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Ring of Frost

Ring of Frost

2% of base mana	30 yd range

2 sec cast	45 sec cooldown

Requires Mage
Requires level 45

Summons a Ring of Frost for 10 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring will become incapacitated for 10 sec. Limit 10 targets.

Spell Details

Duration

10 seconds

School

Frost

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

Normal

Cost

2% of base mana

Range

30 yards (Medium)

Cast time

2 seconds

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

1.5 seconds

Effect #1

Summon (Ring of Frost)
Value: 1

Effect #2

Trigger Spell

	Ring of Frost

Effect #3

Dummy
Radius: 6.5 yards
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Comments

Comment by Iesdi

In my honest opinion, the spell now is even more overpowered than it was before, some thought it's impossible, but this is how the facts stand:

How Ring of Frost changed:

Cataclysm Live:
-Instant cast on selected ground location
-Activates after 3 seconds
-Lasts for 12 seconds after activation
-Freezes anything that contacts the border for 10 seconds
-3 minutes cooldown

Mists of Pandaria (up to date):
-2 seconds cast (based on haste) on selected ground location. Can not be casted while moving.
-Instant activation after cast is complete
-Lasts for 10 seconds
-Freezes anything that contacts the border for 10 seconds
-30 seconds cooldown

Changes:
-1 second less activation time, but you must cast it manually
-2 seconds shorter duration of the ring itself
-2.5 minutes LESS cooldown, from 3 minutes to 30 seconds.

Comment by ellil

With 5.0.4 you are now able to cast the spell and cancel it mid cast. The reason I go out of my way to say this is that you can put down a lot of "fake" rings of frost in a row. The animation will keep showing up no matter how many times you fake the cast. Possible use for mages in arena?

Comment by rappydoo21

If, for example, you pull a target into the ring, freezing it to the outer part of the ring farthest from you, break it with a spell, and it continues to advance towards you, would it then again be frozen when it touches the outer ring closest to you? (sorry if bad explanation)

Can someone clarify?

Comment by Hoochie

The debuff which is applied by this is also called Ring of Frost.

Comment by Sketti11

I still get an "Instant" text on mine. I am guessing it is a bug they haven't ironed out.

Comment by Splondir

When using in conjuction with Gorefiend's Grasp, i.e., for rated battlegrounds, it is best to drop the ring first and have the death knight grip ON the ring and NOT into the center. Easiest way is for her to run to the position and grip onto herself.

Doing it this way ensures the enemy will be frozen. Remember, if they do not touch the "ring" graphic and just remain in the middle, they are safe.

Comment by Alexianoryuu

For those who wonder about why this talent now has a limit on targets frozen when it previously did not, you may refer to this dev watercooler.

Looking for solutions to this problem, clever players noticed that the mage spell Ring of Frost froze enemies for 10 seconds, had a 30-second cooldown, and had no target cap. Cue three mages cycling Rings of Frost to keep every Rage frozen for the entire fight. They spawn in waves of four in 25-player mode, resulting in anywhere from 52 to 64 Rages frozen in one giant clump by the end of the fight, causing client and server performance issues in the process. On the upside (for the designers observing these attempts), when this mage rotation faltered, the resulting wipes were fairly comical, bearing more than a little resemblance to an endless stream of passengers emerging from a clown car.

This quote was probably the best part out of the whole thing, but they had this point to say - though it was a viable tactic, it was an "easy way out". And, like many game developers, the "easy way out" is not always what they intended on - so they patched it.

Side note: I found a video on Youtube that did have the mages slip up a couple times on their Rings. To say the least, before they corrected themselves, it did indeed remind me of the exact thing the dev said. Quite humorous, though the guild did indeed finish the fight before the countless Rages tromped all over them. For those who wish to see it, here is a link at roughly the time the amusement began.

Comment by LyssaWoW

Am I missing something with this spell? I've never really played a mage (a lot) before, got one to 85 during Cataclysm, found it insanely boring (in PvE) and deleted. I'm just in the process of leveling one again, currently at 46, and trying out this talent in dungeons. More than half of the time, the ring appears on the floor, but nothing entering/leaving it gets frozen, it then disappears well before the 10 seconds is up, and the cooldown is reset. Is this WAI?

Comment by xXzCodProxXz

This is just ridiculous, mages having stuns ?
Yea fire mages had it with proc but frost

Gcrawler comes in...gives frost mages stuns
Just give all classes a fear, a stun, a bubble, a pet and a ranged silence
name them "fear 1", "fear 2" in that order because everything needs to be homogenized

add the fact what mages cast just about anything on the move...this is just insane how much CC mages have now

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