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Icy Veins
Spell frost coldhearted
  • Icy Veins
  • Row 7 Frost mage talent
  • 2 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Accelerates your spellcasting for 25 sec, granting 20% haste and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts.

    Activating Icy Veins summons a water elemental to your side for its duration. The water elemental's abilities grant you Frigid Empowerment increasing the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.
Properties
Class Mage
School Frost
Cooldown 2 minutes
Talents
Talent required Ability deathknight frozencenter [Wintertide] or Inv bearmountblizzard [Snowstorm]
Improvements Ability hunter pointofnoescape [Cryopathy]
Related buff
Spell frost coldhearted
  • Icy Veins
  • Haste increased by 20% and immune to pushback.
  • Duration: 25 seconds

Icy Veins is a Frost mage talent.

Improvements[]

Glyphs[]

Several glyphs are available to change the summoned elemental's appearance:

Notes and trivia[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
    • Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes) and Haste reduced to 20% (was 30%).
    • Activating Icy Veins now also summons a water elemental to your for its duration.
    • Icy Veins Water Elemental abilities:
      • Water Jet cooldown increased to 20 seconds (was 45 seconds).
      • Water Jet damage increased by 75%.
      • Waterbolt damage increased by 50%.
      • Freeze now applies maximum stacks for Frigid Empowerment.
      • Frigid Empowerment increases the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 7 Frost talent (was a level 29 Frost ability). Rank 2 removed.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Icy Veins can no longer be dispelled.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added at level 56: Duration increased by 3 seconds.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer has a global cooldown. Now learned at level 29 (was 40).
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now increases haste by 30% (was 20%). Now learned at level 40 (was 36).
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Mana cost removed. Now a level 36 Frost ability (was a tier 3 Frost talent).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The spell pushback reduction from this talent now works on Ability mage frostfirebolt [Frostfire Bolt].
  • Bc icon Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): No longer increases the chance your chilling effects will Freeze the target, but now increases the chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any spell by 100% while active.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Added.

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