Improved Channeling ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 20% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 14% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
- Rank 2 Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 40% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 28% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
- Rank 3 Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 60% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 42% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
- Rank 4 Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 80% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 56% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
- Rank 5 Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 100% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 70% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
What Improved Channeling 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. In Classic Era it is called Improved Arcane Missiles.
- Rank 1 Gives you a 20% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
- Rank 2 Gives you a 40% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
- Rank 3 Gives you a 60% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
- Rank 4 Gives you a 80% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
- Rank 5 Gives you a 100% chance to avoid interruption caused by damage while channeling Arcane Missiles.
Where Improved Channeling sits in the Arcane tree
Improved Channeling is a Arcane talent for Mage. It sits on the first row, so it can be taken straight away.
- Same row: Wand Specialization, Arcane Resilience
How often people take Improved Channeling
22 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (21%) put at least one point in Improved Channeling. 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 Channeling
One of the public Mage builds written up here spends points on Improved Channeling.
- Mage Frost 15/0/23 · 2/5 , 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)