Method Frost Mage Guide - Shadowlands 9.0 - Stats Races And Consumables

Stat Priorities

Not much has changed for frost mages in terms of stat priorities. You’ll always want to get as close to your shatter-crit which is 33%.

Intellect
Critical Strike (to 33.34%)
Haste
Versatility
Mastery
Critical Strike (after 33.34%)

Stat Outline

Crit: Increases your chance to critically strike. As a frost mage you have Shatter, which makes you always critically strike on frozen targets when you have 33.34% crit.

Haste: decreases the cast time of your spells, also lowers global cooldown as well as the cooldown of Blizzard.

Versatility: gives a flat damage done increase and damage taken reduction.

Mastery: Mastery: Icicles – causes Frostbolt and Flurry to store an Icicle which deals damage determined by your mastery and spell power. It also increases Frozen Orb damage.

The best way to calculate stat priorities for your character is to "sim" your character

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Races

Trolls are still the strongest with their racial haste increase buff Berserking. I could see this change later in the expansion once we get strong enough potency conduits where Icy Veins won’t line up with berserking (3-minute cooldown) due to having Icy Propulsion. But this is just me theory-crafting without having any tangible numbers. Race differences are ridiculously small, however, and there's almost no difference between most of them.