Permafrost ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 11% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 3%.
- Rank 2 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 22% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 7%.
- Rank 3 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 33% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 10%.
What Permafrost does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 1 sec and reduces the target's speed by an additional 4%.
- Rank 2 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 2 secs and reduces the target's speed by an additional 7%.
- Rank 3 Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 3 secs and reduces the target's speed by an additional 10%.
Where Permafrost sits in the Frost tree
Permafrost is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 5 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Ice Shards, Frostbite, Improved Frost Nova
How often people take Permafrost
28 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (26%) put at least one point in Permafrost. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Permafrost
3 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Permafrost.
- Mage Arcane 18/0/14 · 3/3 , 21 up
- Mage Frost 13/0/29 · 3/3 , 12 up
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 3/3 , 5 up
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)