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Frost Mage

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  • 60 players
  • Last Updated: 2 days ago

This page is automatically generated by looking up the top 50 Frost Mage on the Blitz leaderboard. The data on this page is updated every 24 hours in order for the data to be as relevant as possible.

This page only shows what the best players in the world are using. This might not apply to every skill bracket in Mythic+. Use this page as the starting point of your journey, and don’t be afraid to stray away from what is presented on this page!

Players

Capstone

Capstone

<We Shouldnt Be Here>Mal'Ganis (us)

Talents (class)

Time Walk
Supernova
Shimmer
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (spec)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Splintering Ray
Wintertide
Lonely Winter

Talents (hero)

Shifting Shards
Slippery Slinging
Reactive Barrier

Talents (pvp)

Ice Wall
Snowdrift
Improved Mass Invisibility
Lammbock

Lammbock

<Superior>Thrall (eu)

Talents (class)

Time Walk
Dragon's Breath
Improved Blink
Ice Nova
Ring of Frost
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (spec)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Frigid Focus
Wintertide
Summon Water Elemental

Talents (hero)

Attuned Familiar
Slippery Slinging
Reactive Barrier

Talents (pvp)

Snowdrift
Improved Mass Invisibility
Overpowered Barrier
Pepsibottle

Pepsibottle

<Higga Neroes>Argent Dawn (eu)

Talents (class)

Temporal Realignment
Dragon's Breath
Shimmer
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (spec)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Splintering Ray
Wintertide
Lonely Winter

Talents (hero)

Shifting Shards
Look Again
Reactive Barrier

Talents (pvp)

Snowdrift
Improved Mass Invisibility
Overpowered Barrier

Stat Priority

Values are relative to the highest stat. The stat priority for a Frost Mage is
Haste > Versatility > Mastery > Critical Strike

Best Races

The best race for a Frost Mage for the Alliance is Night Elf and for the Horde is Undead

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

52% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Galactic Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 134 primary stat for 20 sec.

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

12% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

Galactic Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Galactic Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Use: Increases primary stat by 159 for 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

12% of the best players use this combination
Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Galactic Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 176 primary stat for 20 sec.

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Galactic Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

Best Sockets

Values are based on the total amount of sockets of all players. The most popular socket for a Frost Mage is Flawless Quick Lapis
Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

40%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

16%

+23 Primary Stat and opponent's failed interrupt attempts grant Precognition

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

12%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Best Embellishments

Embellishments are specific abilities that can be added onto a piece of gear or weapons to add an equip bonus. The most popular embellishment for a Frost Mage is Arcanoweave Lining on a Chest item
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

88%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to draw in a mana wyrm that will empower you and an ally with Arcanoweave Insight, increasing your Intellect by 44 and your ally's Primary Stat by 11.

  • Chest32%
  • Waist25%
  • Wrist17%
  • Feet13%
  • Back11%
  • Shoulders2%
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

55%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 1,349 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Feet36%
  • Wrist27%
  • Waist18%
  • Chest12%
  • Back6%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

20%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,165 Arcane damage every second for 4 sec. Each unique gem color you have socketed empowers the Iris, causing it to deal 1% additional damage per.

  • Ring 242%
  • Neck33%
  • Ring 125%

Best Enchants

Percentages are calculated in relation to 50 players. If an enchant has a value of more than 100%, it means the enchant is found more than 50 times. This usually happens when the same enchant is applied to both rings.
Back icon

Back

Flexweave Underlay

2%

Goblin Glider

2%
Chest icon

Chest

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

72%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

7%

Enchant Chest - Mark of the Magister

Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

60%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity

12%

Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

78%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

7%

+32 Intellect & +70 Stamina

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

83%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Enchant Weapon - Worldsoul Tenacity

3%

Enchant Weapon - Worldsoul Tenacity

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

65%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Tenacity

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

33%

Enchant Ring - Silvermoon's Alacrity

Talents

The new talent system is not as straight-forward as the talent systems from previous expansions. Many talents are situational, and choosing your talents should be done based on the content you are doing. This heat map will show what talents are must-picks, which ones are situational, and which ones are rarely chosen.

Colors

The colors indicate the popularity of the talent. The numbers below indicate the percentage of the top 50 players that have chosen this talent.

