Critical Mass ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 6%.
Where Critical Mass sits in the Fire tree
Critical Mass is a Fire talent for Mage. You need 20 points in Fire before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Combustion.
- Unlocks: Combustion
- Same row: Blast Wave
How often people take Critical Mass
25 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (24%) put at least one point in Critical Mass. 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 Critical Mass
One of the public Mage builds written up here spends points on Critical Mass.
- Mage Fire 7/28/3 · 3/3
Where this came from
Same as Classic (verified).
- Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
- the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)