Kurzübersicht

Screenshots

Videos

Kommentare

Kommentar von Bareno

The renamed Wall of Fog, apparently. (Not sure why they've changed the level you learn it though to 83)

Kommentar von kittyrar

This spell seems to be primarily intended for PvP. Think WSG when the enemies are charging out of your flag room with your flag, you hit this across the entrance and they're all snared ready for your team mates to catch up and bash on them.

Kommentar von 613423

So does this mean once you step into the curtain, you take damage and a chill effect, but then can remain in the curtain for as long as it lasts? Or does it deal repetitive damage to anyone staying inside of it and continually refresh the chill effect until they leave?
The last one makes this move sound much more impressive, so I really hope that's how it works, but the tooltip doesn't do a very good job of clarifying...

Kommentar von 368807

I seriously hope they change the spell icon or I might click this for Ice Lance and vice versa...

Kommentar von 11715

It's instant.

The " Effect #2 Apply Aura: Periodically trigger spell Interval: 0 second" line means the AREA it's active will trigger the effect every second for anyone standing over it. Or at least it's what I think.

I think it's listed this way and not "Persistent Area Aura: Periodic Damage" like other ground sticking AoEs because it's not only damage, but the ensnare too, that is reaplied each moment you spend over it.

It would be completely useless otherwise, only a lame version of imp. Blizzard.

Being instant, it's an incredible ability for PvP at least. Finally I'll spot feeling jealous cause hunters have ensnaring trap and I don't :)

Kommentar von 625073

Surely this could be used as an extra AoE in PvE? I'm not saying it would be a good source of damage all the time but in an AoE heavy situation, this plus Flamestrike and Blizzard could be pretty potent.

Kommentar von Malygoso

This could be nice in PvP if you were to use it to slow enemies down then using your frostfire orb to deal some nice damage and slow them down for others to attack.

Kommentar von theyann

Why would they not name this Sheet Ice? Curtain of Frost is a rubbish name.

Kommentar von Sakanade

The reason that MMO-Champion has listed RoF as being a Channeled spell (as it did with it's prior incarnations in the form of Curtain of Frost) is because it Is channeled.

The cinch is that it is not channeled by the Mage.

Effect #1
Summon (44199)
Value: 1
Radius: 10 yards

As you can see, casting Ring of Frost summons an NPC, this NPC channels the spell, not the Mage, as Lhivera points out in the following post.

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html;jsessionid=517BFE40D3841E52C1504CB64FFD3713.blade23_04?topicId=26859189966&postId=268564739970&sid=1

The NPC is for all intents and purposes Invisible, Untargettable and Invulnerable.

Hopefully, this clears up some misunderstandings.

Secondly, i'd like to point out that Sigrie lists one of the effects as being a Stun

http://db.mmo-champion.com/s/82691/

A 10 Second Stun.

(Note that both Hungering Cold, Frost Nova and Ice Trap's tooltips describe their effects as 'Freezing' the target, despite their effects being vastly different)

This version of RoF is arguably more useful in both PvE and PvP. In PvP, a 10 second stun categorised as a 'Freeze' is extremely harsh punishment and in PvE, it allows the Mage a really solid form of Group CC - That and the fact that a Shatter-Blizzard combo makes for much Popping floaty yellow numbers.

Edit: As it stands on the Beta, RoF only affects targets that are standing on the outer rim of it's Reticule.

The stun is not so much a stun as it is an Ice Trap - It breaks on Damage.
The 'Freeze' effect does not interact with Shatter.

Taken from : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=24702262953&sid=2000&pageNo=92

Edit2/3/4: A few Beta posters tested the new RoF on Dummies and apparently, it does not break on damage when the Frozen targets are Dummies...finally managed to clear up the fact that it Does in fact break on damage.

Edit 5 : Video showing the Visual effect

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK2sDncwdEM

As you can see it's NOT Channeled.

Kommentar von 671812

Did anyone else think about the potential this could have with Shatter () in PvP but also in PvE? Mobs can take a while to down even in Cata heroics, so this is 12-ish sec. of CC and 3x crit multiplier for any spec...

i like it

Kommentar von JustAnt

This is most likely a place-holder icon, which Blizzard will eventually change when they finish implementing the spell completly, or design an interesting icon for it!

-This comment was made before the icon was changed to what it is now. It had the Ice Lance Icon at first.

Kommentar von 466347

I think it's like a tool for the mage to stand ground against melees... Or a little help for the mage to sit and drink more often!

Kommentar von Reixes

I guess you could say that this spell....
*puts on glasses*
...is pretty cool.

YEEAAAAAAAAA!

Kommentar von Benegesserit

It appears Blizzard has resorted to literally disabling this spell on certain raid encounters. You'll get an error similar to spell/items disabled in Arena when you enter combat for certain boss encounters.

I suppose this is fine if it means it won't be nerfed to the ground for PvP. I realize it could trivialize some add phases in PvE, so I don't mind this odd workaround as long as they don't hurt the spell in any other way.

