Frost Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips - Dragonflight 10.2.7 (2024)

Last updated on May 07, 2024 at 11:20by Kuni113 comments

Frost Mage is highly valued in Mythic+. It is one of the better 2-targetcleave specs and has amazing burst AoE damage. In terms of utility, it brings Arcane Intellect for your casters and healers, Remove Curse and Spellsteal as dispels, a powerful knockback,an AoE disorient, mass crowd control both hard and soft, a party-wide 22%health barrier, and even the potentialto let the group skip trash packs. It also has the best AoE slows in thegame.

The single target rotations do not change in Mythic+content, compared to raid content. For more information about the Frost MageDPS rotation, refer back to the Rotation page, found here:

The main AoE rotation for Frost is fairly simple. Firstly, youhave your Frozen Orb and Blizzard machine. Ice Callerreduces the cooldown of Frozen Orb for each mob that Blizzard damages on eachdamage wave. Given that Frozen Orb is one of your most powerful spells for theentire run, this is extremely important. On the flip side, having enoughtargets to reset Frozen Orb reliably means that you should have very close to100% uptime on Freezing Rain, which will improve your Blizzard damageand make it instant. This is the primary part of Frost's AoE.

The next part is related to Coldest Snap. Functionally you want towalk up to a pack, throw Frozen Orb, Blizzard, Comet Storm, Cone of Cold, Frozen Orb,Comet Storm, Blizzard, and then Shifting Power. Theidea is that Cone of Cold resets Comet Storm and Frozen Orb both and applies Winter's Chill to the entire pack hit. The delay on Comet Storm meansthat both Comet Storm sets should land within Winter's Chill and gain thebenefit of Shatter.

Between these, you would ideally want to cast Glacial Spike betweenall of this and land Ice Nova or Frost Nova directly aftercasting it to let it benefit from Shatter and Subzero iftalented into it.

Frost Mage provides support for the party through excellent cleave damage,raid buffs, and other additional effects such as mob management and immunitycheesing of mechanics.

• Ice Block can be used to soak mechanics that would otherwiseinconvenience or kill other party members.
• Remove Curse allows you to remove curses, a fairly rare powerlimited to Druids and Restoration Shaman.
• Spellsteal grants you an offensive magic dispel, another fairlyrare power.
• Arcane Intellect grants your party 5% Intellect, a sizablethroughput benefit to your casters and healer.
• Time Warp gives your group that extra DPS push.
• With Frigid Winds, you have access to the best AoE slow in thegame through Cone of Cold, and one of the top single target slowsattached to your primary spell.
• Polymorph, Frost Nova, Ring of Frost,and Freeze all give you varying types of crowd control.
• Blast Wave can knock mobs out of Sanguine or be used as an AoEpseudo-interrupt.
• Dragon's Breath can similarly be used as an AoEpseudo-interrupt.
• Alter Time, as elsewhere in the game, has the potential to cheesemultiple positional mechanics, or take pressure off your healers.
• Mass Barrier applies your Ice Barrier to the entire group.
• Mass Invisibility lets you take the place of a Rogue and grantyour group a trash skip.

As stated on the Talent page, almost none of the class tree is set in stone,and you can change talents around as you see fit and depending on what yourgroup needs.

This talent build is a generalist build. If you do not need the trash skiptalents, or Remove Curse, or even Spellsteal, feel free tomove things around and grab other defensive points you may like.

In theory Ice Ward is a slight DPS gain for more Shatters,but you would lose either Greater Invisibility, Dragon's Breath,or Mass Barrier/ Mass Invisibility. If you feel safe in droppingthe defensive, AoE stop, or group utility, you could pick it up. Freezing Cold is a slightly better pick, as it lets a chunk of your Coldest Snap burst benefit from Shatter.

Snowstorm is a great talent in theory but has practical issues inmost groups. The buff is timed, despite not showing a timer. Thismakes it impossible to take a partial stack from before a boss to thetrash pack after the boss. Adding in that most groups are conservative in howmuch they pull, the stacking is likely not maximized per tick, making itfall behind even further. These must be addressed before Snowstorm is agood pick unless you are in a group you know will maximize large pulls.

Energized Barriers, like in the raid, is incredibly useful inremoving certain debuffs. It should be noted that this does not apply toteammates with Mass Barrier, but it will trigger on yourself again.

Energized Barriers can snap Entangling without moving.

Incorporeal can be Polymorphed, but not Mass Polymorphed. Since Polymorph has no cooldown, you can re-target ifa teammate overlaps on the same target.

Afflicted is countered by Remove Curse.

For an opinion list of how Frost fares against other DPS specs in Mythic+,please see our Tier List page: