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Frost Mage

  • Rated Battlegrounds
  • 4 players
  • Last Updated: 19 hours ago

See what 4 high-rated Rated Battlegrounds characters are using, based on the PvPLeaderboard rankings available for this update.

Where these stats come from

Starting at the top of the rankings, we work down until we have everything we need for 50 characters.

A character is ignored if their Battle.net profile is missing or incomplete, if they aren’t max level, or if their talents don’t fit the current talent tree.

Use this as a starting point, then adjust your setup for your bracket, comp, rating, and matchup.

Sources: PvPLeaderboard; Battle.net

Players

Lawuera

Lawuera

<Mancoboys>Quel'Thalas (us)

Talents (Class)

Temporal Realignment
Dragon's Breath
Shimmer
Ice Ward
Ice Nova
Ring of Frost
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (Specialization)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Frigid Focus
White Out
Lonely Winter
Glacial Shatter

Talents (Hero)

Shifting Shards
Slippery Slinging
Reactive Barrier

Talents (PvP)

Master Shepherd
Ethereal Blink
Overpowered Barrier
Ангелема

Ангелема

<Не Надо Паники>Gordunni (eu)

Talents (Class)

Temporal Realignment
Dragon's Breath
Improved Blink
Ice Ward
Ice Nova
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (Specialization)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Frigid Focus
Wintertide
Summon Water Elemental

Talents (Hero)

Shifting Shards
Slippery Slinging
Reactive Barrier

Talents (PvP)

Ice Wall
Frost Bomb
Snowdrift
Volvicmage

Volvicmage

<Snake Eyes>Archimonde (eu)

Talents (Class)

Time Walk
Dragon's Breath
Improved Blink
Ice Ward
Ice Nova
Ring of Frost
Spatial Manipulation

Talents (Specialization)

Blizzard
Glacial Bulwark
Frigid Focus
Wintertide
Lonely Winter

Talents (Hero)

Shifting Shards
Slippery Slinging
Reactive Barrier

Talents (PvP)

Ice Wall
Master Shepherd
Improved Mass Invisibility

Stat Priority

Values are relative to the highest stat. The stat priority for a Frost Mage is
Versatility > Haste > Critical Strike > Mastery

Best Races

The best race for a Frost Mage for the Alliance is Night Elf and for the Horde is ?

Best Items

Trinket Combinations

50% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 206 primary stat for 20 sec.

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

25% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Use: Increases primary stat by 244 for 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Venomous Aspirant's Insignia of Alacrity

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to grant 206 primary stat for 20 sec.

25% of the best players use this combination
Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Venomous Aspirant's Badge of Ferocity

Use: Increases primary stat by 244 for 15 sec. (1 Min Cooldown)

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Venomous Aspirant's Medallion

Use: Removes all movement impairing effects and all effects which cause loss of control of your character. (2 Min Cooldown)

Best Sockets

Values are based on the total amount of sockets of all players. The most popular socket for a Frost Mage is Flawless Quick Lapis
Flawless Quick Lapis

Flawless Quick Lapis

45%

+16 Versatility & +7 Haste

Cognitive Heliotrope

Cognitive Heliotrope

27%

+23 Primary Stat and opponent's failed interrupt attempts grant Precognition

Flawless Versatile Peridot

Flawless Versatile Peridot

18%

+16 Haste & +7 Versatility

Best Embellishments

Embellishments are specific abilities that can be added onto a piece of gear or weapons to add an equip bonus. The most popular embellishment for a Frost Mage is Devouring Banding on a Waist item
Devouring Banding

Devouring Banding

50%

Equip: Your damaging spells and abilities can cause you to heed the whispers and fire a Devouring Bolt at your target, dealing 2,674 Cosmic damage. This bolt devours their strength, seizing 91 of your highest secondary stat for you for 10 sec.

  • Waist50%
  • Feet50%
Prismatic Focusing Iris

Prismatic Focusing Iris

25%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate the Iris, firing a focused beam of light at your target and dealing 1,152 Arcane damage every second for 4 sec. Each unique gem color you have socketed empowers the Iris, causing it to deal 1% additional damage per.

  • Ring 1100%
Arcanoweave Lining

Arcanoweave Lining

25%

Equip: Your spells and abilities have a chance to draw in a mana wyrm that will empower you and an ally with Arcanoweave Insight, increasing your Intellect by 44 and your ally's Primary Stat by 11.

  • Feet100%

Best Enchants

Percentages use the 4 characters in this dataset. A value above 100% means the enchant appears more than 4 times, usually because the same enchant is applied to both rings.
Feet icon

Feet

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

25%

Enchant Boots - Farstrider's Hunt

Legs icon

Legs

Sunfire Silk Spellthread

25%

+41 Intellect & +115 Stamina

Main Hand icon

Main Hand

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

75%

Enchant Weapon - Acuity of the Ren'dorei

Ring icon

Ring

Enchant Ring - Amani Mastery

50%

Enchant Ring - Amani Mastery

Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury

50%

Enchant Ring - Nature's Fury

Talents

The new talent system is not as straight-forward as the talent systems from previous expansions. Many talents are situational, and choosing your talents should be done based on the content you are doing. This heat map will show what talents are must-picks, which ones are situational, and which ones are rarely chosen.

