Meltdown
You melt slightly out of your Ice Block and Ice Cold, allowing you to move slowly during Ice Block and increasing your movement speed over time. Ice Block and Ice Cold trigger a Blazing Barrier when they end.
Tree position
In the Fire Mage talent tree, Meltdown sits in the Frostfire hero talent tree, row 2 of 5. It is a single-point node.
Choice node
Meltdown shares its node with Imbued Warding. A character takes one of the two.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Meltdown from Frostfire Bolt.
Frostfire BoltLaunches a bolt of frostfire at the enemy, causing (259.4% of Spell Power) Frostfire damage, slowing movement speed by 50%, and causing an additional (21.6% of Spell Power) Frostfire damage over 8 sec. Applies 1 stacks of Freezing.
Connected below
Meltdown leads on to Heat Sink.
Same row
Also on this row: Frostfire Empowerment, Elemental Affinity or Flame and Frost and Duality.
Frostfire EmpowermentCasting Frostfire spells has a 10% chance to activate Frostfire Empowerment, causing your next Frostfire Bolt to be instant cast, deal 60% increased damage, and explode for 60% of its damage to nearby enemies. Damage reduced beyond 5 targets.

Flame and FrostCauterize resets the cooldown of your Frost spells with a base cooldown shorter than 4 minutes when it activates.]
DualityCasting Pyroblast has a chance to also cast a Glacial Spike, dealing (366.2% of Spell Power) Frost damage.
Talent trees
Meltdown is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Mage: Arcane (DPS), Fire (DPS), Frost (DPS).
Meltdown Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)