Ice Shards ranks in Forever
- 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%.
Where Ice Shards sits in the Frost tree
Ice Shards is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 5 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.
- Same row: Permafrost, Improved Frost Nova, Frostbite
How often people take Ice Shards
45 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 39% — put at least one point in Ice Shards. 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