Frost Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — Battle for Azeroth (BfA) 8.3

With the advent on Corrupted gear, a best in slot list is all but impossible to compile. Simply put, get as many pieces with Masterful as possible, along with three Flash Freeze traits.

For more information about the best Corruptions and corrupted items you can get, please refer to our dedicated page.

Since Azerite gear cannot be Corrupted, below are charts of relative strengths for the three Azerite slots. The key Azerite Trait to look for on your gear is Flash Freeze in most scenarios. Azerite gear can drop from loads of content, like World Quests, Warfronts, PvP, and some of the highest non-raid pieces can be bought using a currency from your weekly Mythic+ chest, so you should try to do all possible content. Below we have listed some good items to look for based on how to obtain them and the Azerite Traits they have on them. The listed items are from all locations, including raids, dungeons, and world quests.

Patch 8.3 added the Gouged Eye of N'Zoth as a reward from Corrupted Mementos, after you have finished the We Have the Technology achievement. Once finished, you should get a Gouged Eye about once every two weeks, assuming you are doing all of your Horrific Visions with 5 masks active. Your best candidate would be a very powerful Corrupted item, or trinket.

More information about Corrupted Mementos can be found at our Horrific Visions Hub.

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.

Due to the prevalence of high item level trinkets from various sources, it is always best to use Raidbots Top Gear to determine what your optimal trinkets are.