Frost Mage PvP Talents and Builds — The War Within (11.2)

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.

• Dragon's Breath: One of the strongest offensive Crowd Control abilities in the game, all specializations of Mage have access to this talent. You can easily chain Dragon's Breath to Polymorph. This is also a crucial spell for landing Snowdrift on enemies.
• Blast Wave: This gives an explosion effect around the caster and slowing enemies after. This is extremely strong to use when enemies are using heavy offensive cooldowns.
• Freezing Cold: Applies a 5-second snare when enemies are hit by Cone of Cold, allowing for more kiting potential.
• Greater Invisibility often breaks quite rapidly; however, it provides a 60% damage reduction for 3 seconds after Invisibility; use this before heavy incoming damage to negate the effect.
• Mass Barrier is a crucial spell to keep you and your teammates alive. Use this when you need the extra survivability when your healer is stuck in crowd control.

• Perpetual Winter: Flurry now has two charges, allowing faster instant damage and more Shatters with Winter's Chill.
• Wintertide: Increasing Frostbolt damage and also increases damage dealt by Fingers of Frost procs.
• Ray of Frost: A castable ray that deals damage over time and applies a very significant slow to the enemy.
• Thermal Void: Increases Icy Veins baseline duration, as well as increasing the duration based on how many Ice Lances against frozen targets are used.
• Freezing Winds: Another returning legendary allowing for spammable Fingers of Frost Ice Lances in rapid succession
• Slick Ice: A ramping damage and haste modifier to Frostbolt that allows you to cast faster and deal more significant damage with each Frostbolt.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.