Improved Blizzard

Mage · Frost · opens at 10 points spent · 3 ranks

Improved Blizzard works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Improved Blizzard ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 15% for 1.5 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 25% for 1.5 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 40% for 1.5 sec.

What Improved Blizzard 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 Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 30%. Lasts 1.5 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 50%. Lasts 1.5 sec.
  3. Rank 3 Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 65%. Lasts 1.5 sec.

Where Improved Blizzard sits in the Frost tree

Improved Blizzard is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 10 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Improved Blizzard

23 of the 109 public Mage builds saved here — 21% — put at least one point in Improved Blizzard. 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 Improved Blizzard

6 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Improved Blizzard.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.69893