15 Mana · Instant · 5 min cooldown
Ice Block ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells.
What Ice Block 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 You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move or cast spells.
Where Ice Block sits in the Frost tree
Ice Block is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 15 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Arctic Reach, Shatter
How often people take Ice Block
32 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (30%) put at least one point in Ice Block. 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 Block
3 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Ice Block.
- Mage Frost 13/0/29 · 1/1 , 12 up
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 1/1 , 5 up
- Mage Frost 15/0/23 · 1/1 , 2 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)