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Tier Set
Frost Mage Season 4 Tier Set is the same as the Season 3 Tier Set.
- (2) Set Bonus: Glacial Spike damage increased by 10% and it explodes when it Shatters a frozen target, dealing 20% of its damage dealt to nearby enemies. Deals reduced damage beyond 8 targets.
- (4) Set Bonus: Casting Glacial Spike has a 40% chance to trigger Brain Freeze.
There are a couple of points I want to address in terms of the tier set.
The 4-set bonus will give us a better flowing gameplay in terms of Brain Freeze generation (around 34-35% more brain freeze procs), which is a very nice thing. I also like the emphasis on Glacial Spike, since it’s our main source of damage. However, the downside is that the 2-set bonus works only with our main Glacial Spike, which will explode to nearby enemies. Our second glacial spike from Splitting Ice will still cleave, but won’t have the 2-set bonus effect.
I think overall it’s not the most interactive tier set, but it’s definitely very strong, and I am happy with it going forward.
Embellishments
I recommend crafting the following items for Frost embellishment:
- Double shadowflame tempered armor patch for the raid
- 2x Blue Silken Lining
- Azureweave Robe 2p set. It is a stacking intellect buff with a very high uptime. Unfortunately, it counts as 2 embellishments to complete the set, so I would say this is the best thing to craft if you want to do both raid and M+
- Potion Absorption Inhibitor + shadowflame tempered armor patch
Honestly all embellishments are relatively close to each other, and if you want to experiment, feel free to try any of these combinations.
Antique Bronze Bullion
Going into Season 4, Frost will gain returning items such as trinkets and some of the combinations possible can be extremely powerful.
Here are the top 3 choices that I think you should be getting as a Frost Mage for both Mythic+ and Raid.
Raiding:
- Voice of the Fallen Star: the Sarkareth Cloak if you want to go for Damage. If you don't want to lose the Health, then you could go for any weapon or any other stat you’d be missing
- Ominous Chromatic Essence: good old statstick (trinket gets stronger the more people are using it with different stats)
- Vessel of Searing Shadow
Since frost is not a bursty spec, it doesn’t really require us to have an on use for the single target setup in the raid, which makes the 2 trinkets listed above a perfect combination for high uptime and consistent damage, which is what frost is best at.
For Mythic+:
- Voice of the Fallen Star: if you want to go for Damage
- Spoils of Neltharus: a 2 minute cycling between stats which lines up with our icy veins, we don’t really care which stat it lines up with as all stats are strong and beneficial for us in our 2 minutes icy veins window
- Vessel of Searing Shadow or Ominous Chromatic Essence if more people in our party can use this trinket