Change Of Pace Build For Mages In Patch 3.3
When all you’ve got is a two button rotation, things can get a little dull. And at least with the build below you can go right from leveling directly to raiding for at least part of the time. You might still want to go arcane on Boss fights, but the frost spec has a little more utility on trash. It’s an idea anyway. I actually keep this frost spec on my mage for doing dailies and just random 1v1 killings. In the long run it’s not going to rival the top DPS builds, but it can keep you from going completely numb in the brain from face-rolling arcane. You can see our Arcane spec here: Arcane Mage Build.
Gearing Example
Frost Mage Gear Early Patch 3.3
Talent Build
Frost Mage Talents For Patch 3.3
Glyphs
Major
Minor
- Your choice – has no impact on DPS so suit yourself
Priorities
- Flask = Frost Wyrm
- Food = Fish Feast
- Water Elemental
- Arcane Brilliance
- Focus Magic
- Counterspell (Spell Interrupt)
- Icy Veins
- Mana Gem
- Speed Potion
- Deep Freeze
- Frostbolt (when Target is frozen)
- Fireball (when Brain Freeze is up)
- Cold Snap
- Mirror Image
- Frostbolt
- Evocation
- Ice Lance (when Target is frozen)
- Fire Blast (when moving)
- Ice Lance (when moving)
Damage Sources
When you are leveling you might drop a few points into Frosbite, Imp. Blizzard and permafrost, but its not really necessary. Once you get the perma pet you blow stuff up so fast that slowing them down is a little bit of overkill. It’s about 1,00 DPS less than arcane, but should have more utility for trash pulls, and more buttons to push on Bosses, although using this for progression kills is hardly recommended. But if you are looking for a change of pace from time to time as an off spec, this frost build is about as Dominating as it gets outside of Arcane.