- For the pet battle ability, see
[Ice Lance].
| Ice Lance | |
|---|---|
| |
| Properties | |
| Class | Mage |
| School | Frost |
| Cooldown | None/Global Cooldown |
Ice Lance is a Frost mage talent. It deals light damage to a target, and its damage is tripled against frozen targets.
When cast, Ice Lance also causes all stored Icicles from 
[Mastery: Icicles] to begin launching at the target. Taking 
[Glacial Spike] removes this effect.
Improvements
- Class talents
- Frost talents
[Fingers of Frost]
[Lonely Winter]
[Wintertide]
[Splitting Ice]- [Chain Reaction]
[Hailstones]
[Thermal Void]
Trivia
- Ice Lance is...
- A common mage ability in the Trading Card Game. Its flavor text reads: "'It's hard to nail a moving target. An immobile one, though...now that's a different story.' —Velindra Sepulchre"
- A common mage spell in Hearthstone. Its flavor text reads: "The trick is not to break the lance. Otherwise, you have 'Ice Pieces.' Ice Pieces aren't as effective."
- One of Jaina's talents in Heroes of the Storm.
Patch changes
Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
- Damage increased by 9%.
- Damage is increased by 15% in PvP combat (was 34%).
- Patch 10.1.0 (2023-05-02): Damage increased by 34% in PvP combat (was 20%).
- Hotfix (2022-12-19): Damage increased by 12%.
- Hotfix (2022-12-05): Damage is now increased by 20% in PvP combat.
- Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): No longer deals 15% increased damage in PvP combat.
- Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 1 Frost talent (was a level 10 Frost ability).
Patch 9.2.5a (2022-08-02): Damage is now increased by 15% in PvP combat. - Hotfix (2020-11-09): Damage reduced by 10%.
Patch 8.3.0 (2020-01-14): Damage increased by 20%. 
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Ice Lance missile speed increased by 30%. - Hotfix (2017-01-23): Increased the damage of Ice Lance by 4%.
- Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Damage increased by 34%.
- Patch 7.1.0 (2016-10-25): Damage increased by 5%. Now learned at level 10 (was 5).
- Hotfix (2016-09-23): Damage increased by 13%.
- Hotfix (2016-08-26): Now deals 20% additional damage in PvP.
- Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Damage increased by 52%. Now deals 200% more damage to frozen targets, up from 100%. Now learned at level 5 (was 22). No longer replaces
[Fire Blast]. 
Hotfix (2014-10-17): Damage has been increased by 20%. - Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14):
- Now replaces Fire Blast and is now only available to Frost mages.
- Base damage has been increased by 100%, but its damage multiplier against frozen targets has been reduced by 50%.
Hotfix (2013-09-23): Ice Lance's damage has been increased by 20%. - Patch 5.4.0 (2013-09-10): Damage has been increased by 43%.
- Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Damage multiplier against frozen increased from 2 to 4. Now learned at level 22 (ws 28).
Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Now trainable at level 28 (was 66). 
Patch 3.3.0 (2009-12-08): The tooltip on this ability will now update properly from all talents which increase its damage by a percentage. - Patch 3.2.0 (2009-08-04): The mana cost on this spell has been reduced by approximately 15%.
Patch 2.1.0 (2007-05-22): A data error was fixed that was causing Ice Lance to cause more threat than intended. - Patch 2.0.3 (2007-01-09): Added.
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