Colors

The colors indicate talent popularity. The percentages show how many of the 4 characters in this dataset selected each talent.

  • 90% - 100% (best)
  • 50% - 89% (good)
  • 20% - 49% (situational)
  • 0% - 19% (unpopular)

Talent Tree

Talent Tree Background
Ice Barrier
100%
Alter Time
100%
Ice Block
100%
Temporal Realignment
100%
Master of Time
100%
2 / 2
Winter's Protection
100%
2 / 2
Frost Conditioning
25%
Arcane Warding
100%
2 / 2
Inspired Intellect
100%
Mirror Image
25%
Spellsteal
100%
Quick Witted
100%
Dragon's Breath
100%
Remove Curse
100%
Improved Conjuration
0%
1 / 2
Improved Spellsteal
0%
Improved Blink
100%
Improved Counterspell
100%
Overflowing Energy
50%
Improved Remove Curse
0%
Greater Invisibility
100%
Ice Ward
100%
Captured Thoughts
0%
Tome of Rhonin
100%
Improved Warding
0%
Tome of Antonidas
100%
Incantation of Swiftness
0%
1 / 2
Master of Escape
75%
Charm of Aegwynn
100%
Brainstorm
100%
Flow of Time
100%
Mana Confluence
0%
Charm of Medivh
100%
Permafrost Bauble
100%
Ice Nova
100%
Time Manipulation
100%
Ring of Frost
75%
Energized Barriers
100%
Mass Invisibility
75%
Barrier Diffusion
75%
Ice Cold
0%
Spatial Manipulation
100%
Improved Ice Barrier
100%

Spellslinger

Hero class image
Splinterstorm
100%
Spellfrost Teachings
100%
Controlled Instincts
100%
Signature Spell
100%
Archmage's Wrath
100%
Slippery Slinging
100%
Reactive Barrier
100%
Splintering Orbs
100%
Augury Abounds
100%
Force of Will
100%
Splintering Sorcery
100%
Polished Focus
100%
Infused Splinters
100%
Shifting Shards
100%
Ice Lance
100%
Blizzard
100%
Fingers of Frost
100%
Frostbite
100%
Icicles
100%
Flurry
100%
Glacial Bulwark
100%
Frozen Orb
100%
Brain Freeze
100%
Piercing Cold
50%
Ray of Frost
100%
Everlasting Frost
100%
Permafrost Lances
75%
Frozen Touch
100%
Splitting Ice
100%
Flash Freeze
75%
Frigid Focus
100%
Winter's Blessing
100%
Freezing Rain
100%
Cone of Frost
0%
Fractured Frost
100%
Improved Shatter
100%
Deep Shatter
0%
Wintertide
100%
Glacial Attunement
100%
2 / 2
Heart of Ice
50%
Rimecaster
100%
1 / 2
Freezing Winds
0%
Improved Flurry
100%
Glacial Assault
25%
Crystalline Refraction
50%
Lonely Winter
100%
Glacial Shatter
25%
Hailstones
0%
Thermal Void
100%
Glaciate
100%
Comet Storm
0%
Hand of Frost
100%
4 / 4

Best PvP Talents

Ice Wall

Ice Wall

75%

Conjures an Ice Wall 30 yards long that obstructs line of sight. The wall has 30% of your maximum health and lasts up to 15 sec.

Overpowered Barrier

Overpowered Barrier

50%

Your barriers absorb 60% more damage and have an additional effect, but last 4 sec. Prismatic Barrier If the barrier is fully consumed, gain Time Warp for 6 sec.

Master Shepherd

Master Shepherd

50%

While an enemy player is affected by your Polymorph or Mass Polymorph, your movement speed is increased by 25% and your Versatility is increased by 12%. Additionally, Polymorph and Mass Polymorph no longer heal enemies.

Improved Mass Invisibility

Improved Mass Invisibility

50%

The cooldown of Mass Invisibility is reduced by 3 min and it can affect allies in combat.

Ethereal Blink

Ethereal Blink

25%

Blink and Shimmer apply Slow at 100% effectiveness to all enemies you Blink through. For each enemy you Blink through, the cooldown of Blink and Shimmer are reduced by 1 sec, up to 5 sec.

Frost Bomb

Frost Bomb

25%

Places a Frost Bomb on the target. After 5 sec, the bomb explodes, dealing 3,936 Frost damage to the target and 1,959 Frost damage to all other enemies within 10 yards. All affected targets are slowed by 50% for 8 sec. If Frost Bomb is dispelled before it explodes, gain a charge of Brain Freeze.

Snowdrift

Snowdrift

25%

Summon a strong Blizzard that surrounds you for 6 sec that slows enemies by 70% and deals 85 Frost damage every 1 sec. Enemies that are caught in Snowdrift for 2 sec consecutively become Frozen in ice, stunned for 4 sec.