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Winter's Chill

Spell

Winter's Chill

Physical

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Mage

Instant castSelf Only

Gives your Frost damage spells a chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec.

Winter's Chill

Tooltip

Gives your Frost damage spells a chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance a Frost spell will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.

How it works

Its aura has a 40% chance to proc when its trigger condition is met.

  1. Effect 1 is Apply Aura (effect type 6). It applies aura type 42. Its base value is 5. It triggers Winter's Chill.

What it does

Winter's Chill is a spell with an instant cast and no range (it targets the caster). When cast it applies an aura. It also casts Winter's Chill (record #12579).

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolPhysical
RangeSelf Only
Cast timeInstant
Proc chance40%
Effect #1Apply Aura (6)
Aura type id 42
Value: 5
Trigger spell: Winter's Chill

Raw client values from the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.70576. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

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Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 4 separate Spell records named "Winter's Chill". This page is record #28592. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#228358effect types: noneA different effect setup
#361156used by: Cast by Winter's Chill; effect types: noneA helper record another spell casts
#371776effect types: noneA different effect setup
#385305effect types: noneA different effect setup

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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