Improved Blizzard ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 15% for 1.5 sec.
- Rank 2 Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 25% for 1.5 sec.
- 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.
- Rank 1 Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 30%. Lasts 1.5 sec.
- Rank 2 Adds a chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 50%. Lasts 1.5 sec.
- 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.
- Same row: Frost Channeling, Ice Lance
How often people take Improved Blizzard
19 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (18%) put at least one point in Improved Blizzard. 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 Improved Blizzard
3 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Improved Blizzard.
- Mage Arcane 18/0/14 · 3/3 , 21 up
- Mage Frost 13/0/29 · 1/3 , 12 up
- Mage Frost 11/0/32 · 3/3 , 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)