Flash Freeze
Casting Glacial Spike has a 100% chance to grant you Fingers of Frost.
Tree position
In the Frost Mage talent tree, Flash Freeze sits in the Frost specialization talents, row 6 of 11. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Frost Talents.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Flash Freeze from Piercing Cold and Ray of Frost.
Piercing ColdFrostfire Bolt and Flurry critical strike damage increased by 20%.
Ray of FrostApplies of Freezing over its duration.
Connected below
Flash Freeze leads on to Fractured Frost and Improved Shatter.
Fractured FrostIce Lance strikes 1 additional targets at 50% effectiveness, preferring enemies with more stacks of Freezing.
Improved ShatterShatter damage has a 50% increased chance to critically strike.
Same row
Also on this row: Frozen Touch, Splitting Ice, Splintering Ray or Frigid Focus, Winter's Blessing, Freezing Rain and Cone of Frost.
Frozen TouchFrostbolt grants you Fingers of Frost 25% more often and Brain Freeze 20% more often.
Splitting IceYour Flurry and Frostfire Bolt spells strike 1 additional target at 50% effectiveness.
Splintering RayRay of Frost deals 30% of its damage to 5 nearby enemies.
Frigid FocusRay of Frost damage increased by 30%.
Winter's BlessingYour Haste is increased by 3%. You gain 5% more Haste from all sources of Haste.
Freezing RainFrozen Orb makes Blizzard instant cast. Blizzard damage increased by 20%.
Cone of FrostIce Nova now applies 3 stacks of Freezing to up to 5 enemies.
Talent trees
Flash Freeze is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Mage: Arcane (DPS), Fire (DPS), Frost (DPS).
Flash Freeze Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)