Frost Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — Dragonflight 10.0.5
On this page, we list the best gems, enchants, flasks, potions, and food you can get for your Frost Mage, based on your stat priority. We also give budget alternatives. This page is updated for World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.0.5.
If you were looking for WotLK Classic content, please refer to our WotLK Classic Frost Mage gems and enchants.
Item Quality Ranks
Profession Consumable Ranks
As part of Dragonflight's overhaul of Professions, many crafted items and consumables may have multiple ranks of quality that impact their effects. For consumables, there are potentially three ranks of an item that may be used, with Rank 3 items (shown as item level 415 in-game and with three gold stars) providing the most powerful bonuses. However, higher quality consumables will generally be more expensive and not always necessary depending on the content you are doing. You should be willing to use whatever rank of an item is most within your budget, and save higher-quality consumables for content where you will really need the extra boost!
If you would like to learn more about quality ranks on profession items, or the overhaul to professions as a whole, please see our overview below.
You should always take the highest rank available to you.
Best Gems for Frost Mage
You should use Skillful Illimited Diamond in one socket, and
Keen Neltharite in all other sockets.
Best Enchants for Frost Mage
Keep in mind that you should sim your character to find out which secondary stat is best for your gear. It may change from the suggestions below depending on various factors. More information on how stats work and interact with Frost Mage can be found here:
Slot | Enchantment |
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Bracers | Any option |
Cloak | Any option |
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Consumables for Frost Mage
Best Phials and Potions for Frost
Elemental Potion of Ultimate Power is the best potion to use.
Elemental Potion of Power is about 0.3% behind, however, and a great cost
saver.
Phial of Elemental Chaos should be used as your Phial of choice. In
theory,
Phial of Static Empowerment is best, and
Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage is competitive with it, but in practice they
seem to have enough downtime that Elemental Chaos will pull ahead.
Buzzing Rune is usually the better of the temporary runes, however
the difference between them is tiny.
Healthstones heal for 25% of the user's maximum health.
Refreshing Healing Potion does not share a cooldown with Healthstones,
and should also be used when extra healing is required.
Potion of Withering Vitality heals for about twice as much health as a
Refreshing Healing Potion and shares the same cooldown, however you will
suffer the same amount healed as damage over time.
Alter Time just
after hitting it can be a great way to negate much of the damage that it
applies to you.
Best Food for Frost
Grand Banquet of the Kalu'ak is the best food option, followed by
Sizzling Seafood Medley, and then
Salt-Baked Fishcake. The
difference is about 1% between them, but the Intellect food is best once you
start pushing out of the initial levelling gear.
Augment Runes for Frost
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Draconic Augment Runes to
increase your primary stat. Since there is a finite amount of the consumable
runes available, you should make sure to use them wisely and to stock up on them
for when you need them.
Changelog
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 10 Jan. 2023: Updated Phial choice, and added Rune choice.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for beginning of Dragonflight Season 1 with weapon enchant and food choice changes.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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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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