In short
- Compare how hard a Fireball, Frostbolt and Frostfire Bolt crit hits with your talents.
- Reproduces Blizzard's official example (280% with both talents maxed).
- Intermediate ranks use the Classic values.
Crit multiplier
Move the Ice Shards (Frost) and Ignite (Fire) ranks to see how much damage a crit of each spell deals compared with a normal hit.
Classic reference: This is how it works in WoW Classic. Forever has not announced a change; not yet checked in game.Source:Blizzard EntertainmentBlizzard Entertainment: World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage & Shaman (opens in a new tab)Ice Shards (Classic)Warcraft Wiki: Ice Shards (Classic) (opens in a new tab)Ignite (Classic)Warcraft Wiki: Ignite (Classic) (opens in a new tab)
How it is calculated
- A spell crit deals 150% damage (+50%). Classic reference: This is how it works in WoW Classic. Forever has not announced a change; not yet checked in game.
- Ice Shards raises that bonus by 20% per rank for Frost spells: at 5/5 the crit becomes 200%. Classic reference: This is how it works in WoW Classic. Forever has not announced a change; not yet checked in game.
- Ignite burns for 8% per rank of the crit’s damage over 4 s for Fire spells: 40% at 5/5. Classic reference: This is how it works in WoW Classic. Forever has not announced a change; not yet checked in game.
- Frostfire Bolt counts as Fire and Frost, so it gets both: 200% + 40% of 200% = 280%. That is exactly Blizzard’s example. Official: Published by Blizzard in a source we have read.
Other modifiers (crit chance, target resistance) are not included: this compares how hard a crit hits, not how many crits you will land.
Talent calculator
To plan a build, use the Wowhead Forever talent calculator: it has the full Forever tree, data-mined from the beta client, and lets you share builds by link. Community: Published by the community or press; we have not read the official original.
Every build in Builds opens straight in that calculator, and also shows its trees here as in game, with the card of each talent when you hover it.
Upcoming tools
Not documented yet
- Why it is missing
- Our own planner needs Forever's final tree with confirmed values, and the beta numbers may still change.
- What we will do
- Once the tree is stable after launch we will look at a planner inside the guide, with each talent explained.