Accelerant, a WoW Forever Mage talent, in words
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AccelerantA Fire Mage talent in WoW Forever: row 1 of the Fire tree (level 10), 5 ranks, passive. Changed from Classic (renamed from Improved Fireball, was Fire row 1, column 2, now column 3). Its spot, arrow or text here is the server's 28 Oct hotfix over the client's files, read from the game's hotfix data and checked against Blizzard's notes or Wowhead's tooltips.
What it does Fire row 1
Accelerant5 ranks · passiveLevel 10.Rank 1: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.1 sec.Rank 2: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.2 sec.Rank 3: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.3 sec.Rank 4: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.4 sec.Rank 5: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.5 sec.Changed from Classic (renamed from Improved Fireball, was Fire row 1, column 2, now column 3). Classic rank 1: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball spell by 0.1 sec.
What changed from Classic
- Classic rank 1Reduces the casting time of your Fireball spell by 0.1 sec.
- WoW Forever rank 1Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.1 sec.
- Alsorenamed from Improved Fireball; was Fire row 1, column 2, now column 3.
Who takes it pick rates from this site's builds
- 51% of Mage buildsTaken in 51% of the 1,715 Mage builds with 41 or more points planned here, since the Oct 28 hotfixes to build 70630.
- 50% of Arcane buildsTaken in 50% of the 601 builds that lead in Arcane.
- 84% of Fire buildsTaken in 84% of the 507 builds that lead in Fire, its own tree.
- 25% of Frost buildsTaken in 25% of the 607 builds that lead in Frost.
- How it is countedEach build counts once, the way the calculator's pick-rate badges count. Recounted a few times a day, last on 2026-10-29.
Beta build history
- Hotfixes to build 1.60.1.70630, 2026-10-28Accelerant is the new name of Improved Fireball.
- Hotfixes to build 1.60.1.70630, 2026-10-28Ranks 1 to 5 text changed. Now: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball, Frostfire Bolt, and Arcane Wrath spells by 0.1 sec. Was: Reduces the casting time of your Fireball and Frostfire Bolt spells by 0.1 sec.
Around it in the Fire tree
- Same row (level 10)Incineration.
- Row below (level 15)Ignite, Flame Throwing, Impact.
Every Fire talent 17
- Incinerationrow 1
- Accelerantrow 1
- Igniterow 2
- Flame Throwingrow 2
- Impactrow 2
- Burning Soulrow 3
- Improved Flamestrikerow 3
- Pyroblastrow 3
- Improved Fire Blastrow 3
- Improved Scorchrow 4
- Improved Fire Wardrow 4
- Heating Uprow 4
- Master of Elementsrow 4
- Critical Massrow 5
- Blast Waverow 5
- Fire Powerrow 6
- Combustionrow 7
The other two trees
From the WoW Forever beta client, with the 28 Oct server hotfixes on the Mage trees as other readers logged them; checked in game with reader reports. Put points in Accelerant in the Mage calculator.