Frost Mage DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Season 4

In this section, you will find information and guidance for each boss individually in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible as a Frost Mage. These are not complete encounter guides but provide specific tips for any Frost Mage on each boss.

Sadly, there are not many Mage-specific tips in this raid until the late bosses. The vast majority of the early fights are straightforward single-target burns where we have little class or spec utility.

Single Target.

This is a fairly basic single-target fight. Blink and Alter Time are your friends for either running Dread Rifts out, or kiting Rays of Anguish through said Dread Rifts.

Single Target.

Another functionally single-target fight. There is the possibility of a stacked P1, especially in higher DPS groups, but our cleave is passive, so this fight is fought as a single-target encounter.

Single Target.

Single target fight with occasional adds that need to be killed quickly.

Time Warp second phase, to skip as many Unstable Essence casts as possible.

Sporadic Adds is likely the play for most groups. If you can push him and skip Phase 2, just go Single Target.

Not really anything that is Mage-specific on this fight.

Single Target.

Pop a defensive when targeted by Searing Slam, with Alter Time beforehand if available to get back to position. Do not try and stack Searing Slam on another Searing Slam, it will wipe the raid.

Single Target build. While there are adds, they are usually spread enough that you will only be hitting one target at a time, or two if you are lucky with spawns.

Primarily a single target fight with intermittent adds that should be slowed or knocked back from their destination. Blast Wave and Volatile Detonation should prove useful, assuming you can aim the adds at the boss.

Try and spread your slows across the ranged adds.

Watch the knockback timer; you do not want to lose a Ray of Frost cast due to it. Cast Ice Floes for safety if you feel the timer is too close.

Single Target.

You cannot drop Searing Heat stacks with Ice Block.

Utilize Alter Time and Blink to negate the knockback on Overpowering Stomp. Alter Time is especially good here as you will instantly heal back the damage taken.

Blazing Breath is a 100-yard cone, even if the animation does not match it. Do not try and outrange it.

Watch the knockback timer; you do not want to lose a Ray of Frost cast due to it. Cast Ice Floes for safety if you feel the timer is too close.

Single Target. P2 ends up being mostly cleave, which is handled by that build. P3 adds are best left to others, but try and drop Frozen Orb and Comet Storm into them while they are stacked on the boss.

Alter Time can be used to negate the knockback on Rushing Darkness entirely without having to reposition to the wall.

Be careful to not have Glacial Spike going out as Corruption is finishing its cast, as you will very likely kill someone on the cleave.

Umbral Annihilation is the dangerous cast, try and have some form of cooldown up for it going off on the later casts. Ice Barrier the first, combo Barrier with Mirror Image the next, Greater Invisibility the third, Ice Cold the fourth. Ice Cold is a suitable cooldown on an earlier cast if you are low health, as to heal you up as well as protect you. This is also an ideal location to pop Mass Barrier.

Ebon Destruction leaves a fairly deadly DoT, and you should pop some form of cooldown for it if you have them available, as nothing else is particularly dangerous in P3.

Sporadic Adds build.

For P2 and 3, hold onto Comet Storm for add spawns to combo with Coldest Snap. They spawn roughly every 40 seconds, so it will not be a huge loss.

Ice Cold the two Glittering Surge casts.

Blinking and Alter Timeing back to get into either ability to drop Oppressing Howl is a good idea, as it lets you heal the actual ability impact damage back.

Embrace of Nothingness can be soloed without Ice Block, but it will require stacking Ice Cold, Greater Invisibility, and Mirror Image all at once to survive. It is not advised, but some strategies or emergencies will require you to sacrifice yourself otherwise, so it is good to be aware of this.