • Frostfire Bolt
  • 40 yd  range
  • N/A cooldown
  • 14% of base mana
  • 3 sec cast
  • Launches a bolt of frostfire at the enemy, causing X to Y Frostfire damage, slowing movement speed by 40% and causing an additional Z Frostfire damage over 9 sec. This spell will be checked against the lower of the target's Frost and Fire resists.
Usable by
ClassMage
Properties
TypeOffensive
SchoolFrost & Fire
CooldownN/A
Other information
Ranks2
Related debuff
Ability mage frostfirebolt.png
  • Magic
  • Frostfire Bolt
  • Movement slowed by 40%. X Fire damage every 3 sec.
  • Duration: 9 seconds

Frostfire Bolt is a Mage ability that came with Wrath of the Lich King. Its primary purpose is to make an Elementalist specialization (one with a balance of points between the Frost and Fire Mage trees) viable for PvE content (see Mage builds). To serve that purpose, it gains benefits from talents that affect both Frost and Fire damage.

Contents

Rank table Edit

Rank Damage done Damage over time Level Cost
1 629 - 731 60 over 9 sec. 75 12g 75s
2 722 - 838 90 over 9 sec. 80 15g

Impact Edit

Elementalist talent builds had never quite achieved a position of PvE competitiveness in terms of damage dealing when compared to either the Frost or Fire trees. Previously, Elementalist Mages would use Fireball in raid situations due to its naturally higher damage, seeing half of all their talent investment (that in Frost) go down the drain and being unable to compete with fully specced Fire Mages. That changed with the introduction of Frostfire Bolt in Patch 3.0.2.

The Bolt, in essence, gains the benefits of both Frost and Fire damage talents (with the exception of restricted ones like Improved Fireball or Empowered Frostbolt). Now, Elementalist Mages can benefit from Ice Shards and Ignite simultaneously, for instance, which is a massive increase to their DPS. Frostfire Bolt's stated goal from Blizzard was to make Elementalist builds viable in raids.

Current state Edit

In the current PvE environments, Elementalist builds are largely non-existant, since they are vastly outperformed by Arcane and Fire mages. In Patch 3.3.3, the Brain Freeze talent was changed to affect Frostfire Bolt in addition to Fireball. Because Frostfire Bolt has far more synergy with Frost talents than Fireball, it has replaced Fireball in the deep Frost rotation.

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