Frost Mage DPS Easy Mode — Midnight (12.0.1)

This build is optimal for pure single-target situations.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

This is our recommended build for AoE scenarios. This works well for AoE Fights in Raids, as well as most Mythic+.

Be sure to make use of the 'Export Talents' button to import the best build directly into your game!

The goal of Frostfire Frost Mage is to generate as many Brain Freeze procs as possible so you can cast more Flurry

1. Cast Flurry on cooldown.
2. Cast Glacial Spike when it lights up and changes your Frostfire Bolt button to it.
3. Cast Frozen Orb when available.
4. Cast Ice Lance at 10 or more Freezing stacks, or with Fingers of Frost whenever it procs.
5. Cast Ray of Frost and the subsequent Comet Storm that comes from it.
6. Cast Frostfire Bolt as a filler.

Functionally the only thing that gets added to our AoE is Blizzard on cooldown. There are some minor tweaks to the priority list when compared to the single target, but it is still very simple.

1. Cast Ray of Frost and the resultant Comet Storm.
2. Cast Frozen Orb
3. Cast Glacial Spike when it lights up and changes your Frostfire Bolt button to it.
4. Cast Flurry if available.
5. Cast Blizzard.
6. Cast Ice Lance if you have Fingers of Frost available, or there are more than 10 Freezing stacks on the target.
7. Cast Frostfire Bolt.

The Apex talent has no impact on our rotations, other than giving us more availability on Ray of Frost and thus Comet Storm. Go crazy with it!

For more detailed information about how to play Frost, please refer to the Rotation page:

Ice Barrier is your bread and butter. It has a low cooldown, and it gives you a 30% health buffer. Never be afraid to hit this button; it will almost always be there for you due to its short cooldown. It will save you so much more than you think it will.

Ice Block and its alternative talent option, Ice Cold are both our strongest single defensive buttons. Ice Block is a full immunity, which means you cannot be damaged inside of it except for very special attacks that pierce immunities. This will also clear almost all debuffs from you and is extremely powerful for escaping mechanics. Ice Cold on the other hand, frees you up so that you can still move and attack, at the cost of being shorter duration and not being a full immunity, although still one of the strongest defensives in the game.

Greater Invisibility is a good button to hit if there's a large single hit coming for you, by causing a mob to drop target while casting. This can break many mechanics; if you are in doubt, try it.

For a beginner, never hit Alter Time, and instead heavily rely on Temporal Realignment.

Combat Assistant, telling you what to press next, is not a terrible option when you are just starting out. You are looking at an approximate 10% DPS loss, with lesser losses on Frostfire than Spellslinger.

In dungeon content, it starts falling apart, performing another 10% worse again on AoE. For an alt, and for learning how this spec plays, this is not a terrible penalty.

The one button combat penalty jumps this penalty by another ~10%, totalling about 30% loss in AoE combat, and 20% in single target. Learning the spec properly will always perform significantly better, regardless of spec, but this could be a very usable option for someone new.