Kommentar von 139162

So now that cata's all ready to go for launch, what does the final version of the spell do?

Does it root like the pet nova and enable shatter? Does the freeze effect break on any damage or after a certain amount?

Because 10s is a really long time, but if it just breaks on the first Ice Lance, it's kind of lackluster.

Kommentar von Novawolf

I found it interesting that only creatures that actually WALK OVER the rim of the ring are frozen. Hostiles inside the ring are untouched, however, will be frozen if they attempt to leave.

Tested this on a trio of target dummies. Placed the target ring on the middle dummy, the two to the sides were frozen, but the middle was not.

Quite the interesting form of shutting someone down. Not frozen, but unable to exit the ring until it dissipates.

Kommentar von PotatoBus

Does anyone know if members of the opposite faction can see the ground effect? Been throwing this out at Allies in the Crucible in Twilight Highlands and laughing, trying to determine if they're just blind or can't see it coming...

Kommentar von 718667

ah, the spell that singlehandedly broke rated SotA before it even started.

Kommentar von Slunko

This spell possibly has the coolest spelleffect currently ingame... It's friggin epic, great in pve and pvp... I don't see why anyone would complain here...

Kommentar von 46440

I'm curious, if a mage is inside the ring an blinks outside of the ring will he/she be frozen solid as well?

Kommentar von 443789

Am i crazy or does it seem like not many people are using this spell in PVP?

I find it's a dominating spell in Arathi Basin. Storm a flag controlled by your opponent, cast it around the flag and watch your team slaughter the alliance. When done, cap the flag.

I also find its' really useful in 1-on-1 situations with melee. I throw it down around me, and stand in the middle daring melee to come in after me.

I love this spell.

Kommentar von Kanfazar

Indeed. At first I wasn't sure how useful this spell would be, but then I realized Ring of Frost absolutely shines in both looks and usefulness especially in one place: Battlegrounds. It's one of the most fun and awesome spells ever added to the arsenal of mages when it comes to BGs, and we can only hope other classes won't complain too much and get it nerfed. Effective locations include:

Warsong Gulch: Flagroom tunnels and doorways, flag rooms themselves, graveyards if you're mean. Also wonderful for stopping or slowing the enemy chasing your flag carrier and the enemy flag carrier's group. You'd be surprised (or not) how often the enemy flag carrier keeps running alone when his group of 4 have frozen behind him.

Arathi Basin: Not as useful here, but good to defend a flag or to defend yourself while capping one. Also places like the roads to Lumber Mill. Nice for slowing a zerg going to capture a node.

Alterac Valley: Awesome in boss rooms of both sides, also in Horde towers because the effect goes through the walls when placed on the flag in the middle, basically making the entire top of the tower a freezing zone. Also works to slow down the initial midfield zerg, though that's more easily avoided. Another good place is the bridge to the Alliance base when defending.

Eye of the Storm: Works well in the middle or when defending a node, otherwise a bit marginal here aside from slowing groups like in Arathi Basin.

Strand of the Ancients: Can be used to completely block broken gates, and yet another way to slow attackers when defending a tank. These two can be combined for a powerful tool of victory.

Isle of Conquest: Again powerful at blocking broken gates and in the boss room. Also useful for smaller areas such as the Refinery and Quarry. And around flags, of course.

Battle for Gilneas: Not as open as Arathi Basin so more useful here, great when used on chokepoints such as the river near Waterworks and flags in general. The small size of the BG makes freezing groups of players easier.

Twin Peaks: Same as Warsong Gulch, works wonders on doorways and also the bridge in the middle, especially when stopping/supporting the flag carrier. The ramp to the main entrance of bases works too if you can time it right or freeze the enemy group on the ring. Other places include the side entrances of the bases and wherever you see a large bunch of bad guys.

Kommentar von 119906

Not affected by Diminishing Returns AFAIK... Used my trinket and got frozen right after again for a whole 10 seconds.

To be honest, anyone that's not a mage will HATE this spell. It's annoying to deal with, and the only way I wanna kill a mage inside this damn ring is to Bladestorm him.

Melee classes have so much trouble with frost mages in general anyways, why do they have to make it even harder?

:(

Kommentar von Ganbantein

Ghostcrawler talking about frost pvp:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-Z6tfik8Bs

Kommentar von Venator

It doesn't put you in combat in pvp.

It's great for messing with low level alliance (or horde) when doing archaeology in low level areas.

Kommentar von Sakanade

Ring of Frost

7% Base Mana 30 yd range
Instant cast 2 minute cooldown

The Mage weeds out any and all players that made
the transition from PvE content to PvP content simply
because they were unable to avoid standing in the
proverbial 'Fire'.

Kommentar von Kanariya

I guess you could say it's being slightly nerfed in the upcoming patch. Its radius is down to 8 yards, and whoever breaks out of it is immune to freeze effects for three seconds. I'd say it's definitely necessary in PvP, considering this is an instant cast and not channeled.

Kommentar von 233454

Trick Your Enemies!
In a giant fight, blink in the middle of your enemies. Pop RoF on top of yourself. Cast Ice Block.
You are now disguised within your enemies.

