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For the pet battle ability, see Peticon-elemental Ability deathknight pillaroffrost [Ice Barrier].
Ice Barrier
Spell ice lament
  • Ice Barrier
  • Row 1 Frost mage talent
  • 3% of base mana
  • 25 sec cooldown
  • Instant
  • Shields you with ice, absorbing (22% of Total health) damage for 1 min.

    Melee attacks against you reduce the attacker's movement speed by 50%.
Properties
Class Mage
School Frost
Cooldown 25 seconds
Improvements Ability mage shattershield [Accumulative Shielding], Inv soulbarrier [Diverted Energy], Spell mage temporalshield [Energized Barriers]
Related buff
Spell ice lament
  • Magic
  • Ice Barrier
  • Absorbs X damage.

    Melee attackers slowed by 50%.
  • Duration: 1 minute

Ice Barrier is a mage class talent. It is only available to Frost mages, and is automatically learned.

Arcane mages receive Spell magearmor [Prismatic Barrier] instead, and Fire mages receive Ability mage moltenarmor [Blazing Barrier].

Notes and trivia[]

  • While Ice Barrier is active, the mage's spells cannot suffer from pushback.
  • Ice Barrier is a common Mage spell in Hearthstone. Its flavor text reads: "This is Rank 1. Rank 2 is Chocolate Milk Barrier."

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 class talent for Arcane (was a level 11 Arcane ability).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 11 (was 26).
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Ice Barrier's absorption value now scales from the Mage's maximum health rather than spell power. Now learned at level 26 (was 54).
  • Legion Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now exclusive to Frost specialization and learned at level 26. The snare effect of the now removed Spell frost frostarmor02 [Frost Armor] has been folded into this ability.
  • Legion Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 54 (was 16).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-08-24): The Dense Ice version of Ice Barrier can now be properly refreshed, even when the shield is undamaged.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 16 (was a level 30 talent). Now absorbs 202% more damage.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The damage absorbed by Ice Barrier has been reduced by 25%.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Now available to all specializations as a level 30 talent (was a tier 5 Frost talent). Cooldown reduced from 30 to 25 sec.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.1.0 (2011-04-26): Base damage value has been increased by approximately 120%. In addition, the benefit from spell power has been increased by approximately 8%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer has Spell frost wizardmark [Cold Snap] as a prerequisite. Moved to tier 5 (was tier 7).
  • Wrath-Logo-Small Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The mana cost on this spell has been reduced by approximately 15%.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Now requires Cold Snap instead of Spell frost frost [Ice Block].
  • Bc icon Patch 2.3.0 (2007-11-13): Ice Barrier will gain an additional benefit from frost spell damage gear, however the base amount of damage absorbed for ranks 5 and 6 has been lowered.
  • Bc icon Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Ice Barrier Rank 6 was added.
  • WoW Icon update Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Ice Barrier received an overhaul. The spell was changed to stack with Spell holy powerwordshield [Power Word: Shield] (which previously overwrote it), had its cooldown reduced from 2 minutes to 30 seconds, gained the benefit of frost spell damage, and was prioritized to absorb damage before Spell shadow detectlesserinvisibility [Mana Shield], thus saving mana when using both shields.
  • Test-inline Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Training costs added to ranks.

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