Frost Mage PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)

Last updated on Mar 21, 2023 at 19:43 by Pherix 17 comments

Choosing your gear carefully is important for your Frost Mage in PvP. We give you a stat priority to help you choose items with the correct stats, followed by advice on how to choose the rest of your gear and your trinkets to optimize your gameplay.

This page is part of our Frost Mage PvP Guide.

1.

Stat Priority for Frost Mages in PvP

The stat priority for Frost Mage in PvP is as follows:

  1. Intellect;
  2. Haste;
  3. Versatility;
  4. Critical Strike;
  5. Mastery.

Intellect is the best stat in all situations. Haste is the best secondary state. This stat will reduce your global cooldown and the cast times of important spells like Polymorph Icon Polymorph. Versatility increases the damage you deal and reduces the damage you take. This is why you should also be wearing gear with Versatility as well.

2.

Gear Recommendations

2.1.

General Guidelines

In general, Frost Mages want to get trinkets that line up well with Icy Veins Icon Icy Veins. These trinkets can have a passive or on-use effect. The stat you want to be increasing is Intellect or Haste. You want to increase Intellect because it drastically increases your overall damage output. Haste, meanwhile, allows for quicker casts to maximize damage. For more information about Icy Veins and your rotation in PvP, please refer to our dedicated page.

Below, you will find our current BiS list.

2.2.

Note: it is essential to be wearing 2 PvP trinkets. This will increase your Agility and Stamina, as well as reducing the duration of any incoming CC on you by 10%. This effect jumps to 15% if you have the correct crafted item, in our case Infurious Binding of Gesticulation Icon Infurious Binding of Gesticulation. As well as this crafted piece, you will want also to acquire the second crafted piece Infurious Legwraps of Possibility Icon Infurious Legwraps of Possibility.

Crimson Gladiator's Medallion Icon Crimson Gladiator's Medallion is typically 1 of 2 trinkets to have equipped at all times. This allows you to remove any crowd control on yourself. You will normally use this when you are stuck in crowd control and in danger of dying. Note, as of Dragonflight, previously, Eternal Gladiator's Relentless Brooch Icon Eternal Gladiator's Relentless Brooch has been removed, adding the CC reduction functionality to the new 2-set bonus.

Crimson Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity Icon Crimson Gladiator's Badge of Ferocity gives you Critical Strike and has a 1-minute cooldown that increases your primary stat. This is great to use right before you activate a powerful cooldown, however, this does not pair well with the long cooldown of Icy Veins Icon Icy Veins.

Crimson Gladiator's Emblem Icon Crimson Gladiator's Emblem increases your maximum health when used. This gives you an additional defensive when you think a team will attack you often.

Crimson Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity Icon Crimson Gladiator's Insignia of Alacrity increases your Haste and has a chance to proc your primary stat. This is an overall strong trinket, as the stat will often proc throughout an arena match. As a Frost Mage, typically, you will want to use Insignia for the additional Haste with the Intellect procs.

2.3.

Gems and Enchants

Here are the best enchants for a Frost Mage:

Gem all of your gear with Energized Ysemerald Icon Energized Ysemerald or Energized Malygite Icon Energized Malygite.

2.3.1.

Primordial Sockets in Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.

Primordial Sockets are a new feature that can be socketed into the Onyx Annulet Icon Onyx Annulet ring. Before the release of the Patch, it is difficult to determine how effective these gems are in PvP. This page will be updated shortly after the release of Patch 10.0.7 once the gems have been tested in PvP situations.

For more information regarding the Onyx Annulet, the Primordial Gemstones, and how to obtain them, check out our dedicated guide for it below.

3.

Changelog

  • 21 Mar. 2023: Updated for Patch 10.0.7.
  • 30 Jan. 2023: Reviewed for Patch 10.0.5.
  • 11 Dec. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Season 1.
  • 22 Nov. 2022: Updated for Dragonflight Pre-patch.
  • 31 Jul. 2022: Updated for Shadowlands Season 4.
  • 31 May 2022: Reviewed for Patch 9.2.5.
  • 28 Feb. 2022: Page updated for Patch 9.2.
  • 17 Nov. 2021: Page reviewed for Patch 9.1.5.
  • 04 Jul. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.1 of Shadowlands.
  • 19 Mar. 2021: Updated for Patch 9.0.5.
  • 23 Dec. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands.
  • 14 Oct. 2020: Updated for Shadowlands pre-patch.
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