Ice Ward

In the Arcane Mage talent tree, Ice Ward sits in the Mage class talents, row 7 of 10. It is a single-point node. Its row opens once 8 points are spent in Class Talents.

Choice node

Ice Ward shares its node with Improved Frost Nova. A character takes one of the two.

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  Improved Frost Nova

  Frost Nova duration is increased by 2 sec.

Connected above

The tree draws a line into Ice Ward from Shimmer or Improved Blink and Improved Spellsteal.

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  Shimmer

  Teleports you forward, unless something is in the way. Unaffected by the global cooldown and castable while casting. Gain a shield that absorbs 3% of your maximum health for 15 sec after you Shimmer.

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  Improved Blink

  Shimmer's cooldown is reduced by 2 sec.

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  Improved Spellsteal

  Spellsteal repeats its effect after 4 sec, but it now has a cooldown of 4.1 sec.

Connected below

Ice Ward leads on to Charm of Aegwynn.

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  Charm of Aegwynn

  The critical strike damage of your spells is increased by 5%.

Same row

Also on this row: Captured Thoughts, Tome of Rhonin, Improved Warding, Tome of Antonidas, Incantation of Swiftness and Master of Escape.

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  Captured Thoughts
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  Tome of Rhonin

  Critical strike chance by 2%.

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  Improved Warding
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  Tome of Antonidas

  Haste increased by 2%.

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  Incantation of Swiftness2 ranks

  Greater Invisibility increases your movement speed by 20% for 6 sec.

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  Master of Escape

  Greater Invisibility's cooldown is reduced by 60 sec.