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Deep Freeze
Inv misc questionmark
  • Deep Freeze (1 rank)
  • Mage ability
  • 30 yd range
  • 9% of base mana
  • 30 secs cooldown
  • Instant
  • Stuns the target for 5 sec. Only usable on Frozen targets.
Properties
Class Mage
School Frost
Cooldown 30 secs
Talents
Talent tree Frost
Talent required 50 points in Frost talents
Related debuff
Inv misc questionmark
  • Magic
  • Deep Freeze
  • Stunned and Frozen.
  • Duration: 5 Sec.

[[Category:mage abilities]][[Category:mage abilities]]

Deep Freeze is the 51-point talent in the Frost tree for Mages. It was introduced in Patch 3.0.2.

Deep Freeze causes a target to be considered Frozen for the duration of its stun, turning it into yet another tool for Frost mages to perform Shatter Combos with. It is, however, purely a PvP talent, being useless in a PvE setting for doing no damage and providing no lasting crowd control, which leads raiding Frost Mages to often leave it behind and spend the talent point elsewhere.

Improvements

Talents

Glyphs

Glyph of Deep Freeze
Ability mage deepfreeze
Usable by
Class Mage
Specialization Frost
Properties
Level learned 25
Glyph type Major Glyph
Source item
Inv glyph majormage20
  • Glyph of Deep Freeze
  • Major Glyph
  • Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.

    Your Deep Freeze spell is no longer on the global cooldown, but its duration is reduced by 1 sec.
  • Classes: Mage
  • Requires Level 25
  • Sell Price: 1s

Source

This item is created with Inscription (295); discovered through Inv misc book 07 [Book of Glyph Mastery].

Materials required:
Inv inscription inkblack03 3x [Blackfallow Ink] Inv inscription papyrus 1x [Light Parchment]

Patch changes

  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Removed.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Requirements changed.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Now removes Deep Freeze from global cooldown but also reduces its duration by 1 second.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Updated, replaced Inv glyph majormage [Glyph of Ice Barrier]. Glyphs prior to the patch were converted to Glyph of Water Elemental.
    Previous version: Your Deep Freeze deals 20% additional damage.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Now increases damage done by Inv misc questionmark [Deep Freeze] by 20% (no longer increases Frostbolt damage against Deep Frozen targets).
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Became a prime glyph. Now increases the damage of Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt] by 20% while Deep Freeze is active on the target (previously increased the range of Deep Freeze by 10 yards).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.1.0 (2009-04-14): Added,.

External links

Item Spell

Tips and Tactics

This spell is best used at the very end of a Spell frost frostnova [Frost Nova] to maximize the opponent's Spell frost frostshock [Shatter]-able and stationary time and minimize the risk of them trinketing the effect right away. It can be somewhat reliably used as an interrupt when coupled with Ability mage wintersgrasp [Fingers of Frost].

Note, however that this spell is not off the GCD. It is subject to diminishing returns in the controlled stun category (such as Ability gouge [Gouge], Ability shockwave [Improved Hamstring]) and Spell frost frostnova [Frost Nova], Spell frost frostarmor [Frostbite] and Ability mage coldasice [Shattered Barrier] will not diminish the results of Deep Freeze.

Using this spell in PvE against trash mobs is almost always subpar compared to dealing direct damage, as Deep Freeze does no damage of its own to compensate for the lost 1.5 seconds of Global Cooldown, aside from being too short to count as a meaningful form of crowd control.

Patch history

  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): Now deals damage to permanently stun immune targets, with 1469 to 1741 base damage and a spell power coefficient of approximately 7.5/3.5 or 214.3%.
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