Icy Veins

Icy Veins
	Icy Veins; Row 7 Frost mage talent; 2 min cooldown; Instant; Accelerates your spellcasting for 25 sec, granting 20% haste and preventing damage from delaying your spellcasts.; ; Activating Icy Veins summons a water elemental to your side for its duration. The water elemental's abilities grant you Frigid Empowerment increasing the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.;
Properties
Class	Mage
School	Frost
Cooldown	2 minutes
Talents
Talent required	[Wintertide] or [Snowstorm]
Improvements	[Cryopathy]
Related buff
	; Icy Veins ; Haste increased by 20% and immune to pushback. ; Duration: 25 seconds ;

For the Season of Discovery rune, see [Icy Veins]. For the website, see Icy Veins (website).

Icy Veins is a Frost mage talent.

Improvements

Class talents
- [Rune of Power]
- [Time Anomaly]
Frost talents
PvP talents
- [Ice Form]

Glyphs

Several glyphs are available to change the summoned elemental's appearance:

Notes and trivia

Icy Veins stacks with bloodlust effects.
Icy Veins does not trigger the global cooldown.
Icy Veins is...
- A rare mage talent in the Trading Card Game. Its flavor text reads: "'How can you freeze magi in their tracks when their veins are already filled with ice water?!' —Pidge Filthfinder"
- One of Jaina's talents in Heroes of the Storm. On use, it causes her abilities to cooldown faster and reduces their mana costs.

Patch changes

Hotfix (2024-03-12): Water Elemental's Waterbolt and Water Jet damage increased by 25%.
Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
- Cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes) and Haste reduced to 20% (was 30%).
- Activating Icy Veins now also summons a water elemental to your for its duration.
- Icy Veins Water Elemental abilities:
  - Water Jet cooldown increased to 20 seconds (was 45 seconds).
  - Water Jet damage increased by 75%.
  - Waterbolt damage increased by 50%.
  - Freeze now applies maximum stacks for Frigid Empowerment.
  - Frigid Empowerment increases the Frost damage you deal by 3%, up to 15%.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 7 Frost talent (was a level 29 Frost ability). Rank 2 removed.
Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Icy Veins can no longer be dispelled.
Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Rank 2 added at level 56: Duration increased by 3 seconds.
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): No longer has a global cooldown. Now learned at level 29 (was 40).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now increases haste by 30% (was 20%). Now learned at level 40 (was 36).
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Mana cost removed. Now a level 36 Frost ability (was a tier 3 Frost talent).
Patch 3.0.8 (2009-01-20): The spell pushback reduction from this talent now works on [Frostfire Bolt].
Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): No longer increases the chance your chilling effects will Freeze the target, but now increases the chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while casting any spell by 100% while active.
Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Added.