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WeakAuras
A must-have addon that tracks all required buffs, debuffs, cooldowns, and class resources. You can find all WeakAuras at https://wago.io/.
For Frost Mage, the most important elements to track with WeakAuras are:
- All your cooldowns (Icy Veins, Comet Storm, Frozen Orb, Blizzard, Flurry, Cone of Cold)
- Important buffs and debuffs affecting your gameplay (Death’s Chill, Winter’s Chill, Icy Veins uptime)
- Resources (Icicles)
Frost Mage WeakAuras can be found here: https://wago.io/the-war-within-weakauras/classes/mage/frost
Free WeakAura packages I recommend:
Try all three and see which fits you best. I personally prefer Porom’s. You can also use mine, which only tracks buffs and debuffs:
Or Manather’s:
BigWigs / DeadlyBossMods
Another must-have addon that I highly recommend. Without it, you would have no indication of incoming raid mechanics, such as add spawns, boss immunities, or phase transitions.
Plater
Another must-have addon, in my opinion. It makes nameplates very clear and displays all important information, from total health to the current percentage of enemy mobs. With the correct setup and profile, it also tracks crucial debuffs for Frost Mage, such as Winter’s Chill.
You can use my setup: https://wago.io/3wM6OURPQOr alternatively, Jundies’ Plater profile: https://wago.io/ak3iS95aa
Shadowed Unit Frames
An optional addon that I personally recommend which makes every unit frame in the game look smooth and clear. That includes your health bar, enemy unit frame and your party and raid unit frame. The default one is not as clear which makes seeing your own health bar quite difficult.
You can use my own setup: https://wago.io/3cWxtlgZl
Macros
Blizzard @cursor macro
This macro removes the green circle you would typically have and lets you cast Blizzard at your cursor, essentially saving you time.
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] blizzard
Icy Veins + Racial + Trinket - This macro will activate Icy Veins with your on use Trinket on the first Slot Assuming you have one and your Racial assuming you are a Troll(if you are an Orc u might want to change Berserking to your Current Racial)
#showtooltip Icy Veins
/cast Icy Veins
/cast Berserking
/use 13
Macro for Stop Casting and Use Ice Block - Pressing this Macro Twice will cancel Ice Block to get out of Block Quickly, Be careful to not Press it twice too fast otherwise you will end up wasting Ice Block
#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Ice Block
/cancelaura Ice Block
Macro for Counter Spell Your Focus Target (Essential for Mythic+)
/cast [target=focus] Counterspell
Another Useful Macro to have Mouseover Focus Target
/focus [target=mouseover]
It is extremely Important in Mythic+ Since it’s a fast paced gameplay and you don’t want to lose time right clicking on the mob frame to create a focus, with that macro you will mouse over the Target you wish to focus so you will know when you need to kick an important cast!
Macro for Mouseover Decurse - Useful for some Keys such as 2nd boss on Halls of Atonement and Sylvanas Mythic.
#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover,help,exists][] Remove Curse