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.
Upcoming tools
Not documented yet
- Why it is missing
- A useful talent calculator needs Forever's full tree with values, and Blizzard has only published the changes.
- What we will do
- Once the tree is stable after launch we will add a planner with shareable build links.