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Mastery: Icicles
Spell frost iceshard
  • Mastery: Icicles
  • Level 10 Frost mage ability
  • Passive
  • Casting Frostbolt or Flurry grants you an Icicle. Casting Ice Lance causes all Icicles stored to begin launching at the target, each dealing (0.1% of Spell power) Frost damage.

    Up to 5 Icicles can be stored. Any excess Icicles gained will be automatically launched.

    Increases the damage of Frozen Orb, Blizzard, and Comet Storm by 9%.

    Increases the damage of Ice Lance, Glacial Spike, and Ray of Frost by 6%
Properties
Class Mage
Other information
Level learned 10
Improvements Spell hunter icetrap [Flash Freeze], Spell frost frostbolt [Piercing Cold], Spell frost ice shards [Splitting Ice]

Mastery: Icicles is the Frost mage mastery effect, improved by the mastery secondary stat. It allows the mage to generate and store Icicles by casting Spell frost frostbolt02 [Frostbolt] or Ability warlock burningembersblue [Flurry], and unleash them with Spell frost frostblast [Ice Lance]. It also increases damage dealt by Spell frost frozenorb [Frozen Orb].

Notes[]

  • Base mastery is 8%. Every 1% of mastery increases Spell frost frozenorb [Frozen Orb] damage by approximately 1.8%. The Icicles' damage is based on a combination of mastery and spell power.
  • Taking the Ability mage glacialspike [Glacial Spike] talent will cause Ice Lance to no longer launch Icicles. Excess Icicles will continue to passively launch.

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage of icicles reduced by 25%. Mastery now also increases the damage of Spell frost icestorm [Blizzard], Spell mage cometstorm2 [Comet Storm], Spell frost frostblast [Ice Lance], Ability mage glacialspike [Glacial Spike], and Ability mage rayoffrost [Ray of Frost].
  • Dragonflight Hotfix (2023-01-09): Reduced Glacial Spike's damage increased from Spell frost iceshard [Mastery: Icicles] by 25%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): Damage increased by 12%.
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 10 (was 78).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.2.0 (2019-06-25): Damage bonus increased by 15%.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Icicle damage is now based on the caster's mastery and spell power, rather than Frostbolt damage. Icicles are now granted by Flurry in addition to Frostbolt. Additionally, this mastery will now increase Frozen Orb damage, and no longer affects the Mage's Water Elemental.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer includes Ability mage frostfirebolt [Frostfire Bolt], multistrikes, and Water Jet. Now learned at level 78 (was 80).
  • Warlords of Draenor Patch 6.2.0 (2015-06-23): Now 13% more effective.
  • Mists of Pandaria Hotfix (2014-02-26): Resolved an issue where Icicles stored by Frost Mage's Mastery: Icicles was dealing more damage than intended when used against party or raid members that are under a Mind Control or Charm effect from NPCs in PvE.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Added, replacing Spell frost frostarmor [Frostburn].

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