Shatter, a Frost Mage talent in WoW Forever

Shatter is a passive talent in row 4 of the Frost tree. It needs 15 points in Frost, so the earliest you can take it is level 25 (up to 5 levels sooner with the Legacy perk Talented). It has 3 ranks. It has changed since Classic Era.

Shatter

3 ranks

Requires 15 points in Frost

Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 17%.

Every rank of Shatter

Rank	Text
Rank 1	Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 17%.
Rank 2	Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 33%.
Rank 3	Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 50%.

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 3)

Row below (row 5)

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

Compared with Classic Era

What differs from Classic Era: its rank 1 text, its position and its rank count.

Position

Classic Era

Frost, row 4, column 3

WoW Forever

Frost, row 4, column 4

Ranks

Classic Era

5 ranks

WoW Forever

3 ranks

Rank 1 text

Classic Era

Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 10%.

WoW Forever

Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 17%.

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All Frost talents

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.