Severe Temperatures
Frostfire Empowerment stacks 1 additional times and it causes Frostfire Bolt to explode for an additional 20% of its damage.
Tree position
In the Fire Mage talent tree, Severe Temperatures sits in the Frostfire hero talent tree, row 3 of 5. It is a single-point node.
Choice node
Severe Temperatures shares its node with Thermal Conditioning. A character takes one of the two.
Thermal ConditioningFrostfire Bolt's cast time is reduced by 10%.
Connected above
The tree draws a line into Severe Temperatures from Frostfire Empowerment.
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.
Connected below
Severe Temperatures leads on to Flash Freezeburn.
Flash FreezeburnGlacial Spike damage increased by 15% and it now explodes on impact, dealing 25% of its damage to up to 5 nearby enemies. Additionally, Glacial Spike now grants Frostfire Empowerment.
Same row
Also on this row: Heat Sink, Dualcasting Adept and Molten Chill.

Dualcasting AdeptBlizzard damage increased by 15%.]?a137019[Pyroblast damage increased by 15%. Flamestrike damage increased by 15%.][Ice Lance and Pyroblast have their damage increased by 40%.]
Molten ChillYour Frostfire spells apply Ignite, dealing an additional 30% of their damage over 9 sec.
Talent trees
Severe Temperatures is in the talent tree of 3 specializations. Mage: Arcane (DPS), Fire (DPS), Frost (DPS).
Severe Temperatures Changes by patch
Tracked changes to this talent between game data builds, newest first.
- First tracked in the game data (patch 12.1.0)