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Frost Warding, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Frost Warding is a passive talent in row 1 of the Frost tree. It needs no points in Frost, so you can take it from level 10 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 2 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Frost Warding

2 ranks

Increases the Armor and resistance given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

Every rank of Frost Warding

RankText
Rank 1Increases the Armor and resistance given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.
Rank 2Increases the Armor and resistance given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 30%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 20% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.

Where it sits in the Frost tree

Frost WardingImproved FrostboltElemental PrecisionIce ShardsPermafrostImproved Frost NovaFrostbitePiercing IceFrost ChannelingIce LanceImproved BlizzardArctic ReachIce BlockShatterImproved Cone of ColdCold SnapFingers of FrostWinter's ChillIce Barrier
Needs
No prerequisite talent
Unlocks
No talent needs it
Same row
Row above
None: this is the first row
Row below (row 2)

Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Frost Warding.

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text.

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the armor and resistances given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

WoW Forever

Increases the Armor and resistance given by your Frost Armor and Ice Armor spells by 15%. In addition, gives your Frost Ward a 10% chance to reflect Frost spells and effects while active.

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All Frost talents

  1. Frost Warding
  2. Improved Frostbolt
  3. Elemental Precision
  4. Ice Shards
  5. Permafrost
  6. Improved Frost Nova
  7. Frostbite
  8. Piercing Ice
  9. Frost Channeling
  10. Ice Lance
  11. Improved Blizzard
  12. Arctic Reach
  13. Ice Block
  14. Shatter
  15. Improved Cone of Cold
  16. Cold Snap
  17. Fingers of Frost
  18. Winter's Chill
  19. Ice Barrier

The other Mage trees: Arcane and Fire. Everything that changed for the Mage since Classic is on the changes page.

Game data from the WoW Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.70291, as published by talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0) on 2026-10-08 and reformatted by us. Numbers can still change before launch.