Critical Mass

Mage · Fire · opens at 20 points spent · 3 ranks

Critical Mass has been read from Forever footage and matches its Classic Era wording.

Critical Mass ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 2%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 4%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the critical strike chance of your Fire spells by 6%.

Where Critical Mass sits in the Fire tree

Critical Mass is a Fire talent for Mage. You need 20 points in Fire before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Combustion.

How often people take Critical Mass

25 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 22% — put at least one point in Critical Mass. 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.

Where this came from

Same as Classic (verified).

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage