Ice Shards ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 20%.
- Rank 2 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 40%.
- Rank 3 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 60%.
- Rank 4 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 80%.
- Rank 5 Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 100%.
Where Ice Shards sits in the Frost tree
Ice Shards is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 5 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Frostbite, Improved Frost Nova, Permafrost
How often people take Ice Shards
41 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (39%) put at least one point in Ice Shards. 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 Shards
4 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Ice Shards.
- Mage Frost 13/0/29 · 5/5 , 12 up
- Mage Frost 0/0/13 · 5/5 , 5 up
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 5/5 , 5 up
- Mage Frost 15/0/23 · 5/5 , 2 up
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)