Stat Priorities
Not much has changed for frost mages in terms of stat priorities. You’ll always want to get as close to your shatter-crit which is 33%.
- Intellect
- Critical Strike (to 33.34%)
- Haste
- Versatility
- Mastery
- Critical Strike (after 33.34%)
Stat Outline
In this guide, we will cover all the best Mage DPS best in slot options for PvP in WoW Classic. The guide will help Mages understand what items they should be needing on in Dungeons, what quests to do for rewards, and what items Mages should be crafting to min-max their odds of winning PvP confrontations. When playing against a Restoration Druid, Ring of Frost is the best choice in this tier. Druids are difficult to get crowd control on as a Frost Mage, and Ring of Frost helps with this. Assistance from a teammate (such as a Rogue stunning the Druid) will make it easier. Against any other healer, Frigid Winds is the best choice in this tier.
Crit: Increases your chance to critically strike. As a frost mage you have Shatter, which makes you always critically strike on frozen targets when you have 33.34% crit.
Haste: decreases the cast time of your spells, also lowers global cooldown as well as the cooldown of Blizzard.
Versatility: gives a flat damage done increase and damage taken reduction.
Mastery: Mastery: Icicles – causes Frostbolt and Flurry to store an Icicle which deals damage determined by your mastery and spell power. It also increases Frozen Orb damage.
The best way to calculate stat priorities for your character is to 'sim' your character
Find out how to simTrolls are still the strongest with their racial haste increase buff Berserking. I could see this change later in the expansion once we get strong enough potency conduits where Icy Veins won’t line up with berserking (3-minute cooldown) due to having Icy Propulsion. But this is just me theory-crafting without having any tangible numbers. Race differences are ridiculously small, however, and there's almost no difference between most of them.
Enchants
With Shadowlands there are a few new enchants, and these are the best:
Enchant Weapon:Enchant Weapon – Lightless Force
Shadowcore Oil: Can be used on your weapon for a slight damage increase together with your weapon enchant.
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Enchant ring:Enchant Ring – Tenet of Critical Strike (until 33.34%), then;
Enchant ring:Enchant Ring – Tenet of Haste
Enchant Bracers:Enchant Bracers – Eternal Intellect
Enchant Chest:Enchant Chest – Eternal Stats
Crit Gem:Deadly Jewel Cluster (+16 crit) until crit capped (33.34%)
Haste Gem:Quick Jewel Cluster (+16 haste)
Consumables
Vantus Rune: Castle of Nathria (use on the boss you are progressing on)
Flask:Spectral Flask of Power
Potion:Potion of Spectral Intellect
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Food buff:Feast of Gluttonous Hedonism or;
Food buff:Spinefin Souffle and Fries
Welcome to this Frost Mage DPS guide written by Nova.
Strengths:
One of the top cleave classes (2 targets). Also great on AoE (3-8 targets).
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Great mobility, and double immunity 2x Ice Block to potentially cheese specific boss mechanics.
High uptime on big cooldowns such as Icy Veins, Frozen Orb and Rune of Power due to the covenant ability from Night Fae (it reduces your cooldown on all abilities by 12 seconds).
Weakness:
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Lacking behind on Single Target on some boss fights after recent Ice Lance nerf (Sludgefist for example).
Bad at dealing with spread target damage (adds far from each other where dot-classes like Shadow Priest might shine).
What has changed
Ability wise we are seeing Mirror Image being a baseline ability for all mages (now a defensive cooldown), together with a few other abilities like Arcane Explosion and Fire Blast. Playstyle wise we are going for an Ice Lance oriented spec. It is basically about getting as many Ice Lance procs as possible and hit that button once it glows. No more Glacial Spike.