Frost Breath

Beast. Breathe a cone of frost, damaging and chilling foes. — In-game description

Frost Breath

 

Profession

Ranger (skill list)

Pet

Ice Drake

Slot

Pet (skill list)

Type

Beast

Game link

API

12696

This skill has an underwater replacement: Frost Nova

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10.5½  25  

Frost Breath

Beast. Breathe a cone of frost, damaging and chilling foes.

  Damage (5x): 2,585 (1.25)^?

 ₅ Chilled (1s): -66% Skill Recharge Rate, -66% Movement Speed

  Number of Targets: 5

  Range: 250

— In-game description

Related traits

Marksmanship

• Predator's Onslaught — You and your pet deal increased strike damage to disabled, defiant, or movement-impaired foes. Affected conditions are stun, taunt, daze, cripple, fear, immobilize, and chilled.

Wilderness Survival

• Empathic Bond — Using a Beast trait[sic] removes conditions from you and your pet. Swapping pets recharges this trait.
• Poison Master — Upon using a Beast ability, your pet's next attack will inflict poison; your poison damage is increased.

Nature Magic

• Rejuvenation — Beast skills now grant regeneration around the ranger.
• Invigorating Bond — Beast skills heal allies around the ranger.

Beastmastery

• Pack Alpha — Your pet's attributes are improved and pet skills gain recharge reduction. Improved attributes are power, condition damage, precision, toughness, and vitality.
• Go for the Eyes — Nearby foes are blinded by Beast abilities.
• Wilting Strike — Beast abilities inflict weakness on those struck. This effect will only occur once on each target struck by an ability.
• Beastly Warden — Beast abilities taunt nearby foes.

Soulbeast

• Live Fast — Using a Beast ability grants you offensive boons.
• Oppressive Superiority — Deal increased damage to foes at a lower health percentage than you. Conditions you apply to foes at a lower health percentage than you last longer.

Notes

• After this skill's initial cast time, the attack itself is channeled over 1.5 seconds.
• Pulses 5 times over the full duration of the channel, dealing damage and chilling enemies hit with each pulse.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
April 30, 2013	Reduced cast time from 2.7 seconds to 1.5 seconds.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Frost Breath has been added to the game.