Frost Mage Gearing Guide

The Tier Set Bonus in Patch 11.2 is now based on your Hero Talent and not only your specialisation.

Frostfire Season 3 Frost Mage Tier Set Bonus:

• Frostfire 2p - Meteor and Frostfire burst damage is increased by 30%, frostfire bolt damage is increased by 10%. Also, Meteor, frostfire burst and frostfire bolt now apply ignite, dealing an additional 30% over 9 seconds.
• Frostfire 4p - Casting glacial spike has a 100% chance to cast a pyroblast, dealing some damage, and now Pyroblast benefits from Ignite.

Spellslinger Season 3 Frost Mage Tier Set Bonus:

• Spellslinger 2p - Ice lance and icicles damage increased by 10%, Ice lance has a 50% chance to generate 1 stack of Cold Front Direct, and splinter damage has a 15% chance to grant another stack of cold front.
• Spellslinger 4p - When frozen orb deals damage to one or more enemies, it has a 15% chance to grant a stack of cold front. When cold front summons a frozen orb it increases our spell damage by 8% for 10 seconds.

The War Within Season 3 Frost Mage Tier Set Bonus Conclusions:

Spellslinger: I think spellslinger got a pretty nice, but boring tier set, a lot of power is tied into ice lance and frozen orb; nothing that changes our gameplay drastically, but the damage is there for sure. Also, this tier set bumps our mastery value even further, because the interaction with the tier set buffing our Lance damage, Frozen Orb and Icicles, so the value of mastery generally will go pretty high for us.

Frostfire: Frostfire tier set took a massive hit unfortunately, specifically with the pyroblast damage after casting glacial spike, however it still remains a strong tier set.

Based on the last few PTR builds, both spellslinger and frostfire are very close in ST. That being said, Frostfire is pulling slightly ahead in terms of which will see more use because of Ignite/Comet Storm/Meteor cleave effectiveness.

This is the absolute best in slot setup you could have for Frost Mage, combined from both M+ and raid items.

With that being said, we consider that not everyone enjoys raiding so I will make a list for alternative items you can get from M+ to be as geared as possible.

Keep in mind that this is not a replacement for siming your character, as you will likely not have all these items at once, so to determine what is your next upgrade, always sim yourself.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are many new Trinkets for Frost Mage in Patch 11.2, I have listed some of the best and some great alternative trinkets. I specifically included details for the ritual forge. However, for the other trinkets, there isn't much to say, as they are mostly just passive trinkets.

The trinkets from the BiS list are the top simming trinkets, but some trinkets are very close alternatives.

Best Season 3 Trinkets for Frost Mage

The following Trinkets are considered some of the best for Frost Mage in Patch 11.2, these are the trinkets you want to target when looking for gear upgrades:

• Araz's Ritual Forge - I strongly believe this trinket will be the best trinket during progression because of all the damage amplification bosses that exist in the manaforge omega raid. This is a bit more of a theory for now, so please keep in mind that it might not end up being as good as I'm expecting.
• Azhiccaran Parapodia - Similar to the sacbrood trinket, it does damage and has haste on it, which is very good, and gives us intellect in return.

Good Alternative Trinkets for Frost Mage in Season 3

This section is more of an alternative option for trinkets, they are trinkets that I think will be good in case people can't get their hands on the best in slot trinkets:

• Lily of the Eternal Weave
• Ara-Kara Sacbrood
• So'leah's Secret Technique
• Astral Antenna

For Frost Mage, the embellishment I will recommend is Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension with Writhing Armor Banding or 2x Duskthread Lining (Versatility Embellishment), Ascension is better in the raid.

Embellishments have very little, to almost no effect on our damage, so you can go with whatever you prefer. I'm personally going to go with the 2x Versatility (Duskthread Lining), since it makes me a tiny bit more tanky and it’s pretty good for Mythic+.

New Dagger + Trinket Combo in Patch 11.2

There’s a new Sword and Trinket combo that almost every caster is going to use. This was particularly strong on PTR, and so this will most likely be our best in slot.

Sword: Voidglass Sovereign's Blade. This sword makes your spells have a chance to conjure voidglass shards, slicing enemies for Cosmic damage or orbiting allies to absorb damage for up to 20 sec.

Trinket: Diamantine Voidcore. This trinket makes your spells have a chance to empower Voidcore, granting you 11,000 Intellect for 15 seconds. This chance is increased by 25% while below 25% mana, multiple applications may overlap. This trinket was still bugged at the end of PTR and gave more intellect than it should, so blizzard might nerf / fix this before it drops on live.

I strongly believe this trinket will be the best trinket during Raid progression because of all the damage amps that Manaforge Omega bosses have.

However, this is something we have to wait and see how it turns out, so for now I didn't include it in the BiS list

However, even after a predictable nerf, we predict this combo is going to be an extremely powerful one, and we will want to use it most definitely as a locked-in trinket slot at the very least.

Reshii Wraps

Reshii Wraps is the only cloak you will use in Season 3. It is an artifact cloak that you unlock by completing chapter 3 of the main patch storyline. The Reshii Wraps are upgradable via Ethereal Strands and can have secondary stats of your choice added to it.

To add a secondary stat to the Reshii Wraps you use a Fiber in the Fiber Socket of the Cloak. The highest quality version of the Fibers requires a work-order to a Tailor.

When picking a Fiber, I strongly recommend simming your character for the best stat for your current gear and intended content. If you just want a quick recommendation for which Reshii Fiber to use, then use Pure Chronomatic Fiber (Haste). Or Crit or Mastery Depending no your stats

To find out more about the Reshii Wraps, you can read the Method Reshii Wraps Overview Guide.

Best D.I.S.C Belt & Miniature Titan Disc Effects

Season 3 Note: For Patch 11.2, the belt is replaceable by any hero or above track belt you’ll find most likely, just sim yourself to make sure but you are pretty safe to replace them as soon as you find another belt especially if it has crit haste or mastery on it since the DISC belt have no secondaries.

There’s a new belt coming with patch 11.1.7 that is being obtained via Charged Delves, which is a major power increase and something worth getting.

The belt starts at ilvl 691 and can be upgraded to ilvl 701.

That belt is essentially like Cyrce’s Circlet ring from the last patch with some effects.

Recommended Titan Discs for Frost Mage:

• Raid: Any of the stats Mastery/Crit/Vers since frost already have high haste generally so you’d get more benefit from the other stats.
• M+: Spark Burst or The Crit/Mastery one.

For more information about unlocking the DISC belt and the different Miniature Titan Disc effects available, check out Method's D.I.S.C Belt Guide.