World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Frost Mage Guide For Leveling and Mythic+

Frost Mager in WoW: Dragonflight has always been an excellent kiting DPS spec with a ton of Mythic+ viability by slowing and freezing mobs. Its spell rotation is quite simple to pick up, yet it remains a high utility class for any raid team. Doing World of Warcraft Mythic carries will be much easier to conduct once you understand the nuances of Frost Mage’s kit. Dragonflight has brought in some changes to Frost Mage, leaning more into its core spells. Frost Mage is a proc-reliant class that relies much on using your basic skills to fuel your burst damage skills. Pair that with their reliable crowd-control utility, Frost Mage brings a lot of value to any raid team. When it comes down to gearing, this guide will help you save up on WoW gold by discussing the optimal gear setup.

Leveling Guide

When starting out as a Frost Mage, a great single-target skill rotation for starters will be Icy Veins, Frostbolt, Flurry, and Ice Lance twice. Casting Icy Veins provides a boost to your spellcasting speed and will drastically affect your DPS. Maintaining high uptime for Icy Veins is important. The reason why Frostbolt is cast often is because it will help proc the Flurry skill. Flurry, when cast, places a debuff on an enemy that considers them frozen despite not freezing them. Finally, Ice Lance deals triple damage when hitting a frozen target and will be your biggest source of burst damage, especially when paired with the Shatter talent, which deals extra critical damage against frozen targets.

Mythic+ Talent Build and Rotations

When picking the optimal talent allocation for this spec, choose the following talents for the Mage tree:

• Ice Barrier
• Ice Block
• Overflowing Energy
• Incanter’s Flow
• Spellsteal
• Remove Curse
• Mirror Image
• Alter Time
• Shifting Power
• Cryo Freeze
• Quick Witted
• Master of Time
• Divert Energy
• Ice Nova
• Ice Floes
• Blast Wave
• Tome of Rhonin
• Tome of Antonidas
• Energized Barriers
• Frigid Winds
• Temporal Velocity
• Freezing Cold
• Time Manipulation
• Greater Invisibility
• Dragon’s Breath
• Ice Cold
• Temporal Warp
• Mass Barrier

Then, for your Frost spec, take the following:

• Frozen Orb
• Fingers of Frost
• Flurry
• Shatter
• Brain Freeze
• Everlasting Frost
• Winter’s Blessing
• Frostbite
• Piercing Cold
• Perpetual Winter
• Lonely Winter
• Ice Caller
• Bone Chilling
• Comet Storm
• Wintertide
• Flash Freeze
• Icy Veins
• Splintering Cold
• Glacial Assault
• Freezing Rain
• Thermal Void
• Splitting Ice
• Freezing Winds
• Hailstones
• Coldest Snap
• Glacial Ice

These talents give Frost Mage more utility through crowd control, cleaving burst damage, and self-sustain.

For your AoE rotation, start with Frozen Orb and Blizzard. Ice Caller makes it so that every time Blizzard deals damage, Frozen Orb’s cooldown gets reduced. Weave in Comet Storm, Glacial Spike, First Nova, Cone of Cold, and Shifting Power last if all other skills are on cooldown. This rotation serves to trigger the Shatter talent as frozen targets take more crit damage.

Frost Mage’s Best in Slot Gear

The Tier set to chase for Frost Mage is the Wayward Chronomancer set, where its set bonus for the Frost spec is a buff to the Glacial Spike skill, giving it Brain Freeze and increased damage when proccing the Shatter effect. Tier-set gear for Dragonflight can be found in Amirdrassil. The following bosses for this raid drop the appropriate gear for Mage:

• Wayward Chronomancer’s Chronocap: Mythic Tindral Sageswift
• Wayward Chronomancer’s Metronomes: Mythic Smolderon
• Wayward Chronomancer’s Patchwork: Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle
• Wayward Chronomancer’s Gloves: Mythic Igira the Cruel

The BiS for Frost Mage is Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle. This weapon launches webs that immobilize enemies, synergizing with the Frost spec’s talents of dealing bonus damage against crowd-controlled enemies. This weapon is dropped by Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle.  Other non-Tier set BiS gear can be found in this raid. These include the Ouroboreal Necklace from Mythic Volcoross, Urctos’s Hibernal Dial from Mythic Council of Dreams, Signet of the Last Elder from Mythic Igira the Cruel and Belor’relos, the Suncaller from Mythic Tindral Sageswift.

Best Enchants and Gems On A Budget

When slotting gems into your gear, use the Skillful Illimited Diamond for one gear piece and Keen Neltharite for all the rest.  For armor enchantments, start with the Incandescent Essense for the helmet slot. For rings, go for the Enchant Ring – Writ of Mastery. For the weapon, get Enchant Weapon – Earthen Writ. For the chest piece, take the Walking Stats enchant. Bracers should have the Devotion of Avoidance. Belts get the Shadowed Belt Clasp enchant. For cloaks, slot in Graceful Avoidance. Boots, Watcher’s Loam, and legwear should get the Vibrant Spellthread.