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Table of Contents
General Information
On this page, we list the spells that you will often use as a Frost Mage.
The other pages of our Frost Mage guide can be accessed from the table of contents on the right.
About Our Author and Reviewer
This guide has been written by Furty, who has an illustrious history in the World of Warcraft raiding scene and race for World First. He has been a member of guilds such as Serenity, Midwinter, and many more, and is currently raiding in Future. He plays most classes at the highest level. You can follow him on Twitter and watch him play on Twitch.
This guide has been reviewed and approved by Kuni, one of the best Frost Mages in the world, who raids in Midnight Sanctuary.
1. Frost Mage Spell Summary
If you are new to Frost, it is recommended you read this before proceeding! In this section we will discuss what abilities you have, what they are used for within the specialization, and how they interact with important cooldowns. If you have played this spec before or have already achieved a level of comfort playing this spec in a practical environment, it is recommended you skip this section and move on to the rest of the guide.
2. Main Resource for Frost Mage
Frost Mage does not rely on a primary resource. Like the other Mage specs you have a Mana bar, however, Frost relies more on generating procs through your basic spells to fuel damage output. You will never run into a situation where you find your Mana bar fully depleted by casting combat spells.
3. Basic Abilities for Frost Mage
These abilities are available no matter what talents you chose, and form the bread and butter of this specialization.
Frostbolt is your main filler. While Frostbolt does fairly
weak damage on its own, it is essential to your overall damage output as it
triggers both of your important procs, 
Brain Freeze and
Fingers of Frost.
Ice Lance is an instant cast nuke that deals solid damage when
it is empowered by Fingers of Frost. Ice Lance is only worth
casting when it benefits from 
Shatter.
Frozen Orb travels forwards in a line and deals AoE damage.
The orb generates 1 charge of Fingers of Frost and has an equal
chance as Frostbolt to generate Fingers of Frost
when dealing repeat instances of damage. This ability deals moderate damage
on its own, but it is mostly used to quickly generate multiple instances
of Fingers of Frost for burst.
Flurry is a nuke with a lengthy cast time. The
Brain Freeze proc allows this cast to be instant, and as such
Flurry should only be cast while Brain Freeze is active.
Summon Water Elemental grants you a pet that deals damage.
In addition, the Water Elemental has the unique abilities 
Freeze
and 
Water Jet, which help with increased Fingers of Frost
generation.
4. Important Procs for Frost Mage
Fingers of Frost is your main source of burst damage output.
Fingers of Frost has a 12% chance to proc off of Frostbolt and
Frozen Orb. Fingers of Frost causes your next Ice Lance
to benefit from Shatter, which grants a greatly increased chance
to Critically Strike.
Brain Freeze has a 15% chance to proc off of a Frostbolt
cast, and causes your next Flurry to be an instant, deal 50% extra
damage, and apply Winter's Chill to the target for 1 second. Winter's Chill
causes the target to behave as if it was frozen, allowing you to benefit from
Shatter. You should follow up your Brain Freeze casts with an
Ice Lance to exploit this.
5. DPS Cooldowns for Frost Mage
Icy Veins increases your Haste by 30% for 20 seconds. This is
your main DPS cooldown and is generally best used on cooldown, paired with your
Frozen Orb.
Time Warp increases Haste by 30% for 40 seconds for all party and
raid members within 100 yards. This ability debuffs everyone with a debuff that
prevents the possibility of benefiting from Time Warp,
Ancient Hysteria, 
Netherwinds, 
Heroism, and
Bloodlust for the next 10 minutes.
6. ChangeLog
- 06 Jul. 2017: Updated Flurry tooltip link (was previously linking to Winter's Chill).
- 12 Jun. 2017: Page reviewed and deemed updated for 7.2.5.
- 25 Oct. 2016: Added a mention that Brain Freeze now causes the next Flurry to also deal 50% increased damage.
- 29 Aug. 2016: Updated for Legion's launch.
- 18 Jul. 2016: Updated for the Legion pre-patch.
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