  • 90% - 100% (best)
  • 50% - 89% (good)
  • 20% - 49% (situational)
  • 0% - 19% (unpopular)

Talent Tree

Talent Tree Background
Ice Barrier
98.3%
Alter Time
98.3%
Ice Block
98.3%
Time Walk
96.7%
Master of Time
93.3%
2 / 2
Winter's Protection
93.3%
2 / 2
Frost Conditioning
40%
Arcane Warding
98.3%
2 / 2
Inspired Intellect
98.3%
Mirror Image
25%
Spellsteal
95%
Quick Witted
96.7%
Dragon's Breath
95%
Remove Curse
96.7%
Improved Conjuration
1.7%
2 / 2
Improved Spellsteal
5%
Shimmer
98.3%
Improved Counterspell
86.7%
Overflowing Energy
83.3%
Improved Remove Curse
0%
Greater Invisibility
98.3%
Ice Ward
45%
Captured Thoughts
21.7%
Tome of Rhonin
95%
Tome of Antonidas
98.3%
Incantation of Swiftness
25%
2 / 2
Master of Escape
95%
Charm of Aegwynn
98.3%
Brainstorm
91.7%
Flow of Time
98.3%
Mana Confluence
1.7%
Charm of Medivh
98.3%
Permafrost Bauble
70%
Ice Nova
73.3%
Time Manipulation
90%
Ring of Frost
71.7%
Energized Barriers
93.3%
Mass Invisibility
75%
Barrier Diffusion
95%
Ice Cold
21.7%
Spatial Manipulation
98.3%
Improved Ice Barrier
95%

Spellslinger

Hero class image
Splinterstorm
100%
Spellfrost Teachings
100%
Controlled Instincts
100%
Signature Spell
100%
Archmage's Wrath
100%
Slippery Slinging
100%
Reactive Barrier
100%
Splintering Orbs
100%
Augury Abounds
100%
Force of Will
100%
Splintering Sorcery
100%
Polished Focus
100%
Infused Splinters
100%
Shifting Shards
100%
Ice Lance
98.3%
Blizzard
98.3%
Fingers of Frost
98.3%
Frostbite
98.3%
Icicles
98.3%
Flurry
98.3%
Glacial Bulwark
98.3%
Frozen Orb
98.3%
Brain Freeze
98.3%
Piercing Cold
56.7%
Ray of Frost
98.3%
Everlasting Frost
96.7%
Permafrost Lances
93.3%
Frozen Touch
31.7%
Splitting Ice
81.7%
Flash Freeze
68.3%
Frigid Focus
98.3%
Winter's Blessing
98.3%
Freezing Rain
83.3%
Cone of Frost
0%
Fractured Frost
88.3%
Improved Shatter
98.3%
Deep Shatter
36.7%
Wintertide
96.7%
Glacial Attunement
98.3%
2 / 2
Heart of Ice
93.3%
Rimecaster
68.3%
2 / 2
Freezing Winds
0%
Improved Flurry
93.3%
Glacial Assault
31.7%
Crystalline Refraction
81.7%
Summon Water Elemental
91.7%
Glacial Chill
10%
Hailstones
8.3%
Thermal Void
93.3%
Glaciate
95%
Comet Storm
8.3%
Hand of Frost
295%

Best PvP Talents

Improved Mass Invisibility

Improved Mass Invisibility

77%

The cooldown of Mass Invisibility is reduced by 4 min and can affect allies in combat.

Snowdrift

Snowdrift

75%

Summon a strong Blizzard that surrounds you for 6 sec that slows enemies by 70% and deals 77 Frost damage every 1 sec. Enemies that are caught in Snowdrift for 2 sec consecutively become Frozen in ice, stunned for 4 sec.

Ice Wall

Ice Wall

75%

Conjures an Ice Wall 30 yards long that obstructs line of sight. The wall has 30% of your maximum health and lasts up to 15 sec.

Overpowered Barrier

Overpowered Barrier

25%

Your barriers absorb 100% more damage and have an additional effect, but last 4 sec. Prismatic Barrier If the barrier is fully absorbed, your next Blink or Shimmer within 15 sec grants Invisibility and immunity to damage for 3 sec. The damage reduction is lost if Invisibility ends.

Master Shepherd

Master Shepherd

22%

While an enemy player is affected by your Polymorph or Mass Polymorph, your movement speed is increased by 25% and your Versatility is increased by 12%. Additionally, Polymorph and Mass Polymorph no longer heal enemies.

Concentrated Coolness

Concentrated Coolness

13%

Frozen Orb's damage is increased by 10% and is now castable at a location with a 40 yard range but no longer moves.

Icy Feet

Icy Feet

3%

When your Frost Nova or Water Elemental's Freeze is dispelled or removed, become immune to snares for 3 sec. This effect can only occur once every 10 sec.

Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb

2%

Places a Frost Bomb on the target. After 5 sec, the bomb explodes, dealing 3,524 Frost damage to the target and 1,778 Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards. All affected targets are slowed by 50% for 8 sec. If Frost Bomb is dispelled before it explodes, gain a charge of Brain Freeze.

Ethereal Blink

Ethereal Blink

2%

Blink and Shimmer apply Slow at 100% effectiveness to all enemies you Blink through. For each enemy you Blink through, the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 1 sec, up to 5 sec.

Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire

2%

Summons a Ring of Fire for 8 sec at the target location. Enemies entering the ring are disoriented and burn for 3% of their total health over 3 sec.