Introduction
My name is Tamir, also known as Tam1h, Raiding with Angered on Ragnaros EU. I’ve been raiding competitively since Warlord of Draenor, and Pushing High Keys as a Mage since Legion.
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Strengths:
- Frost as a spec is in a very competitive spot right now. It has one of the best, if not the best 2 target cleave and a very high sustained single-target damage over long fights.
- Significant funnel damage (funnel means you are utilizing multiple targets to funnel damage into a priority target or a boss).
- It has the potential to utilize double immunity due to Cold Snap which gives you essentially 2 ice blocks.
Weakness:
- Frost, as a spec, suffers a lot from heavy downtime on some fights when you have to stop DPS, such as on Painsmith, Kel’thuzad, Sylvanas, since you want to always be in combat and cast frostbolt \ flurry to keep reducing the cooldown of Icy Veins.
- Relatively weak damage on demand.
- Low Priority Target burst \ Swap targeting is pretty bad unless you are Holding Flurry \ Fingers of Frost procs in advance.
What has changed
9.1.5 Frost Mage Changes
We are getting a small buff to our single target damage with frostbolt and Flurry, roughly around 4%.
Frozen Orb is now Uncapped (Lower Damage after 8 Targets) Which means Freezing Rain is extremely good in heavy AoE Fights and Mythic+ dungeons.
The Glacial Fragment Legendary is now uncapped.
Patch 9.1
Frost Mage Gained a lot of power due to high scaling conduits such as Icy Propulsion, Ice Bite, Unrelenting Cold.