Blizzard // Winter's Chill

[Eirikz]

Hi, so I'm playing a mage for the first time in BC, and I was wondering why Blizzard doesn't proc Winter's Chill? All I found from the forums is the following bugreport which allegedly fixed a bug: https://www.warmane.com/bugtracker/report/44555 , but as far as I can tell, it broke the spells interactions?

Winter's Chill: "Gives your Frost damage spells a XX% chance to apply the Winter's chill effect..."

Blizzard: "Ice shards pelt the target area doing XX Frost damage over 8 sec."

Am I missing something or did they break a spell that worked in the first place before being "fixed"

xoxo
Eirikz

[mercibeaucoup]

Isn't there a talent in the frost tree that adds it to blizzard?

[Eirikz]

There is a talent giving it a chill effect, but that shouldn't matter as spells like Ice Lance applies WC without having any chill effect to it

[Eirikz]

Bump. Anyone know what's going on here?

[Whiksey]

Working as intended.

While the tooltip is misleading, looking at the wiki history for Winter's Chill shows that Blizzard never did apply it in retail. Best I could find was a forum post suggesting that Blizzard(company) thought that Blizzard(spell) applying winter's chill to mass targets would be overpowered.

Reference (wiki article rolled back to April 2008/patch 2.4.1):
http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Winter...?oldid=1295963