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| Permafrost |
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| Usable by |
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| Class | Mage |
| Properties |
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| Location | Frost, Tier 2 |
| Affects | Chill effects |
| Ranks | 3 |
| Requirements |
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| Points required | 5 |
Permafrost is a mage talent that increases the effectiveness of the mage's chill effects, increasing the duration by 1 sec. per rank, up to 3 sec. max, reduces movement speed by an additional amount, up to 10% at max rank 3, and reduces the target's healing received up to 20% at max rank 3. The additional reduction to movement speed is an additive amount, meaning that a snare that normally slows by 50% will now slow by 60%. This talent is popular with frost mages that do a lot of kiting, either against single mobs or when doing frost AoE grinding on multiple mobs at once.
Uses
Some spells gain a particular advantage from the increased chill duration. Blizzard, with points in Improved Blizzard normally has a chill of 1.5 seconds, which is increased to 4.5 seconds with Permafrost, three times the duration. Cone of Cold normally has a chill duration of 8 seconds, which is increased to 11 seconds with Permafrost, making the duration longer than the spell's cooldown of 10 seconds.
Rank table
| Rank | Chill duration increase | Additional snare | Healing reduction
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| 1 | 1 sec. | 4% | 7%
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| 2 | 2 sec. | 7% | 13%
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| 3 | 3 sec. | 10% | 20%
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Notes
- This talent can be combined with the deep Frost talent Chilled to the Bone for a total 20% extra snaring power when both are at max rank.
- The debuff triggered by Frostfire Bolt has both the snare and a DoT effect combined, so taking at least two ranks of this talent makes the DoT effect tick one more time.
Patch changes
- Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): In addition to its existing effects, this talent now also causes the mage's Chill effects to reduce healing received by the victim by 7/13/20%.
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