Missile Barrage, an Arcane Mage talent in WoW Forever

Missile Barrage is a passive talent in row 4 of the Arcane tree. It needs 15 points in Arcane, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 1 rank. It is new in Forever and has no Classic counterpart.

Missile Barrage

1 rank

• Requires 15 points in Arcane

Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your 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.

Every rank of Missile Barrage

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Gives your Arcane Blast spell a 40% chance, and your 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 it sits in the Arcane tree

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Needs

No prerequisite talent

Unlocks

No talent needs it

Same row

• Arcane Shielding
• Improved Counterspell
• Arcane Meditation

Row above (row 3)

• Arcane Geometry
• Arcane Impact
• Arcane Blast

Row below (row 5)

• Presence of Mind
• Arcane Mind

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

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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.