Ice Barrier

For the pet battle ability, see [Ice Barrier].

Ice Barrier
Ice Barrier Row 1 mage talent 3% of base mana 25 sec cooldown Instant Shields you with ice, absorbing (24% 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
Other information
Improvements	[Accumulative Shielding], [Barrier Diffusion], [Diverted Energy], [Energized Barriers], [Imbued Warding], [Reactive Barrier]
Related buff
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 [Prismatic Barrier] instead, and Fire mages receive [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

• Hotfix (2024-09-24): Absorb amount is now decreased by 40% in PvP combat (was 25%).
  
• Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Absorb value reduced by 25% in PvP combat.
  
• Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Absorb increased to 24% of maximum health (was 22%).
  
• Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 class talent for Arcane (was a level 11 Arcane ability).
  
• Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Now learned at level 11 (was 26).
  
• 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).
  
• Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Now exclusive to Frost specialization and learned at level 26. The snare effect of the now removed [Frost Armor] has been folded into this ability.
  
• Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Now learned at level 54 (was 16).
  
• Hotfix (2016-08-24): The Dense Ice version of Ice Barrier can now be properly refreshed, even when the shield is undamaged.
  
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now learned at level 16 (was a level 30 talent). Now absorbs 202% more damage.
  
• Patch 5.1.0 (2012-11-27): The damage absorbed by Ice Barrier has been reduced by 25%.
  
• 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.
  
• 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%.
  
• Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): No longer has [Cold Snap] as a prerequisite. Moved to tier 5 (was tier 7).
  
• Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The mana cost on this spell has been reduced by approximately 15%.
  
• Patch 2.4.0 (2008-03-25): Using low ranks of this spell will now be penalized the same way healing spells are penalized.
  
• Patch 2.3.2 (2008-01-08): Now requires Cold Snap instead of [Ice Block].
  
• 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.
  
• Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): Ice Barrier Rank 6 was added.
  
• Patch 1.11.0 (2006-06-19): Ice Barrier received an overhaul. The spell was changed to stack with [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 [Mana Shield], thus saving mana when using both shields.
  
• Patch 0.9 (2004-08-17): Training costs added to ranks.
  

External links

• Wowhead
• WoWDB