Icy Touch

Icy Touch
Icy Touch Death knight ability 20 yd range 1 Frost Rune 6 sec cooldown Instant Chills the target for X Frost damage and infects them with Frost Fever, a disease that deals periodic damage and reduces melee and ranged attack speed by 20% for 21 sec.
Properties
Class	Death knight
School	Frost
Cooldown	6 seconds
Improvements	[Icy Reach],  Chill of the Grave, [Merciless Combat], [Rime], [Ebon Plaguebringer]
Related debuff
Disease Frost Fever Deals Frost damage over 21 sec. Reduces melee and ranged attack speed. Duration: 21 seconds

[[Category:death knight abilities]][[Category:death knight abilities]]

Icy Touch is a Death knight ability that deals moderate Frost damage and applies [Frost Fever], which slows the target's melee and ranged attack speed by 20%.

Because of the low damage done by Icy Touch, its main use when dealing damage is to afflict the target with Frost Fever.

Rank table

Level	Frost Damage
55	322

Improvements

Talents

• [Merciless Combat] increases damage by 6/12% on enemies with less than 35% health.
• [Rime] allows for a free Icy Touch 15/30/45% of the time following an obliterate.
• [Icy Reach] increases range by 5/10 yards.
•  Chill of the Grave generates 2.5/5 additional runic power on hit (normally 10 runic power)
• [Ebon Plaguebringer] causes Icy Touch to infect the target with Ebon Plague.

Glyphs

Glyph of Icy Touch
Glyph of Icy Touch Level 25 death knight ability Instant Your Icy Touch dispels one helpful Magic effect from the target.
Usable by
Class	Death knight
Properties
Level learned	25
Glyph type	Major Glyph
Source item
20 Glyph of Icy Touch Major Glyph Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph. Your Icy Touch dispels one helpful Magic effect from the target. Classes: Death Knight Requires Level 25 Sell Price: 1

Glyph of Icy Touch is created with Inscription (280); discovered through  [Research: Celestial Ink].

Materials required:

3x [Celestial Ink]

1x [Light Parchment]

Patch changes

• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  
• Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Requirements changed.
  
• Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Updated. Changed back to a major glyph.

  Previous version: Your Frost Fever disease deals 20% additional damage.
  

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Became a prime glyph. Now requires 3x Shimmering Ink (up from 1).
  
• Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Instead of granting additional runic power, this glyph now causes [Frost Fever] to deal 20% additional damage.
  
• Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): 10% damage reduction removed.
  

External links

Item	Spell
Wowhead WoWDB	Wowhead WoWDB

In World of Warcraft: Trading Card Game.

Patch changes

• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): This ability no longer causes excess threat while in Frost (or Blood) Presence.
  
• Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): This ability now causes a very high amount of threat while the death knight is in Frost Presence.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB