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For the wand, see Inv wand 01 [Cold Snap].
Cold Snap
Spell frost wizardmark
  • Cold Snap
  • Level 19 Frost mage ability
  • 5 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Resets the cooldown of your Ice Barrier, Frost Nova, Cone of Cold, Ice Cold, and Ice Block.
Properties
Class Mage
School Physical
Cooldown 5 minutes
Other information
Level learned 19

Cold Snap is a mage ability. It resets the cooldowns of certain Frost spells.

Trivia[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Cold Snap has been removed from the talent tree and is now learned baseline at level 19 (was a row 4 Frost talent). Now also affects Spell fire bluefire [Ice Cold].
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 4 Frost talent (was a level 42 Frost ability). Rank 2 removed.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added at level 54: Cooldown reduced by 30 seconds.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 42 (was 52).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.1.0 (2018-12-11): Cold Snap can once again be used while in Spell frost frost [Ice Block].
  • Legion Hotfix (2017-01-13): Fixed the animation for Cold Snap.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Redesigned a level 52 Frost ability (was a level 30 talent for all mages). Resets the cooldown of your Spell frost frostnova [Frost Nova], Spell frost glacier [Cone of Cold], Spell ice lament [Ice Barrier], and Ice Block.
    Old: Ice Block now has 2 charges and also heals you for 3% of your maximum health every 1 sec.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned as a level 30 talent (was level 60): Ice Block now has 2 charges and also heals you for 3% of your maximum health every 1 sec.
    Old: Immediately resets the cooldown of your Ice Block, Spell nature enchantarmor [Presence of Mind], Inv misc head dragon 01 [Dragon's Breath], Cone of Cold, and Frost Nova spells, and heals you for 22% of your maximum health. Usable during most loss of control effects, and unaffected by global cooldown.
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now also resets the cooldown of Presence of Mind, Dragon's Breath, and Ability mage netherwindpresence [Evanesce].
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now available to all specializations as a level 60 talent (was a tier 4 Frost talent). Cooldown reduced from 8 to 3 minutes.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Moved from tier 5 to tier 4. Now only affects Frost spells that the mage has recently cast.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Cooldown has been reduced to 8 minutes (was 10). The talent also no longer resets the cooldown of Spell fire firearmor [Fire Ward].
  • Bc icon Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): The tooltip has been adjusted to indicate it only resets cooldowns caused by Frost spells, e.g., Cold Snap will not reset the cooldown caused by Dragon's Breath (which has a shared cooldown with Spell frost glacier [Cone of Cold]).
  • Bc icon Patch 2.0.1 (2006-12-05): Moved to tier 5 (was tier 3).
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): This talent will now always clear the cooldown for Spell frost frostward [Frost Ward], even if the cooldown was triggered by casting Fire Ward.

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