Ice Barrier

Mage · Frost · opens at 30 points spent · 1 rank

Ice Barrier works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

305 Mana · Instant · 30 sec cooldown

Ice Barrier ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Instantly shields you, absorbing 448 damage. Lasts 1 min. While the shield holds, your spellcasts will not be interrupted or delayed from taking damage.

What Ice Barrier 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.

  1. Rank 1 Instantly shields you, absorbing 455 damage. Lasts 1 min. While the shield holds, spells will not be interrupted.

Where Ice Barrier sits in the Frost tree

Ice Barrier is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 30 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens. It also requires Cold Snap first.

How often people take Ice Barrier

29 of the 109 public Mage builds saved here — 27% — put at least one point in Ice Barrier. Counted across the 1498 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 Ice Barrier

6 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Ice Barrier.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893