Frost Mage PvP Stat Priority, Gear, and Trinkets (Dragonflight / 10.0.7)
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.
Stat Priority for Frost Mages in PvP
The stat priority for Frost Mage in PvP is as follows:
- Intellect;
- Haste;
- Versatility;
- Critical Strike;
- 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. 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.
Gear Recommendations
General Guidelines
In general, Frost Mages want to get trinkets that line up well with
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.
- Head:
Crystal Scholar's Cowl or (if you are not using the set piece
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Guise)
- Neck:
Crimson Gladiator's Necklace
- Shoulders:
Crimson Gladiator's SRobe
- Cloak:
Crimson Gladiator's Drape
- Chest:
Crystal Scholar's Tunic or (if you are not using the set piece
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Tunic)
- Wrists:
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Armbands
- Hands:
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Gloves
- Waist:
Infurious Binding of Gesticulation
- Legs:
Infurious Legwraps of Possibility
- Feet:
Crimson Gladiator's Silk Treads
- Ring 1:
Crimson Gladiator's Ring
- Ring 2:
Crimson Gladiator's Signet or
Signet of Titanic Insight
- Weapon:
Crimson Gladiator's Staff.
Recommended Trinkets
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. As well as this crafted
piece, you will want also to acquire the second crafted piece
Infurious Legwraps of Possibility.
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 has
been removed, adding the CC reduction functionality
to the new 2-set bonus.
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.
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 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.
Gems and Enchants
Here are the best enchants for a Frost Mage:
- Bracers:
Enchant Bracer - Devotion of Leech
- Boots:
Enchant Boots - Plainsrunner's Breeze
- Cloak:
Enchant Cloak - Homebound Speed
- Chest:
Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
- Rings:
Enchant Ring - Devotion of Haste
- Weapon:
Enchant Weapon - Wafting Devotion or
Enchant Weapon - Frozen Writ
- Legs:
Frozen Spellthread
Gem all of your gear with Energized Ysemerald or
Energized Malygite.
Primordial Sockets in Dragonflight Patch 10.0.7.
Primordial Sockets are a new feature that can be socketed into the 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.
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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