Arctic Reach
Mage · Frost · opens at 15 points spent · 2 ranks
Arctic Reach works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes
Arctic Reach ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the range of your Frostbolt, Ice Lance, and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the range of your Frostbolt, Ice Lance, and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 20%.
What Arctic Reach does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases the range of your Frostbolt and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the range of your Frostbolt and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 20%.
Where Arctic Reach sits in the Frost tree
Arctic Reach is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 15 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.
How often people take Arctic Reach
25 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (24%) put at least one point in Arctic Reach. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Builds that take Arctic Reach
2 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Arctic Reach.
- Mage Frost 13/0/29 · 2/2 , 12 up
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 2/2 , 5 up
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)