Frost Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Dragonflight 10.2.6

It is challenging to define a best-in-slot list for Frost, as it heavily depends on your progression level and gear. You cannot simply use the lower-tier equipment of any given best-in slot list, as stat weights will then shift, and you will likely be missing certain breakpoints.

Feel free to check below for a maxed-out Mythic best in-slot list, but be warned that unless you have access to all of those pieces, this is not the best you can get for your character right now. Simulation is always needed to be sure what is actually good for you at your current gear level. The below charts are simply for those who wish for a checklist to go for, like someone who is finishing the tier on farm or someone gearing up a new alt quickly using dungeon spam.

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BiS Gear for Frost Mage

Overall BiS List Mythic+ Gear BiS List Raid Gear BiS List

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BiS List for Frost Mage

This list contains the highest DPS setup from most sources for Frost Mage. This is simply the T31 gear profile used on the SimulationCraft website. This is the end goal for Mythic raiders, as a great deal of the list comes from the last two bosses on Mythic.

Your own personal goal for gear will be slightly different depending on your progression level, as this assumes access to absolutely everything.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle (489)	Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil
Helm	Wayward Chronomancer's Chronocap (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassil
Neck	Ouroboreal Necklet (489)	Mythic Volcoross in Amirdrassil
Shoulder	Wayward Chronomancer's Metronomes (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Smolderon in Amirdrassil
Cloak	Vibrant Wildercloth Shawl (486)	Crafted by Tailoring. Embellished with Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch
Chest	Wayward Chronomancer's Patchwork (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil
Bracers	Vibrant Wildercloth Wristwraps (486)	Crafted by Tailoring. Embellished with Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch
Gloves	Wayward Chronomancer's Gloves (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil
Belt	Urctos's Hibernal Dial (489)	Mythic Council of Dreams in Amirdrassil
Legs	Bloodstained Sous Chef Pants (489)	Great Vault
Boots	Devilsaur Worshiper's Sandals (489)	Great Vault
Ring #1	Arch-Druid's Tainted Seal (489)	Great Vault
Ring #2	Signet of the Last Elder (489)	Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil
Trinket #1	Balefire Branch (489)	Great Vault
Trinket #2	Belor'relos, the Suncaller (489)	Mythic Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassil

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Mythic+ Gear BiS List for Frost Mage

This list contains the highest DPS setup, with farmable gear from Mythic+ Dungeons. This is a great place to start on a relatively new character, as you can infinitely grind out these items from Mythic+.

Please note that this list is only technically valid for 483 item level. It should be close enough for lower item levels to be irrelevant, however. Additionally, there are many many sidegrade options that work out to be functionally identical. Please sim your character to be sure, but this is posted as a sort of checklist for people farming out a new character quickly.

Also note that this does not include crafted gear and is intended as a sort of "this is the best that I can get from a pure drop standpoint" rather than any actual end-game profile to aim at.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Iridal, the Earth's Master (483)	Dawn of the Infinite: Galakrond's Fall
Helm	Wayward Chronomancer's Chronocap (483)	Revival Catalyst any 483 iLvl Helm
Neck	Chain of the Green Flight (483)	Darkheart Thicket
Shoulder	Wayward Chronomancer's Metronomes (483)	Revival Catalyst any 483 iLvl Shoulders
Cloak	Drape of the Loyal Vassal (483)	Atal'Dazar
Chest	Wayward Chronomancer's Patchwork (483)	Revival Catalyst any 483 iLvl Chest
Bracers	Bracers of Swirling Light (483)	The Everbloom
Gloves	Wayward Chronomancer's Gloves (483)	Revival Catalyst any 483 iLvl Gloves
Belt	Poisonroot Belt (483)	Darkheart Thicket
Legs	Bloodstained Sous Chef Pants (483)	Waycrest Manor
Boots	Devilsaur Worshiper's Sandals (483)	Atal'Dazar
Ring #1	Arch-Druid's Tainted Seal (483)	Darkheart Thicket
Ring #2	Band of Twisted Bark (483)	Darkheart Thicket
Trinket #1	Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows (483)	Dawn of the Infinite: Murozond's Rise
Trinket #2	Balefire Branch (483)	Waycrest Manor

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Raid Gear BiS List for Frost Mage

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Amirdrassil Raid.

This list is mostly useful for informing your organized guild of what loot is optimal for you, for loot distribution purposes, or if you just really hate Mythic+. Note that this does not include crafted gear and is intended as a sort of "this is the best that I can get from a pure drop standpoint" rather than any actual end-game profile to aim at.

