Frost Mage PvP Talents and Builds — Midnight Pre-Patch (12.0)

While the above table provides a generally accurate overview of the viability of talents, some finer points are discussed in the sections that follow, and we recommend you read those for a deeper understanding.

• Temporal Realignment is an amazing defensive passive. When dropped below 25% health, you cast Alter Time and instantly return to 50% health. This is great for preventing you from using Ice Block when teams focus you.
• Dragon's Breath: One of the strongest offensive crowd control abilities in the game; use this to setup crowd control on multiples enemies with Polymorph or Ring of Frost.
• Inspired Intellect, Tome of Rhonin, Charm of Aegwynn, and Charm of Medivh are all small modifiers to stats that help greatly in arena.
• Alter Time, Ice Barrier/ Improved Ice Barrier, and Mass Invisibility are all great defensives offered in the Mage Tree.

• Wintertide gives Frozen Orb a 100% chance to grant Brain Freeze.
• Ray of Frost: A castable ray that deals damage over time and applies a very significant slow to the enemy.
  • Ray of Frost is buffed by Frigid Focus and Glaciate.
  • Comet Storm replaces Ray of Frost after you use it. This gives you more instant damage during your burst rotation.
• Thermal Void. After consuming Brain Freeze you have a 100% chance to cause your next Ice Lance to Shatter 5 additional stacks of Freezing.

Snowdrift gives a castable blizzard effect around you for 6 seconds, which slows enemies heavily, and if enemies are caught within the effect for 3 seconds, they are stunned for 4 seconds. This talent has yet to have been tested thoroughly and is quite volatile if it will be often used or not. With the changes to this talent becoming instant cast, it will likely be strong.

Overpowered Barrier increases the absorb of your barriers by 100% and have an additional effect, but last 5 seconds. If Ice Barrier is fully absorbed, you deal damage to enemies within 10 yards of you and slow them for by 70% fo 4 seconds. This is great for giving you another slow to help get away from enemy players.

Ice Wall is a talent that allows you to place a wall of ice in a specific area for 15 seconds with 40% of your maximum health. This wall obstructs the line-of-sight and can be used to block enemies from running away or block a line of sight from a healer to a damage class. This could be good in Arena or Rated Battlegrounds. This ability has a lot of creativity, and you can use it in many different ways.

Master Shepherd is a new talent allowing Polymorph to no longer heal enemies, as well as grant Versatility and Speed bonuses. This talent will highly be opted for, making Polymorph not heal your enemies to full health , as well as giving you a sizeable versatility buff.

Concentrated Coolness increases Frozen Orb's damage and is now castable at a location with a 40-yard range but no longer moves. This talent will make your sustained damage lower but increases your burst damage significantly.

Frost Bomb applies a bomb effect to a target, dealing damage to the current target and AoE damage surrounding it. This applies a very significant slow and seems quite strong for burst damage and kiting potential.