Players report the Icicle Rod hitting softer than the client files show
· ForeverDB
Two players' ForeverDB addons saw the Icicle Rod, a level 20 staff, deal 38 to 57 damage in game, below the 51 to 77 in the Forever client files. Blizzard hasn't announced a change.
Corrected 5 November 2026: we called the game's client the beta client. The beta ended on 23 October; since 4 November the client (build 1.60.1.70790) is the live game's.
Player reports, not confirmed by Blizzard. This is what two players' ForeverDB addons saw in the game, not the client's data and not a Blizzard post.
The Icicle Rod (item 2950) is a two-handed staff you can use from level 20. In the Forever client its weapon damage is listed as 51 to 77 with a 3.8 second swing. Two players' addons saw it deal less than that in game.
What players saw
On 9 October two players' ForeverDB addons recorded the Icicle Rod's damage as 38 to 57 in game, across two uploads, both on the same day. One of the two was logged in to an account. That's a lower top and bottom than the 51 to 77 the client files still list, a drop of about a quarter on both numbers.
This is a small sample: two players, one with an account, two uploads, all on one day. We're showing it because a sighting is still real data, but it isn't a confirmed change.
The client files haven't been updated to match, so the staff still reads 51 to 77 on its tooltip and on our item page. A difference like that, where the game hands out numbers the files don't carry, usually points to a server-side hotfix rather than a new build.
Speculation. Weapon damage is set on Blizzard's servers, so a change can go live without touching the client files, and the files can't show it either way. We don't know why it was lowered, or whether it was a deliberate nerf, a fix, or a value that will be reverted. Blizzard hasn't posted about it in any thread we track.
We'll update this page if the client files change to match, or if Blizzard says anything. More sightings like this are on our datamine and changes pages.