Brain Freeze

Brain Freeze
	Brain Freeze; Row 4 Frost mage talent; Passive; Frostbolt has a 25% chance to reset the remaining cooldown on Flurry and cause your next Flurry to deal 50% increased damage.;
Properties
Class	Mage
Talents
Talent required	[Flurry]
Other information
Affects	[Frostbolt]
Improvements	[Frozen Touch]
Related buff
	; Brain Freeze ; Your next Flurry is instant cast and deals 50% increased damage. ; Duration: 15 seconds ;

For the TCG card, see Brain Freeze.

Brain Freeze is a Frost mage talent. It gives [Frostbolt] a chance to grant an instant-cast [Flurry] that deals increased damage.

Patch changes

Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
- [Frostbolt]'s chance to gain Brain Freeze reduced to 25% (was 30%).
- Now increases the damage of your next Flurry by 50% (was 65%).
Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Now causes Flurry to deal 65% additional damage (was 50%).
Hotfix (2022-11-18): Fixed an issue that caused Brain Freeze to not trigger from [Ebonbolt] if Brain Freeze was already active.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25):
- Brain Freeze now also resets the cooldown on Flurry. Now a row 4 Frost talent (was a level 32 Frost ability).
- Rank 2 removed; Winter's Chill has been merged into Flurry.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 32 (was 28). Rank 2 now learned at level 37 (was 48).
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Brain Freeze's delay has been modified so that it's no longer possible, with Haste, to land two Ice Lances during a single Winter's Chill.
Hotfix (2017-01-31): Brain Freeze procs gained while you already have a Brain Freeze active and unused will now be delayed slightly.

Developers' notes: The delay on the second Brain Freeze will give the Mage time to use the first Brain Freeze proc.

Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25):
- Now also increases the damage of your next Flurry by 50%.
- Winter's Chill effect moved to Rank 2 at level 48.
Hotfix (2016-08-08): Brain Freeze now gives your Frostbolt a 15% chance to empower your next Flurry (was 10%).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Redesigned: Frostbolt has a 15% chance to empower your next Flurry to apply Winter's Chill to the victim for 1 sec and be instant cast. Winter's Chill causes the target to take damage from your spells as if it were frozen. Now learned at level 28 (was 77).
Old: Your Frostbolts have a 10% chance to cause the Brain Freeze effect. Each multistrike increases that cast's chance by an additional 15%. The Brain Freeze effect causes your next Frostfire Bolt to cost no mana, be instant cast, deal 85% additional damage, and act as if your target were frozen.
Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now has a 15% increased chance to trigger on each multistrike (down from 25%).
Hotfix (2014-10-17):
- Brain Freeze now increases the damage of [Frostfire Bolt] by 85% (up from 25%).
- Resolved an issue where the Brain Freeze effect would sometimes not be used up when casting Frostfire Bolt.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Now triggers from Frostbolt instead of Nether Tempest, Living Bomb, or Frost Bomb. Each Multistrike of Frostbolt increases that cast's chance by an additional 25%. Now also increases Frostfire Bolt's damage by 25%, stacking up to 2 times.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Redesigned as a level 77 Frost ability (was a tier 4 Frost talent). Your most recently applied [Nether Tempest], [Living Bomb], or [Frost Bomb] spell has a chance when it deals damage to grant you the Brain Freeze effect. The Brain Freeze effect causes your next Frostfire Bolt to be instant cast, cost no mana, and act as if your target were frozen for 15 sec.
Old: Your spells no longer trigger Arcane Missiles. Instead, your Frost damage spells with chilling effects have a 5/10/15% chance to cause your next Fireball or Frostfire Bolt spell to be instant cast and cost no mana. When Frostfire Bolt is instant, it can benefit from Fingers of Frost. Brain Freeze cannot be triggered by Frostfire Bolt.
Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Can now proc from [Frostfire Orb] (Rank 2)
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now causes spells to no longer trigger [Arcane Missiles], and causes Frostfire Bolt to benefit from [Fingers of Frost]. Moved to tier 4 (was tier 9).
Hotfix (2010-03-31): Brain Freeze should no longer be triggered by casting Frostfire Bolt.
Patch 3.3.3 (2010-03-23): This talent now allows your next [Fireball] or Frostfire Bolt to be instant and cost no mana. There is a small internal cooldown to keep the Frostfire Bolt from immediately triggering Brain Freeze again.
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): This talent can now be triggered by [Blizzard].
Patch 3.0.2 (2008-10-14): Added.