Kommentar von Sleuth

Novawolf

Hostiles inside the ring are untouched, however, will be frozen if they attempt to leave.

This is a very important fact about Ring of Frost.
The latest PTR patch notes have clarified this:

Ring of Frost: 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.

In short, when you pass over the "outside ring" of the graphic, you will be frozen. If you remain in the centre, or do not move into the ring, you should be fine.

Kommentar von yuukaze

tbh this skill should be modified not to work against players, it's just as "unfair" as old death and decay with rng fear effect.

Kommentar von 200858

This is like the hunter frost trap on Steroids and a big cooldown. Unlike frost trap, everyone can see this and can avoid it accordingly if you're smart.

The huge ring itself is a great keep-away, but it also traps and limits movement. there are certain abilities that can help you move out of the ring, but to waste a ability just to get out of the ring or move away from it is troublesome itself. Some good ones that come to mind are ones that prevent you from walking over the ability like disengage and heroic leap, but i seen Charge work too.

Kommentar von fmccloud

Don't see it mentioned here, but Ring of Frost is a different tint of color depending on what faction casted it.

Alliance = blue
Horde = red

It's faint, but should help determine whether or not you should be standing on the ring. =D

Kommentar von INvShika

Didn't see it explicitly stated anywhere: in PvE situations, does this break immediately on damage? Or does it break after a certain amount of damage (Hex, Fear)?

Kommentar von oregac

Pro tip (I suppose): When being pummeled by a melee, pop RoF on top of yerself, wait about a second, Frost Nova or Cone of Cold, Blink. /lol when a warrior does a heroic leap! :D

Kommentar von Tripster

Eh, useful, but not a problem for an enh shammy! Simply place Grounding Totem, and teammates in the area are freed. Theoretically, at least.

Edit: Opps, i meant earthbind.

Kommentar von gemanoma

Why i cant see the ring graphic when i used this spell? I only can see the fog D:

Kommentar von Necrachilles

I'm actually pretty sure this is only active on the PTR and it's not colored for Horde/Alliance. Friendly Rings of Frost will be blue and hostile Rings will be red so it's easier to avoid the correct ones.
------------------------------------------------

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/blog/2356431#classes

•Several persistent ground effects now display different visuals for hostile and friendly players. The following spells have the same visual effects for friendly players, but new alternate visuals for hostile players: Ring of Frost, Consecration, Desecration, Wild Mushroom, Flare, Ice Trap, Power Word: Barrier, Smoke Bomb, and Hand of Gul'dan. As a general rule, the alternate effects have a red tint or hue indicating they are created by an enemy player.

Kommentar von Kanariya

~~Slated to have a 1.5 second cast time in 4.2 according to Blizzard's PTR notes.~~ This change was reverted in a later build. Ring of Frost now shares Diminishing Returns with Deep Freeze.

Kommentar von 938647

This spell proves players are smarter than NPCs.

Kommentar von 950572

Interesting thing about Ring of Frost
I've tested this with my mage and a friend of mine (Druid)

i did RoF and then he used cyclone on me and entered the ring without being frozen.. I'm not sure if there is other abilities that does the same thing.. it will be helpful if someone test other abilities (and confirm what i did).

Probably if u cc the mage his/her RoF will be ineffective.. need more testing though.

3D-Ansicht Links

Ring des Frosts

Ring des Frosts

7% von Grundmana	30 Meter Reichweite

Sofort	2 min Abklingzeit

Beschwört im ausgewählten Gebiet einen Frostzirkel, der 3 sec benötigt, um sich vollständig zu schließen. Gegner, die den vollständig geschlossenen Zirkel betreten, werden 10 sec lang eingefroren. Der Zirkel hält 12 sec lang an und hat einen Radius von 10 Metern.

Zauberdetails

Dauer

12 sekunden

Magieart

Frost

Mechanik

n/a

Bannart

n/a

GCD-Kategorie

Normal

Kosten

7% von Grundmana

Reichweite

30 Meter (Mittel)

Zauberzeit

Sofort

Abklingzeit

2 Minuten

GCD

1.5 sekunden

Effekt #1

Summon (Ring des Frosts)
Wert: 2
Radius: 8 Meter
PVP-Multiplikator: 1

Effekt #2

Apply Aura: [Periodically trigger spell]
Wert: 11 alle 100 millisekunden
PVP-Multiplikator: 1

Flags

Kann nicht verwendet werden, während Ihr gestaltverwandelt seid
Kann nicht reflektiert werden
Alle Zaubereffekte sind schädlich
Generiert keine Bedrohung
Kein Aura-Icon
Ignoriere Sichtlinie
Keine Initialbedrohung
Kein Zauber-Log
Kein Aura-Log
Keine 'Beschwörung + Ziel vom Clienten'-Zielsetzungswegfindungsvoraussetzung
Abklingzeit bei Kampfende zurücksetzen

Ring des Frosts

Stärkungszauber

Zauberdetails

Weiteres

Beitragen