Hello, during my entire I have never sucesfully gotten any of my mages to any meaningfull strenght, I wanted to change that recently.
Now I have been mostly interested in trying the Frost mage out as I find it the most appealing and I haven’t really tested it out too much.
One of the things I have been wondering about is what exactly makes target “Frozen”, I know it is possible since I have obviously been frozen by mages several times, but I never found out which of the abilities exactly do the Freezing, and Id like to know that now.
Frozen, in terms of the Frost Mage Shatter passive basically means being rooted by any Mage’s Frost Nova, Freeze, Frostbite, Ice Nova or Glacial Spike.
It is also mimicked by the Winter’s Chill and Fingers of Frost effects, which enhance the damage/crit% of certain ability via Shatter, without the target being rooted.
Edit: It seems that Ring of Frost also counts as a Freeze, despite the ability and effect being labelled as an Incapacitate, it benefits from Deep Shatter’s damage boost to Frostbolt.
Flurry also creates frozen bonus when its buffed to instant cast.
Combo into Icelance will make it count as a frozen hit, same goes for any other spell you could push in (eg. ice comets into flurry into icelance).