Frost Mage DPS Mythic+ Tips — Dragonflight 10.2
In this guide, you will find tips and advice to tackle Mythic+ dungeons with your Frost Mage in World of Warcraft — Dragonflight 10.2.
Frost Mage in Mythic+
Frost Mage is highly valued in Mythic+. It is one of the better 2-target
cleave specs and has amazing burst AoE damage. In terms of utility, it brings
Arcane Intellect for your casters and healers,
Remove Curse and
Spellsteal as dispels, a powerful knockback,
an AoE disorient, mass crowd control both hard and soft, a party-wide 22%
health barrier, and even the potential
to let the group skip trash packs. It also has the best AoE slows in the
game.
Frost Mage Mythic+ Rotation
The single target rotations do not change in Mythic+ content, compared to raid content. For more information about the Frost Mage DPS rotation, refer back to the Rotation page, found here:
The main AoE rotation for Frost is fairly simple. Firstly, you
have your Frozen Orb and
Blizzard machine.
Ice Caller
reduces the cooldown of Frozen Orb for each mob that Blizzard damages on each
damage wave. Given that Frozen Orb is one of your most powerful spells for the
entire run, this is extremely important. On the flip side, having enough
targets to reset Frozen Orb reliably means that you should have very close to
100% uptime on
Freezing Rain, which will improve your Blizzard damage
and make it instant. This is the primary part of Frost's AoE.
The next part is related to Coldest Snap. Functionally you want to
walk up to a pack, throw
Frozen Orb,
Blizzard,
Comet Storm,
Cone of Cold, Frozen Orb,
Comet Storm, Blizzard, and then
Shifting Power. The
idea is that Cone of Cold resets Comet Storm and Frozen Orb both and applies
Winter's Chill to the entire pack hit. The delay on Comet Storm means
that both Comet Storm sets should land within Winter's Chill and gain the
benefit of
Shatter.
Between these, you would ideally want to cast Glacial Spike between
all of this and land
Ice Nova or
Frost Nova directly after
casting it to let it benefit from
Shatter and
Subzero if
talented into it.
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.
Spellsteal grants you an offensive magic dispel, another fairly rare power.
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.
Blast Wave can knock mobs out of Sanguine or be used as an AoE pseudo-interrupt.
Dragon's Breath can similarly be used as an AoE pseudo-interrupt.
Alter Time, as elsewhere in the game, has the potential to cheese multiple positional mechanics, or take pressure off your healers.
Mass Barrier applies your
Ice Barrier to the entire group.
Mass Invisibility lets you take the place of a Rogue and grant your group a trash skip.
Mythic+ Talents for Frost Mages
As stated on the Talent page, almost none of the class tree is set in stone, and you can change talents around as you see fit and depending on what your group needs.
This talent build is a generalist build. If you do not need the trash skip
talents, or Remove Curse, or even
Spellsteal, feel free to
move things around and grab other defensive points you may like.
In theory Ice Ward is a slight DPS gain for more
Shatters,
but you would lose either
Greater Invisibility,
Dragon's Breath,
or
Mass Barrier/
Mass Invisibility. If you feel safe in dropping
the defensive, AoE stop, or group utility, you could pick it up.
Freezing Cold is a slightly better pick, as it lets a chunk of your
Coldest Snap burst benefit from
Shatter.
Snowstorm is a great talent in theory but has practical issues in
most groups. The buff is timed, despite not showing a timer. This
makes it impossible to take a partial stack from before a boss to the
trash pack after the boss. Adding in that most groups are conservative in how
much they pull, the stacking is likely not maximized per tick, making it
fall behind even further. These must be addressed before Snowstorm is a
good pick unless you are in a group you know will maximize large pulls.
Energized Barriers, like in the raid, is incredibly useful in
removing certain debuffs. It should be noted that this does not apply to
teammates with
Mass Barrier, but it will trigger on yourself again.
Mythic+ Affix Utility
Energized Barriers can snap
Entangling without moving.
Incorporeal can be
Polymorphed, but not
Mass Polymorphed. Since Polymorph has no cooldown, you can re-target if
a teammate overlaps on the same target.
Afflicted is countered by
Remove Curse.
Mythic+ Tier List
For an opinion list of how Frost fares against other DPS specs in Mythic+, please see our Tier List page:
Changelog
- 06 Nov. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.7
- 15 Jul. 2023: Subzero nerfed enough to not be worth taking in most M+ setups.
- 10 Jul. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.5's rotational and talent changes.
- 01 May 2023: Updated for Dragonflight Season 2, and added a section about affixes we can trivialize.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Changed the default talent tree.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 22 Dec. 2022: Changed default build to Lonely Winter due to hotfix buffs.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Added a note about Lonely Winter/Water Elemental decision.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight launch.
- 24 Oct. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight pre-patch.
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