Ice Shards, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever
Ice Shards is a passive talent in row 2 of the Frost tree. It needs 5 points in Frost, so the earliest you can take it is level 15 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 5 ranks. It is the same as in Classic Era.
Ice Shards
5 ranks
- Requires 5 points in Frost
Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 20%.
Every rank of Ice Shards
| Rank | Text |
|---|---|
| Rank 1 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 20%. |
| Rank 2 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 40%. |
| Rank 3 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 60%. |
| Rank 4 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 80%. |
| Rank 5 | Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 100%. |
Numbers in gold changed from the rank above.
Where it sits in the Frost tree
- Needs
- No prerequisite talent
- Unlocks
- No talent needs it
- Same row
- Row above (row 1)
- Row below (row 3)
Row numbers are on the left and the number in a corner is a talent's rank count. Gold marks Ice Shards.
Compared with Classic Era
Ice Shards is the same as in Classic Era.
It sits in the same place, has the same number of ranks and has the same rank 1 text.
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All Frost talents
- Frost Warding
- Improved Frostbolt
- Elemental Precision
- Ice Shards
- Permafrost
- Improved Frost Nova
- Frostbite
- Piercing Ice
- Frost Channeling
- Ice Lance
- Improved Blizzard
- Arctic Reach
- Ice Block
- Shatter
- Improved Cone of Cold
- Cold Snap
- Fingers of Frost
- Winter's Chill
- 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.