Slot	Item	Source/Note
Weapon	Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle (489)	Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil
Helm	Wayward Chronomancer's Chronocap (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassil
Neck	Ouroboreal Necklet (489)	Mythic Volcoross in Amirdrassil
Shoulder	Wayward Chronomancer's Metronomes (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Smolderon in Amirdrassil
Cloak	Mantle of Blazing Sacrifice (489)	Mythic Smolderon in Amirdrassil
Chest	Wayward Chronomancer's Patchwork (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil
Bracers	Fading Flame Wristbands (489)	Mythic Smolderon in Amirdrassil
Gloves	Wayward Chronomancer's Gloves (489)	Revival Catalyst, or Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil
Belt	Urctos's Hibernal Dial (489)	Mythic Council of Dreams in Amirdrassil
Legs	Elder's Volcanic Wrap (489)	Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil
Boots	Lifewoven Slippers (489)	Mythic Nymue, Weaver of the Cycle in Amirdrassil
Ring #1	Band of Burning Thorns (489)	Mythic Larodar, Keeper of the Flame in Amirdrassil
Ring #2	Signet of the Last Elder (489)	Mythic Igira the Cruel in Amirdrassil
Trinket #1	Belor'relos, the Suncaller (489)	Mythic Tindral Sageswift in Amirdrassil
Trinket #2	Pip's Emerald Friendship Badge (489)	Mythic Council of Dreams in Amirdrassil

Dragonflight Season 3 refines the upgrade system from Season 2, moving Crests to a currency rather than an item in your bag. This system can be used to upgrade gear up to Item Level 489, which is end-Mythic Raid Item Level. They can also upgrade Crafted Gear up to iLvl 486.

For more information on the new Gear Upgrades system, check out our dedicated page for it below.

The easiest way, and also the method we suggest, to compare multiple items is to use Raidbots' Top Gear. Here, you can input an export from the Simcraft AddOn, select the items to compare, and it will find out which of the items are best.

As per usual, a best-in-slot list is a bit of a meaningless endeavor on Frost, as it changes depending on what gear you have access to. In almost all cases, item level upgrade is worth taking unless you replace a piece of jewelry with a huge amount of Mastery with a piece that does not (and even then, there are exceptions to this). A simulation will be needed to check those. In many cases, it will be worth doing just because the overall total of stats on the higher item level piece makes up the loss in "optimal" stats.

Most raid trinkets are in the same rough ballpark in terms of power. Belor'relos, the Suncaller is absurdly strong and should be taken whenever you can get it. The downside to this trinket is that you will have to play fairly close to your kill targets, as it only does an AoE 12 yards around you. That said, it is valued about twice as high as the next trinket from the Raid.

Augury of the Primal Flame is in a bit of a weird spot in that it is a good trinket, but we just have too much Crit if you are using Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage. If you are using Phial of Tepid Versatility or any of the others, this trinket will generally perform fairly well. Remember to override Raidbots' default phial usage if you wish to sim this trinket.

Ashes of the Embersoul is valued about half of the other raid trinkets and should be avoided.

Initial simulation is showing that Dreambinder, Loom of the Great Cycle's on use is worth 2 or so upgrade levels. This makes the Heroic version worth taking over a crafted staff at max rank, and the Mythic version hard-best-in-slot.

Dungeon trinkets are pretty good this season. Balefire Branch is about on par with Belor'relos, the Suncaller in terms of relative power.

Mirror of Fractured Tomorrows is great if you can find it, although slightly weaker than Balefire Branch and Belor'relos, the Suncaller.

Ideally, you skip the legs piece and pick up the other four slots.

As noted on the Rotation page, the 2-piece set bonus does change our rotation ever so slightly on 2 targets, and heavily incentivizes freezing anything you can hit with a Glacial Spike.

While you can craft gear for any slot up to item level 486, there are certain pieces with extra powers or the ability to add powers via extra items during the crafting process. You may have two of these "Embellished" pieces equipped at once. The idea is to craft two items with Shadowflame-Tempered Armor Patch, usually on the wrists and cloak (or belt/boots if you are intending to use the Engineering wrists).

In addition, it is an extremely good idea to have one more crafted piece to support taking Alchemical Flavor Pocket, as that will drastically prolong the life of your guild's food stocks. This does not count towards your Embellished count. This can be obtained by either the Iskaaran Community Feast weekly quest, or bought from the Auction House.

As a bonus, Engineering can craft bracers for everyone that can slot in a tinker that does not count towards your two Embellished limit. While most are of questionable value, Tinker: Arclight Vital Correctors allows you to have a battle resurrection available as a class that traditionally does not have it. This can be useful with our Invisibility, as we can provide wipe recovery.