Frost Warding ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the Armor and resistances granted by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to negate the warded damage spell, and increases the amount absorbed by your Ice Barrier and Frost Ward by 10%.
- Rank 2 Increases the Armor and resistances granted by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30%, gives your Frost Ward a 20% chance to negate the warded damage spell, and increases the amount absorbed by your Ice Barrier and Frost Ward by 20%.
What Frost Warding 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 armor and resistances given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.
- Rank 2 Increases the armor and resistances 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.
Where Frost Warding sits in the Frost tree
Frost Warding is a Frost talent for Mage. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Improved Frostbolt, Precision
How often people take Frost Warding
11 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (10%) put at least one point in Frost Warding. 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.
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)