Frost Mage DPS Simulations — The War Within (Season 1)
On this page, you will find a number of useful simulation results for your Frost Mages in World of Warcraft — The War Within (Season 1).
New Patch Warning
Ahead of any given patch, support will be limited. While Mage is lucky to have amazing code authors and is extremely well supported and updated quickly in Simulationcraft, the first week or two tend to be turbulent. There are APL optimizations to be made, gear optimizations to be found, and trinket effects to be added and troubleshot. Please be patient during the first couple of weeks of a patch.
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How to Simulate your Frost Mage
With the advent of certain tools such as Raidbots, simulating your character has now become simple enough that we can recommend even the average player to simulate their characters. It is through advanced simulations that many of the recommendations in this guide are found, and by doing your own you can easily figure out what talents you should be using with your particular gearing combination, what gear to equip, what Legendaries to equip, and more. Below there is a video guiding you on how to sim your character, and links to the addon required by the video as well as Raidbots.
Information on how stats interact, and how stat weights can be incorrect, especially around the Shatter cap, please refer to the Stats page:
Frost Mage Racial Bonus Simulation
Keep in mind that the following simulation is done with the default T25 Mythic profile. Your own DPS gains will be different, however the difference between races is fairly small regardless. In most cases, you can simply pick which race looks best to you with minimal disruption to your damage output.
Changelog
- 09 Sep. 2024: Reviewed for The War Within Season 1.
- 21 Aug. 2024: Reviewed 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: Reviewed for Season 4.
- 19 Mar. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.6 and added a generic new patch warning.
- 15 Jan. 2024: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.5.
- 06 Nov. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.2.
- 04 Sep. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.1.7
- 10 Jul. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.5.
- 01 May 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.1.
- 20 Mar. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.7.
- 24 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
- 11 Dec. 2022: Reviewed for Dragonflight Season 1.
- 28 Nov. 2022: Reviewed 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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