Shatter

Mage · Frost · opens at 15 points spent · 3 ranks

Shatter works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.

Shatter ranks in Forever

  1. Rank 1 Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 10%.
  2. Rank 2 Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 20%.
  3. Rank 3 Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against frozen targets by 30%.

Where Shatter sits in the Frost tree

Shatter is a Frost talent for Mage. You need 15 points in Frost before the row it sits on opens.

How often people take Shatter

35 of the 114 public Mage builds saved here — 31% — put at least one point in Shatter. 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

Changed in Forever.

  • BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage