FROST MAGE
Frost Mage is built on the Frost talent tree and plays as a damage dealer in raids. The tree has 19 talents: 2 new in Forever, 12 changed from Classic.
FROST GUIDE
We'll write the Frost Mage rotation, stat priority and recommended build as the beta data settles. For now, see the talent tree below, the talent calculator and the class discussions on the forum.
WHAT IT BRINGS TO A RAID
The catalogue has no raid contribution tied only to Frost; the ones below apply to every Mage.
DIFFERENT IN FOREVER
- Winter's Chill: Gave crit to all Frost spells in Classic; in Forever only to the mage's own Ice Lance / Frostbolt.
EVERY MAGE BRINGS
Intellect (Arcane Brilliance)DecurseInterruptWater and foodCC: Humanoid
DETAILS ON THE CLASS PAGE →TALENTS
Hover or tap a talent to read it below. Text is for the final rank.
2Frost Warding
5Improved Frostbolt
5Elemental Precision
5Ice Shards
3Permafrost
2Improved Frost Nova
3Frostbite
3Piercing Ice
3Frost Channeling
1Ice Lance
3Improved Blizzard
2Arctic Reach
1Ice Block
3Shatter
3Improved Cone of Cold
1Cold Snap
2Fingers of Frost
5Winter's Chill
1Ice Barrier- Frost WardingRow 1 · 2 rankChanged
Increases the Armor and resistance given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 20% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.
- Improved FrostboltRow 1 · 5 rank
Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.5 sec.
- Elemental PrecisionRow 1 · 5 rankChanged
Improves your chance to hit with Frost and Fire spells by 5%.
- Ice ShardsRow 2 · 5 rank
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 100%.
- PermafrostRow 2 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 33% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 10%.
- Improved Frost NovaRow 2 · 2 rank
Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 4 sec.
- FrostbiteRow 2 · 3 rankMoved
Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to Freeze the target for 5 sec.
- Piercing IceRow 3 · 3 rank
Increases the damage done by your Frost spells by 6%.
- Frost ChannelingRow 3 · 3 rankMoved
Reduces the mana cost of your Frost spells by 15% and reduces the threat caused by your Frost spells by 30%.
- Ice LanceRow 3 · 1 rank · activeNew
Deals 28 to 32 Frost damage to an enemy target. Deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets.
- Improved BlizzardRow 3 · 3 rankChanged
Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 40% for 1.5 sec.
- Arctic ReachRow 4 · 2 rank
Increases the range of your Frostbolt and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 20%.
- Ice BlockRow 4 · 1 rank · activeMoved
You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells.
- ShatterRow 4 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 50%.
- Improved Cone of ColdRow 5 · 3 rankChanged
Increases the damage dealt by your Cone of Cold spell by 35%.
- Cold SnapRow 5 · 1 rank · activeChanged
Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells.
- Fingers of FrostRow 5 · 2 rankNew
Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 2 spells cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.
- Winter's ChillRow 6 · 5 rankChanged
Gives your Frost damage spells a 100% chance to apply the Winter's Chill effect, which increases the chance your Ice Lance and Frostbolt spells will critically hit the target by 2% for 15 sec. Stacks up to 5 times.
- Ice BarrierRow 7 · 1 rank · activeChanged
Instantly shields you, absorbing 447 damage. Lasts 1 min. While the shield holds, your spellcasts will not be interrupted or delayed from taking damage.
Talent, spell, race and raid data: talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0), from the WoW Forever beta client; data date 2026-10-14. Numbers can lag live tuning. Spell names, icons and tooltip text belong to Blizzard Entertainment. Mage talent calculator.