Missile Barrage

Mage · Arcane · opens at 5 points spent · 2 ranks

Missile Barrage does not exist in Classic Era. It is new in World of Warcraft: Forever.

Changed in the latest patch (Blizzard's 2 November changes). See the patch notes

Missile Barrage ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 20% chance, and your Arcane Wrath, Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 10% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles fire every 0.5 sec.
  2. Rank 2 Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your Arcane Wrath, Fireball, Frostbolt, and Frostfire Bolt spells a 20% chance to reduce the channeled duration of your next Arcane Missiles spell by 50%, reduce the Mana cost by 100%, and missiles fire every 0.5 sec.

Where Missile Barrage sits in the Arcane tree

Missile Barrage is a Arcane talent for Mage. You need 5 points in Arcane before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Missile Barrage

49 of the 106 public Mage builds saved here (46%) put at least one point in Missile Barrage. 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 Missile Barrage

8 of the public Mage builds written up here spend points on Missile Barrage.

Where this came from

New in Forever.

  • Forever client build 1.60.1.70755
  • the WoW: Forever client's hotfix cache, 4 November 2026 (DBCache.bin, build 70755)