Frost Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — Shadowlands 9.2
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Frost Mage in World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.2.
Frost Mage in Mythic+
Frost Mage is highly valued in Mythic+. It's one of the better 2 target
cleave specs, and has incredible AoE damage. In terms of utility it brings
Arcane Intellect for your casters and healers,
Remove Curse as minor utility, and the best AoE slows in the
game.
Frost Mage Mythic+ Rotation
Both the single target and multi-target rotations do not change in Mythic+ content, compared to raid content. For more information about the Frost Mage DPS rotations, refer back to the Rotation page, found here:
AoEing effectively is key to most of your damage in Mythic+. Most of your
AoE is going to be concentrated into Frozen Orb, so understanding how
it behaves versus a pack of trash is important. It will slow down on impact
with the first target in its radius, so it is usually somewhat beneficial to
be almost in melee range to ensure that it is ticking on the whole pack,
rather than just the edge of the pack. In addition, Frozen Orb has a fairly
high spell power coefficient, so do not feel bad popping cooldowns or trinkets
to vastly increase the damage of Frozen Orb.
Frozen Orb also procs
Icy Propulsion per-mob, per-tick. You
can take advantage of this by throwing
Frost Nova into a pack that it
is currently ticking on. While the freeze itself will only last just slightly
longer than 1 second, Frozen Orb ticks every half-second. This means that you
will get at least 2 ticks per mob frozen to benefit from
Shatter,
thus helping reduce the cooldown on
Icy Veins, sometimes drastically
so. Utilizing this can allow you to have Icy Veins available almost every pack
if you are pulling either quickly, or multiple packs at once.
Arcane Explosion can be a great boon for AoE damage, but you must
be able to conserve Mana, lest you be unable to continue even the base single
target rotation. Additionally, if
Spellsteal is needed, that adds an
even greater constraint on your Mana usage of Arcane Explosion.
Frost Mage Utility
Frost Mage provides support for the party through excellent cleave damage, raid buffs, and other additional effects such as mob management and immunity cheesing of mechanics.
Ice Block can be used to soak mechanics that would otherwise inconvenience or kill other party members.
Remove Curse allows you to remove curses, a fairly rare power limited to Druids and Restoration Shaman.
Arcane Intellect grants your party 5% Intellect, a sizable throughput benefit to your casters and healer.
Time Warp gives your group that extra DPS push.
- With
Frigid Winds you have access to the best AoE slow in the game through
Cone of Cold, and one of the top single target slows attached to your primary spell.
Polymorph,
Frost Nova,
Ring of Frost, and
Freeze all give you varying types of crowd control.
Alter Time, as elsewhere in the game, has the potential to cheese multiple positional mechanics or take pressure off your healers.
Mythic+ Talents for Frost Mages
As stated on the Talent page, Frost's talents are hard set for every scenario. What you're using in raid is what you're using in Mythic+. See our Talent page for more information:
Shadowlands Season 3 Affix: Encrypted
This affix adds 3 relic mobs to some trash packs and all bosses. Which one you kill first dictates what bonus you get. When all three relics are dead, an automata spawns as an extra mob to deal with. Killing it grants your buff. Which buff you target is going to depend on the specific pull. See our detailed explanation here:
Legion Timewalking Affix: Infernal
Legion Timewalking adds the option to to run Legion-era Mythic+, which
replaces the seasonal affix with Infernal. This affix adds three
beacons near specific bosses that spawns a commander and waves of adds.
Changelog
- 22 Jan. 2022: Updated for Patch 9.2.
- 01 Nov. 2021: Added suggestions for Tormented, and added preliminary information about Infernal.
- 28 Jun. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.
- 09 Mar. 2021: Reviewed for Patch 9.0.5.
- 07 Dec. 2020: Page updated for Shadowlands Season 1.
- 12 Oct. 2020: Page updated for the Shadowlands 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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