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Fingers of Frost

Fingers of Frost
Requires Mage (Frost)
Requires level 24

Your successful Frostbolts, Frostfire Bolts and Frozen Orb hits have a 15% chance, and your Blizzard ticks have a 5% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect.

The Fingers of Frost effect causes your next Ice Lance or Deep Freeze to act as if your target were frozen, and increases Ice Lance damage by 100%.

Limit 2 charges.

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School

Physical

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Dispel type

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GCD category

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Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Dummy
Value: 15
Server-side script

Effect #2

Dummy
Value: 5
Server-side script

Effect #3

Dummy
Value: 10
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Effect #4

Dummy
Value: 25
Server-side script

Flags

Passive spell

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Comment by MrDopple

This ability procs a lot when Frozen Orb is active, as the proc is guaranteed when an enemy is first damaged by the Orb. In addition, the spell hits many times, is an AoE, and has a 12% chance of causing another proc from the many hits it can cause. Throwing Frozen Orb out against even one opponent will guarantee at least one proc, and will likely cause more. Against a large group, the limit of 2 charges of this spell will prevent you from using all of the procs the Orb will give, as the global cooldown is too lengthy for you to shoot off all of the Lances in time.

When you have 2 charges of this buff, use Ice Lance. When you have only 1, use Deep Freeze, as you can shoot off up to 4 Ice Lances against a stunned target. The exception is, of course, against a target immune to stun. Do not use Deep Freeze while at 2 charges, as the second charge will be wasted. This buff does not stack damage against a frozen target, it simply pretends the target is frozen, meaning it will make no difference against an already frozen target.

Sorry if this is a little bit incoherent, just trying to share some knowledge (probably common knowledge, but still) about how to use this buff to the greatest effect. The short version is that Frozen Orb will cause this buff to proc many, many times, and that you should use Ice Lance while at 2 charges, and Deep Freeze while at one, unless the target cannot be stunned.

Comment by sylancer

Fingers of Frost can be considered as the resources for Frost Mage, one can have 2 charges of Fingers of Frost max.
it generate by:

Freeze (+1; +2 if it hits more than 1 targets)
Frozen Orb (+1 when it first reaches a target; 15% chance per hit to generate 1 Fingers of Frost)
Frostbolt (15% chance to generate 1 Fingers of Frost)
Frostfire Bolt (15% chance to generate 1 Fingers of Frost; Mage Bomb have a chance to make it instant, free, and act as target were frozen (benefit from Shatter and Mastery: Frostburn))
Blizzard (5% chance per tick to generate 1 Fingers of Frost)

and when Mage have charges of Fingers of Frost, these spells can be cast to consume 1 charge of Fingers of Frost and act as target were frozen:

Ice Lance (4x normal damage; damage increase by 25% (benefit from Shatter and Mastery: Frostburn))
Deep Freeze (castable without really frozen the target)

Comment by Taraezor

Just to clarify the tooltip for anyone perhaps with wishful thinking and who also noticed the grammatical ambiguity: Once you do your "boosted" Ice Lance you will receive no further benefit for a single charge of Fingers of Frost. In other words the 25% bonus Ice Lance damage does not apply to repeated applications of Ice Lance throughout the 15 seconds for that single charge of FoF.

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