Instant · 10 min cooldown
Cold Snap ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells.
Slot corrected from a secondary source; not yet verified in footage.
What Cold Snap 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 When activated, this spell finishes the cooldown on all of your Frost spells.
Where Cold Snap sits in the Frost tree
Cold Snap is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 20 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Ice Barrier.
- Unlocks: Ice Barrier
- Same row: Improved Cone of Cold, Fingers of Frost
How often people take Cold Snap
33 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 29% — put at least one point in Cold Snap. 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.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage