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Frostfire Bolt
| Frostfire Bolt | |
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| Usable by | |
| Class | Mage |
| Properties | |
| Type | Offensive |
| School | Frost & Fire |
| Cooldown | N/A |
| Other information | |
| Ranks | 2 |
| Related debuff | |
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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.
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| Rank | Damage done | Damage over time | Level | Cost |
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| 1 | 629 - 731 | 60 over 9 sec. | 75 | 12 75
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| 2 | 722 - 838 | 90 over 9 sec. | 80 | 15
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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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