Frost Mage Guide:
Stat Priority:
- DISCLAIMER:
I am not claiming that this is or will be the best spec. I'm just providing a little more in depth guide for those who choose to raid as frost.
- Hit (till capped) > SP > Haste > Crit
- Fresh 80's may or may not value crit just SLIGHTLY more than haste
- Hit Ratings at 80:
- Untalented - 17% (445.94 rating)
- With Precision - 14% (367.25 rating)
- With Precision and Heroic Presence - 13% (341.02 rating)
- With Precision and Misery or Improved Faerie Fire - 11% (288.55)
- With Precision, Heroic Presence and Misery or Improved Faerie Fire - 10% (262.32 rating)
Specs:
- Post 3.3.3:
- 19/0/52 - your average frost spec
- 18/0/52(+1) - this build provides a shorter cooldown on Cold Snap, allowing more uses on longer fights with one point left over for Ice Barrier or Enduring Winter whether you need the survivability or your raid needs another replenishment
Glyphs:
- Post 3.3.3:
- Glyph of Molten Armor
- Glyph of Frostfire - this can replace Glyph of Molten Armor at higher levels of crit
Gems, Enchants and Profession Bonuses:
- Gems:
- Meta - Chaotic Skyflare Diamond
- Red (or prismatic sockets) - Runed Cardinal Ruby (self explanitory)
- Blue - Purified Dreadstone if the socket bonus is +7 SP or higher or if you need the meta requirements, otherwise use Runed Cardinal Ruby
- Yellow - Reckless Ametrine if the socket bonus is +5 SP or higher, otherwise use Runed Cardinal Ruby
- Enchants:
- Head - Arcanum of Burning Mysteries
- Shoulder - Greater Inscription of the Storm
- Back - Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed
- Chest - Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats
- Wrist - Enchant Bracers - Superior Spellpower
- Hands - Enchant Gloves - Exceptional Spellpower
- Belt - Eternal Belt Buckle
- Legs - Brilliant Spellthread
- Feet - Enchant Boots - Icewalker
- 1h Weapon - Enchant Weapon - Black Magic
- Staff - Enchant Staff - Greater Spellpower
- Other Optional Enchants:
- Back - Enchant Cloak - Wisdom
- Hands - Enchant Gloves - Precision
- Feet - Enchant Boots - Tuskarr's Vitality
- 1h Weapon - Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spellpower or Enchant Weapon - Accuracy
- Profession Bonuses:*
- Tailoring - Lightweave Embroidery (+51 Spellpower equivalent assuming 1/4 uptime)
- Jewelcrafting - Runed Dragon's Eye (+48 Spellpower)
- Alchemy - Mixology (+47 Spellpower)
- Blacksmithing - Socket Bracer and Socket Gloves (+46 Spellpower)
- Enchanting - Enchant Ring - Greater Spellpowerx2 (+46 Spellpower)
- Inscription - Master's Inscription of the Storm (+46 Spellpower)
- Leatherworking - Fur Lining - Spell Power (+46 Spellpower)
- Engineering - Springy Arachnoweave, Hyperspeed Accelerators and Nitro Boosts (+44 Spellpower equivalent)
- Skinning - Master of Anatomy (+20 Spellpower equivalent)
- Mining - Toughness (no direct effect on DPS... only increases survivability)
- Herbalism - Lifeblood (again, no direct effect on DPS)
Spell Priority:
- Post 3.3.3:
Deep Freeze > Frostbolt > Frostfire Bolt > Ice Lance
- On FoF proc, continue casting Frostbolt (using 1st charge) followed by Deep Freeze (using 2nd charge) at the very end of the Frostbolt cast. NEVER STOP CASTING UNLESS MOVEMENT IS REQUIRED.
- If movement is required, use Ice Lance unless either Deep Freeze or Brain Freeze proc is available
- If Deep Freeze is on CD during FoF, use both charges on Frostbolt or if Brain Freeze is up, use one charge on Frostfire Bolt
- On Brain Freeze Proc, continue casting Frostbolt followed by instant Frostfire Bolt at the very end of the Frostbolt cast
Some useful macros:
Cooldown macro - useful at the beginning of a fight and on longer fights it can be used again towards the end on those crucial "burn" moments... also, its best to use it again after the Cold Snap macro but only if there is about 2 mins left on the CD of Mirror image (this will keep the 2 CDs closer together later in a fight)#showtooltipIce Block macro - this can be used in dire situations, to avoid Festergut's puke debuff, etc. click once to Ice Block, click again to remove it
/cast Icy Veins
/cast <racial> <---- insert Berserking if you are a troll for example
/use 13
/cast Mirror Image
/petattack <---- this will force both your elemental and your mirror images to start casting
#showtooltipInvisibility macro - this is extremely useful to avoid putricides tear gas
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block
#showtooltipCold Snap macro - use this after you use Deep Freeze and Icy Veins
/cancelaura Invisibility
/cast Invisibility
#showtooltipFrost/Waterbolt macro - forces your elemental to attack your current target (do not use this if your pet is supposed to be on Kinetic Bomb duty during Blood Princes)
/cast Cold Snap
/cast Frostbolt
#showtooltip
/cast Frostbolt
/use Waterbolt
Questions? Comments? Concerns?
To-Do List:
- Please, feel free to reply to this post with anything i may have missed.
- No trolling or bashing other posters (myself included).
- Add BiS list for Frost. (suggestions welcome)
- Hope that this becomes a sticky
*Spellpower equivalents taken from http://elitistjerks.com/f75/t87978-raiding_frost_3_3_a/