Permafrost Lances
Frozen Orb increases Shatter's damage by 10% for its duration.
Tree position
In the Frost Mage talent tree, Permafrost Lances sits in the Frost specialization talents, row 5 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 Permafrost Lances from Frozen Orb.
Frozen OrbLaunches an orb of swirling ice in front of you, dealing up to Frost damage to all enemies it passes through over 15 sec. After a short delay, Frozen Orb will pursue its target. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets. Enemies damaged by the Frozen Orb are slowed by 50% for 8 sec.
Connected below
Permafrost Lances leads on to Freezing Rain and Cone of Frost.
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.
Same row
Also on this row: Brain Freeze, Piercing Cold, Ray of Frost and Everlasting Frost.
Brain FreezeFrostfire Bolt has a 25% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Flurry and cause your next Flurry to deal 50% increased damage.
Piercing ColdFrostfire Bolt and Flurry critical strike damage increased by 20%.
Ray of FrostApplies of Freezing over its duration.
Everlasting FrostCasting Frozen Orb grants 1 stacks of Fingers of Frost. Damaging one or more enemies with Frozen Orb has a 3% chance to grant Fingers of Frost.
Talent trees
Permafrost Lances is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Mage: Arcane (DPS), Fire (DPS), Frost (DPS).
Permafrost Lances Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)