Frost Mage DPS Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — The War Within (11.0.5)
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 — The War Within (11.0.5).
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 Culminating Blasphemite in one socket. Then, you should ensure you have one gem of each type in other sockets to max out the Crit effect, ideally Quick Ruby/ Quick Onyx/ Quick Sapphire/ Masterful Emerald. Fill in remaining sockets with Masterful Emerald.
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 |
---|---|
Rings | Enchant Ring - Radiant Haste or whatever your sim tells you to run. The practical difference is tiny, and Haste is a good default. Generally do not bother with the Cursed variants, Frost likes all stats too much. Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck) |
Necklace | Magnificent Jeweler's Setting (adds up to 2 sockets to a Ring or Neck) |
Weapon | Enchant Weapon - Authority of the Depths, or Enchant Weapon - Authority of Radiant Power early on before Depths is available. |
Chest | Enchant Chest - Crystalline Radiance |
Bracers | Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Avoidance as a default, and Enchant Bracer - Chant of Armored Speed if you are not trying to do extremely high-end content, or the alt is simply an alt. |
Cloak | Enchant Cloak - Chant of Winged Grace as a default, and Enchant Cloak - Chant of Burrowing Rapidity if you are not trying to do extremely high-end content, or the alt is simply an alt. |
Boots | Enchant Boots - Defender's March as a default, and Enchant Boots - Scout's March if you are not trying to do extremely high-end content or the alt is simply an alt. |
Legs | Sunset Spellthread, or Weavercloth Spellthread (cheaper) |
The deciding factor between Avoidance/Stamina and Speed is simply if you feel like taking a minor amount less damage compared to moving nearly 9% faster at all times. You can make the argument for each in every scenario, even in extremely high-end content. Avoidance lets you survive larger hits; Speed gives you more leeway to run out of an AoE effect. The argument is as old as the game is; pick which you prefer.
For comparisons, full Avoidance enchants is 3.01%, full Leech is 3.0%, and full Speed is 8.82% at the cost of 18k health.
Consumables for Frost Mage
Best Flasks and Potions for Frost
Tempered Potion is the best potion to use.
You should be drinking the Flask of Alchemical Chaos at all times, although Flask of Tempered Versatility can be argued for high Mythic+.
Make sure to apply Algari Mana Oil to your weapon as well.
You should keep a stock of Algari Healing Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately! You can also obtain Fleeting Algari Healing Potion from Cauldrons that can be spawned by Alchemists.
Best Food for Frost Mage in The War Within
You should be eating from a primary stat Feast at all times, either Feast of the Divine Day, Feast of the Midnight Masquerade, or Hearty Feast of the Midnight Masquerade.
If Feasts are not available, eat Outsider's Provisions, Beledar's Bounty, Jester's Board, or Empress' Farewell instead.
Augment Runes for Frost
In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Crystallized Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!
Changelog
- 27 Oct. 2024: Updated with new theory for 11.0.5.
- 21 Oct. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 11.0.5.
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Updated for The War Within.
- 23 Jul. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 07 May 2024: Reviewed for 10.2.7.
- 22 Apr. 2024: Updated for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Updated for Patch 10.2.6, going back to Tepid Versatility in all situations.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated with 10.2's consumables and new head enchant.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for 10.1.5 with new phial and weapon rune suggestions.
- 01 May 2023: Added the new belt enchant.
- 23 Mar. 2023: Updated Primordial Stone section with new recommendations due to hotfix changes.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Added notes about Primordial Stones.
- 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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