Frost Mage DPS Sanctum of Domination Raid Guide — Shadowlands 9.1.5
On this page, you will find tips, tricks, and strategies tailored to your Frost Mage for each boss of the following raid: Sanctum of Domination. All our content is updated for World of Warcraft — Shadowlands 9.1.5.
Introduction
On this page, you will find Frost Mage specific information to deal with each boss in the Sanctum of Domination raid.
This page assumes that you already understand most of the mechanics of each encounter. These can be found on the full raid guide, so what is contained here are details specifically tailored toward Frost Mage and what you can do to deal with each fight as best as possible.
Talent Cheatsheet
We advise to use the following talents on The Tarragrue.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on The Tarragrue: Slick Ice.
We advise to use the following talents on The Eye of the Jailer.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on The Eye of the Jailer: Freezing Winds.
We advise to use the following talents on The Nine.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on The Nine: Freezing Winds.
We advise to use the following talents on Remnant of Ner'zhul.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Remnant of Ner'zhul: Slick Ice.
We advise to use the following talents on Soulrender Dormazain.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Soulrender Dormazain: Freezing Winds.
We advise to use the following talents on Painsmith Raznal.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Painsmith Raznal: Slick Ice.
We advise to use the following talents on Guardian of the First Ones.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Guardian of the First Ones: Slick Ice.
We advise to use the following talents on Fatescribe Roh-Kalo.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Fatescribe Roh-Kalo: Slick Ice.
We advise to use the following talents on Kel'Thuzad.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Kel'Thuzad: Freezing Winds.
We advise to use the following talents on Sylvanas Windrunner.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary on Sylvanas Windrunner: Freezing Winds.
The Tarragrue
We advise you to use the following talents against The Tarragrue.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Tarragrue: Slick Ice.
There are three subsets of Anima powers for this fight. DPS picks, utility picks, and "we are literally planning the raid around you" picks.
DPS picks, in rough order of DPS:
Elethium Weights
Huddled Carvings, if you can maintain the buff.
Potent Acid Gland
Tremorbeast Heart
- Either
Erratic Howler or
Heart-Seeking Fang if you can stand in melee range.
Obleron Venom
- Any non-Mastery Obleron powers.
Utility picks will mostly be Ever-Beating Heart if no one has taken
it, and you have that job.
Disembodied Mystic Hands if you have no
Enrage dispels.
Oddly Intangible Key can be fun for ignoring
Hungering Mist mechanic entirely.
The last set are mechanics that are either incredibly dangerous, or require
raid-wide cooperation. Lumbering Form is likely the highest DPS gain
out of the bunch, but you knock people around during
Hungering Mist
and it will kill them. Consider pairing it with
Oddly Intangible Key,
and never stacking on anyone.
Ten of Towers is also potentially
interesting, except if you die. Given it stuns the boss as well, the only
danger is missing a soak or dying during Hungering Mist. The last is
Twisted Samophlange. This is incredibly powerful to other people, but
not to the person who picked it. If you can layer a lot of them in the group,
this is the best pick, but it requires luck to get it on everyone, and staying
mostly stacked to make sure everyone gets the buff.
Outside of Anima powers, there is not much to this boss. Ice Block
can be used to soak just about every mechanic if needed.
For more information, please refer to our The Tarragrue guide.
The Eye of the Jailer
We advise you to use the following talents against The Eye of the Jailer.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Eye of the Jailer: Freezing Winds.
Slick Ice should be picked on Normal and LFR, due to there being no
adds.
Blink or
Shimmer through
Annihilating Glare to
avoid having to run to the edge of the room.
For more information, please refer to our The Eye of the Jailer guide.
The Nine
We advise you to use the following talents against The Nine.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against The Nine: Freezing Winds.
Alter Time has a great use in returning to range and healing the
damage from
Daschla's Mighty Impact.
Ice Block will remove
Fragments of Destiny, potentially at a
bad time. Leave it to the healers and refrain from hitting Ice Block while
having it unless called on to do so.
For more information, please refer to our The Nine guide.
Remnant of Ner'zhul
We advise you to use the following talents against Remnant of Ner'zhul.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Remnant of Ner'zhul: Slick Ice.
Blink/
Shimmer and
Alter Time can all be used to
negate the knockback from
Malevolence.
If assigned, Blink/
Shimmer and
Alter Time can
also be used to deal with taking the Orb of Torment to the edge of the
platform and returning to combat quickly.
For more information, please refer to our Remnant of Ner'zhul guide.
Soulrender Dormazain
We advise you to use the following talents against Soulrender Dormazain.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Soulrender Dormazain: Freezing Winds.
Ice Block can remove the
Brand of Torment debuff, allowing a
Mage to carry two sets of chains when combined with our movement abilities.
For more information, please refer to our Soulrender Dormazain guide.
Painsmith Raznal
We advise you to use the following talents against Painsmith Raznal.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Painsmith Raznal: Slick Ice.
Blink/
Shimmer will let you bypass both the spikes
mechanics, and the
Spiked Balls mechanics.
For more information, please refer to our Painsmith Raznal guide.
Guardian of the First Ones
We advise you to use the following talents against Guardian of the First Ones.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Guardian of the First Ones: Slick Ice.
Have a defensive for Purging Protocol pulses. Otherwise, there are
no Mage-specific tips.
For more information, please refer to our Guardian of the First Ones guide.
Fatescribe Roh-Kalo
We advise you to use the following talents against Fatescribe Roh-Kalo.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Fatescribe Roh-Kalo: Slick Ice.
Blink/
Shimmer and
Alter Time can be used to
quickly deal with
Call of Eternity.
For more information, please refer to our Fatescribe Roh-Kalo guide.
Kel'Thuzad
We advise you to use the following talents against Kel'Thuzad.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Kel'Thuzad: Freezing Winds.
Frost Blast does not consider an immune player for the split
damage. Only
Ice Block if you're the primary target and no one else is
with you.
For more information, please refer to our Kel'Thuzad guide.
Sylvanas Windrunner
We advise you to use the following talents against Sylvanas Windrunner.
- Level 15:
Lonely Winter
- Level 25:
Shimmer or
Ice Floes
- Level 30:
Rune of Power (situational options:
Incanter's Flow or
Focus Magic)
- Level 35:
Chain Reaction
- Level 40: No specific recommendation
- Level 45:
Splitting Ice
- Level 50:
Thermal Void
We advise you to use the following Legendary against Sylvanas Windrunner: Freezing Winds.
Keep an eye on Domination Chains timer, as the target downtime will
destroy your
Icy Veins uptime.
You cannot Ice Block
Veil of Darkness off.
Alter Time can help you survive the healing reduction, however.
For more information, please refer to our Sylvanas Windrunner guide.
Changelog
- 01 Nov. 2021: Reviewed and approved for Patch 9.1.5.
- 03 Oct. 2021: Added missing Sylvanas tips.
- 13 Jul. 2021: Removed PTR disclaimer.
- 05 Jul. 2021: Guide added.
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