305 Mana · Instant · 30 sec cooldown
Ice Barrier ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Shield yourself, absorbing (448 + 10% of Frost Spell Power) damage and increasing your Frost damage by 15% for 1 min. While shielded, your Frost damage is increased by an additional 5% and you do not lose casting time when you take 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.
- 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.
- Requires: Cold Snap
How often people take Ice Barrier
18 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (17%) put at least one point in Ice Barrier. 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 Ice Barrier
One of the public Mage builds written up here spends points on Ice Barrier.
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 1/1 , 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)