Ice Nova

In the Arcane Mage talent tree, Ice Nova sits in the Mage class talents, row 9 of 10. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 20 points are spent in Class Talents.

Choice node

Ice Nova shares its node with Freezing Cold. A character takes one of the two.

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  Freezing Cold

  Enemies hit by Cone of Cold are frozen in place for 5 sec instead of snared. When your roots expire or are dispelled, your target is snared by 80%, decaying over 3 sec.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Ice Nova from Charm of Aegwynn.

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  Charm of Aegwynn

  The critical strike damage of your spells is increased by 5%.

Connected below

Ice Nova leads on to Ice Cold.

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  Ice Cold

Same row

Also on this row: Permafrost Bauble, Time Manipulation, Ring of Frost or Mass Polymorph, Energized Barriers, Mass Invisibility and Barrier Diffusion.

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  Permafrost Bauble

  Ice Cold's cooldown is reduced by 30 sec.

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  Time Manipulation

  The cooldowns of your loss of control spells are reduced by 5 sec.

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  Ring of Frost

  Summons a Ring of Frost for 10 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring are incapacitated for 10 sec. Limit 10 targets. When the incapacitate expires, enemies are slowed by 65% for 4 sec.

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  Mass Polymorph

  Transforms all enemies into sheep, wandering around incapacitated for 15 sec. While affected, the victims cannot take actions but will regenerate health very quickly. Damage will cancel the effect. Only works on Beasts, Humanoids and Critters.

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  Energized Barriers

  Casting your barrier removes all snare effects.

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  Mass Invisibility

  You and your allies instantly become invisible for 12 sec. Taking any action will cancel the effect. [Does not affect allies in combat.]

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  Barrier Diffusion

  When your Barrier is removed, reduce its cooldown by 5 sec.