Frost Mage DPS Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible Raid Guide — Dragonflight 10.2.7
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Frost Mage for each boss of the following raid: Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.7.
Introduction
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.
Frost Mage Talents in Aberrus, the Shadowed Crucible
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.
Dragonflight Raid Talent Builds for Frost Mage
Single Target and Cleave
Our default build, used on the majority of fights.
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Sustained AoE
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Kazzara, the Hellforged
Talents/Build
Single Target.
Tips
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.
The Amalgamation Chamber
Talents/Build
Single Target.
Tips
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.
The Forgotten Experiments
Talents/Build
Single Target.
Tips
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.
Assault of the Zaqali
Talents/Build
AoE is likely the play for most groups. If you can push him and skip Phase 2, just go Single Target.
Tips
Not really anything that is Mage-specific on this fight.
Rashok, the Elder
Talents/Build
Single Target.
Tips
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.
The Vigilant Steward, Zskarn
Talents/Build
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.
Tips
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.
Magmorax
Talents/Build
Single Target.
Tips
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.
Echo of Neltharion
Talents/Build
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.
Tips
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.
Scalecommander Sarkareth
Talents/Build
Single target unless your group is lacking in AoE.
Tips
For P2 and 3, hold onto Comet Storm for add spawns.. 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.
Changelog
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for 10.1.5 talents, and added tips to Sarkareth.
- 09 May 2023: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Kuni, one of the best Frost Mages in the world, who raids in Mortal Desire.
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