Improved Icy Touch

Improved Icy Touch
	Improved Icy Touch (3 ranks); Tier 1 Frost death knight talent; Passive; Your Icy Touch does an additional 5/10/15% damage and your Frost Fever reduces melee and ranged attack speed by an additional 2/4/6%.;
Properties
Class	Death knight
Other information
Affects	[Icy Touch], [Frost Fever]

Improved Icy Touch is a death knight talent located on tier 1 of the Frost tree. It is a requirement for taking [Icy Talons] deeper in the tree. On its own, the talent is primarily useful for tanks, although it has some use in player versus player combat too by slowing down your opponent. For a tank, the talent is valuable both because it increases the damage (and thus threat) caused by [Icy Touch] and because it increases the slowing effect of [Frost Fever], which helps reduce incoming damage. Because of this, the talent is popular even with Blood and Unholy specced tanks.

Notes

By reducing attack speed further, the talent reduces the damage you take over time from enemy auto-attacks by 7%.
The slowing effect does not stack with other similar effects such as protection paladins' [Judgements of the Just], protection warriors' [Improved Thunder Clap] or feral druids' [Infected Wounds]. When fully talented, all of these abilities provide the exact same attack speed reduction.