Winter's Chill (Mage Frost talent) in WoW Forever: all 5 ranks

Every rank of Winter's Chill

Rank	Effect	Source
1	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 20% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.	client
2	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 40% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.	client
3	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 60% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.	client
4	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 80% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.	client
5	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 100% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.	client

Requirements and position

Tree: Frost, row 6, column 3. Needs 25 points in Frost first. The earliest you can finish all 5 ranks is level 39 if you put every point into this tree.

Classic comparison

	Classic 1.12	WoW Forever
Name	Winter's Chill	Winter's Chill
Position	Frost row 6, col 3	Frost row 6, col 3
Ranks	5	5
Rank 1 text	Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.	Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 20% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.

Spells this talent affects

Cone of Cold · 4 ranks, learned at 26
Frostbolt · 11 ranks, learned at 4
Ice Lance · 6 ranks, learned at 20

Builds that take Winter's Chill

Frost Mage leveling build (10–60) · 5/5
Frost Mage endgame PvE build (20/0/31) · 5/5

Questions players ask

Where is Winter's Chill in the Mage talent tree?

Frost tree, row 6, column 3. You need 25 points spent in Frost before you can learn it.

Is Winter's Chill new in WoW Forever?

Winter's Chill existed in Classic (Frost row 6, 5 ranks). In Forever it was changed: Classic read "Gives your Frost damage spells a 20% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.".

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