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Commento di althras

Level 1 Blizzard is an excellent spell to use even when you're level 60 to flush out rogues in your surroundings in PvP. If you're good with your mouse, your character can be facing one direction while you cast this spell all over the place around you. You can also maintain casting of this spell over yourself when defending nodes in BGs. Combined with the Permafrost and Improved Blizzard talents, this spell becomes and instant slowing tool.

However, Blizzard at any rank doesn't work for stopping flag turners in AB and AV, so don't bother.

Commento di Premier

AoE Grinding and you :)

As many of you know, mages are well known for their ability to eliminate multiple enemies at once. At the Heart of most succesful AoE'ers is the Blizzard spell. With the right talen points spent in the Frost tree, the Blizzard spell (and frost spell at that) to practically stop an enemies movement completely.

So Remember, just Cone of Cold, Frost Nova, Blink and Blizzard (repeat if necessary) and stay chilly side up :)

Commento di 7927

Blizzard is largely a useless spell unless used is specific PvE situations. When used in PvP, it will usually make you the immediate target of anyone that knows you're the one casting it.

In PvE, Blizzard is used in some instances to clear out large groups of mobs. For example, in Molten Core Blizzard is used by the Mages in the raid to kill the large groups of Flame Imps before the Lucifron and Magmadar bosses.

Blizzard is also the best skill to use when AoE (Area of Effect) grinding your mage. A Mage will train a number of mobs behind him, usually 5-10, though this number is not set in stone, frost nova, blink away, and cast Blizzard so that the edge of the AoE circle barely touches the mob furthest from the Mage.

This form of AoE grinding is only possible when you put talent points into certain talents in the Frost tree, which give Blizzard additional effects, including the Chill effect, which will slow any enemies that Blizzard damages.

Commento di 9590

Perhaps one of the best AoE spells WoW has to offer. This and many other AoE spells are useful in many situations. For example, when in Arathi Basin, have a mage stand back and if too many of the opposing faction try to cap a flag, have the mage use Blizzard to keep them from capturing it. This is a very useful technique and can be used to bide time for reinforcements. It is also a powerful spell for when you need to take down large groups of mobs quickly.

Commento di Thottbot

this spell is awesome... i love it

Commento di Thottbot

not really... if it could not be stoped by damage it would own

Commento di Thottbot

How well can you farm with Blizzard Rank 1?

Commento di Thottbot

Is there a cold/slow effect? or do you need a talent for that

Commento di Thottbot

with frost talents if u go frost which i think is the best you can have it so that when blizard strikes (lets use blizzard rank one for example) doing 200 over 8sec to an area channeled ( 25 each sec)

well with these talents - enemies within the area get chilled reducing movement speed by 75% with for 4.5 sec renewed each sec they are in there and each hit has a 15% chance to freeze them in place for 5 sec and being frozen increases the chance of a crit in frost by 50% so u get crits which are applified by 100% dmg so they are being dealt 300% dmg - 75% nearly each hit. Also each hit increases the chance of a frost crit by 2%.

Of course this is with select frost talents:
Ice shards
Frostbite
permafrost
improved blizzard
shatter and winters chill

most of which will be the reg choice of frost spec choosers

Commento di Thottbot

i meant alot of the hits will be for 75 dmg (not 75% as i put) instead of 25

Commento di Thottbot

Im thinking of switching to blizz to aoe grind from 50 - 60
i got some questions involving how it dmgs

1) Does Clear casting trigger with each hit, or the initial

2) Is Frost Bite worth it? or does it seperate them to much?

3) Can it Crit?
3.1) can it only crit if frozen target with shatter?
3.2) Does Winters Chill stack with each hit... or each initial strike?

4) Does Cold Stack with perma frost aka (10% + 65%) or 10%(65%)
4.5) Can perma frost trigger just from blizzard.

5) Does +magical or cold affects the total dmg or each hit?

6) Is + Int Gear better or + magical spell dmg/cold?
Is it more effective too... (Current way I Aoe. Works just fine just wondering which would be faster)
A) Ice Nova
B) Flame strike (with points in shatter)
c) Cone of cold right after
d) arcane explosion + cone of cold/nova?

