Ring of Frost is a mage class talent. It conjures a ring on the ground that incapacitates enemies who step on it, then snares them afterward. Targets are considered Frozen while incapacitated by Ring of Frost.
Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Duration decreased to 6 seconds in PvP combat (was 8 seconds).
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 6 class talent (was a level 40 talent).
Hotfix (2021-02-18):Fixed an issue where the visual effect of an Orc mage's Ring of Frost was appearing delayed to enemy players.
Hotfix (2021-02-08):Ring of Frost will now always show its cast location visual effect.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Incapacitate duration in PvE increased by 50% and has an additional effect – When the incapacitate expires, enemies are slowed by 65% for 4 seconds. Now available at level 40 (was 75).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now available at level 75 (was 45).
Patch 5.2.0 (2013-03-05): Ring of Frost cast instantly through [Presence of Mind] now has a 2-second arming period before the Freeze effect is activated against targets in the area of effect. The 2-second arming period can be reduced by Haste.
Hotfix (2012-12-11):Several abilities that should break on damage will now correctly have a chance to break when damage is absorbed, including Ring of Frost.
Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): Now has a 45 second cooldown, up from 30 seconds, and can no longer affect more than 10 targets.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now a level 45 talent (was a level 83 ability). The ring now appears instantly (previously took 3 seconds), but the cast time is now 2 sec (was Instant). Duration reduced to 10 sec (was 12) and cooldown reduced to 30 sec (was 3 min).
Patch 4.2.0 (2011-06-28):[Deep Freeze] and Ring of Frost will cause diminishing returns on each other, in addition to the spells they normally share diminishing returns with.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Now displays different visuals for hostile and friendly players.
Patch 4.0.6a (2011-02-11): Area-of-effect abilities such as Ring of Frost now function correctly when cast on any trapdoors (ala Cho'gall) or transports even while the caster is not standing on one of those same objects.
Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Radius shrunk to 8 yards, and inner "safe" radius is now 4.7 yards (exactly matching graphic). Dispelling the effect of Ring of Frost will now make the target immune to being refrozen for 3 seconds. If a second Ring of Frost is cast by the same mage while the first is still active (via [Cold Snap]), the first will now disappear and cease functioning. In addition, Ring of Frost now has a PvP duration of 8 seconds.
Hotfix (2010-12-15):No longer causes the mage to stand up (interrupting eating/drinking) while it is active.