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[[File:Wiz-frost-nova1.jpg|thumb|400px|right|Frost Nova in action.]]'''Frost Nova''' is a Utility Defensive [[Wizard skill]] unlocked at [[clvl|Level]] 24, sending out a flash of severe frost, damaging and often slowing enemies.
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==Background==
==Skill Skillrune Effects==
The following is a very quick list. See the [[Frost Nova rune effects]] page for a more thorough summary of rune effects, or any of the individual rune pages for numbers, screenshots, blue quotes, and much more.
==Skill Design==
[[image:Wiz-frostnova-runed1.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Frost Nova rune'd to freeze freezing EVERYONE]]
Frost Nova is pretty much the same [[skill]] it was in D2, but with vastly improved graphics. Instead of just a ring of frost, it now sends out a gaseous ring that's speckled with dozens of shooting, snowball-like projectiles. As it was in D2, the skill is not very damaging and is best used for defensive purposes, a fact that's reinforced by the eternity of a 12 second cool down it's saddled with.
<blockquote>''The nova doesn’t just chill, it freezes the non-bosses, and for more than a second, which I was surprised to see at just level one. Presumably chill time is reduced on higher difficulty levels, as it was in D2, but this was a very powerful spell for so low in the skill tree.</blockquote>
Skill tiers were removed for the [[July 2011 Press Event]], and Frost Nova became a level 1 skill.<br>In It was moved to level 2 during the [[beta]], and when the skill system was once again overhauled for the [[Beta Patch 13]] in February 2012, Frost Nova became was classified as a Defensive skill and moved to level 2 skill4.