Thanks For Answers

Commento di Thottbot

Thanks for that Crashbound. While Blizzard hits for a good steady amount of damage it's only really good for grinding if you have the blizzard chill effect. It can work well in instances though if you have the group round up the mobs. But hey I'm new to mages (only level 26) so I could be wrong.

Commento di Thottbot

What if you used it as a first-strike attack? While my Mage isn't in the Ice talents yet (going Arcane/Fire until level 40 or 45 or so), I thought of something. If you had maxed-out Permafrost and Improved Blizzard, would it be possible to just attack them from the farthest-away point on Blizzard, then let him and his friends come as they get slowed, walking through the whole thing, taking a bit of damage? Like I said, I don't know if it'll work or not because I haven't tried it, but it would be interesting.

Commento di Thottbot

Frost spec is a good spec... it does infact make it harder to lvl... When u are fire you ae doing tons more DPS to a single target which make it easyer to do quests etc... Frost spec on the other hand is great for AoE grinding in terms of instences and in grouos when taking camps. The warrior will be holding aggro while you cast your AoE in frost spec so you are greatly reducing their speed and doing a high amount of damage... personaly i prefer fire spec cuz i like to ride solo but its really about how you like to lvl

lightofheven, 60 human priest, ravencrest

Commento di Thottbot

Can this spell crit? :P

Commento di Thottbot

can i on 20 lvl using frost nova and tehn Blizzard kill alot of mobs in 1 time?

Commento di Thottbot

When I am AoE Grinding I use Arcane Explosion over and over. If I get about 10 mobs on me at once it is incredibly good for training. It only gets me about half mana and like 2k exp at lvl 27.

If I'm doing an instance I will use blizzard when the tank has 5+ mobs on him. I wasdoing Gnomeragen yesterday and got out about 2.5k dmage with this spell.

Also good AoE spell for people that shoot for most damage in BG. At lvl 28 I'll be getitng about 3-3.5k damage with one of these.

Commento di Thottbot

It's really funny to use this in lowbie/newbie regions. They offer run for cover, because they think they are being damaged. It is also for impressive visually, and will often gather a group of players to use their AoE spells, making a huge laggy spot of funny stuff. It's pretty cool! Very awesome!

Commento di Thottbot

Where are some god AoE Zones to practice?

Commento di Thottbot

Mana sheild/ice barrier
Round up mobs, Arcane xplosion during rounding
Frost Nova and run
Blizzard
Run in and finish with arc. xplosion

My preffered AoE grinding setup

Commento di Allakhazam

Group with two or 3 mages and use this with nova and you can rack up exp quick on multiple mobs.

Good for 2 mages, but 3 rocks.

Start with one mage getting aggro on 3 or 4 mobs, then he/she uses Nova all mobs freeze, then all mages use blizzard..once nova breaks mage #2 uses nova, all mages cast blizzard,, nova breaks again mage #3 uses nove, all cast blizzard again...that's a lot of DPS.

Edited, Tue May 9 08:38:06 2006

Commento di Allakhazam

itd be easier to just have all 3 cast blizzard at same time duh

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Tormenta

Tormenta	Livello 60

320 mana	Portata di 30 m

Canalizzato (8 s di lancio)

Ice shards pelt the target area doing [([4.2% of Spell Power]) * 8 * 1] Frost damage over 8 s.

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Dettagli dell'incantesimo

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8 secondi

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Gelo

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n/d

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n/d

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Normale

Costo

320 mana

Portata

30 metri (Medium)

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Canalizzato

Recupero

n/d

GCD

1.5 secondi

Possibilità di Attivare Aura

100%

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Valore: 1 (Mod SP:0.03)
Raggio:8 metri
[PVP Multiplier: ]1
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Valore: 1
Raggio:8 metri
[PVP Multiplier: ]1

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Apply Aura: Periodic Dummy
Valore: 1 tutti i 1 secondo
[PVP Multiplier: ]1

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[No Aura Icon]
[Do Not Reset Combat Timers]
[No initial Threat]
[Uses Ranged Slot (Cosmetic Only)]
[Allow Class Ability Procs]

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