Improved Counterspell

Mage · Arcane · opens at 15 points spent · 2 ranks

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

Improved Counterspell ranks in Forever

Rank 1 Your Counterspell also Silences the target for 2 sec.
Rank 2 Your Counterspell also Silences the target for 4 sec.

What Improved Counterspell 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 Gives your Counterspell a 50% chance to silence the target for 4 sec.
Rank 2 Gives your Counterspell a 100% chance to silence the target for 4 sec.

Where Improved Counterspell sits in the Arcane tree

Improved Counterspell is a Arcane talent for Mage. You need 15 points in Arcane before the row it sits on opens.

Same row: Arcane Shielding, Arcane Meditation, Missile Barrage

How often people take Improved Counterspell

13 of the 109 public Mage builds saved here — 12% — put at least one point in Improved Counterspell. 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 Counterspell

3 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Improved Counterspell.

Where this came from

Changed in Forever.

Forever client build 1.60.1.69893