Frost Mage Raid Guide

• The main feature of the Spellslinger hero talent tree is the addition of a new passive spell, Frost Splinter, and your interaction with it. Frost Splinter is a projectile that applies a debuff that stacks and deals frost damage over time.

• You can trigger it with a variety of ways:
  • Splintering Sorcery triggers it whenever you consume Winter's Chill or Fingers of Frost.
  • Augury Abounds causes Icy Veins to conjure 8 Frost Splinters and procs an additional one whenever you conjure a Frost Splinters during the effect.
  • Splintering Orbs allows your Frozen Orb to conjure them.
  • Shifting Shards grants your Shifting Power the ability to fire a barrage of Frost Splinters at random enemies around you.
  • Signature Spell conjures additional Frost Splinter whenever you consume Winter's Chill wtih Glacial Spike.

• On top of that, there are a bunch of passive interactions that grant you some damage, cooldown reductions and other stuff:
  • Controlled Instincts makes your Frost Splinters splash if they hit a target under the effect of Blizzard.
  • Volatile Magic makes embedded Frost Splinters explode whenever they are removed.
  • Spellfrost Teachings grants you a chance to reset the cooldown of Frozen Orb and increase its damage from the direct damage of Frost Splinters.
  • Splinterstorm triggers whenever you have 8 or more embedded Frost Splinters and shatters them all. This deals their remaining periodic damage instantly and has a chance to grant Brain Freeze.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Discover all talents that significantly alter your gameplay within the Spec and Class Talent trees. This section gives a concise overview of these talents and their applications but for a more detailed look check out the Rotation and Deep Dive sections below.

Spec Tree

• Fingers of Frost
  • Causes your next Ice Lance to deal damage as if the target is frozen.
• Shatter
  • Greatly multiplies the critical strike chance of your spells against frozen targets.
• Glacial Spike
  • Allows you to consume Icicles and deal massive amount of damage to your target.
  • Requires 5 Icicles.
• Splitting Ice
  • Makes your Ice Lance and Glacial Spike hit a second nearby target.
• Icy Veins
  • Your main offensive cooldown.
  • Grants 20% haste and summons a water elemental which also increases your frost damage by 15% with the Frigid Empowerment buff.
  • Thermal Void allows Ice Lance and Glacial Spike to extend Icy Veins duration.

Class Tree

• Quick Witted
  • Makes your interrupt spell have a lower cooldown if you successfully landed it and be the best interrupt in the game.
• Accumulative Shielding
  • Recharges your barrier's cooldown faster while the shield persists.
• Ice Cold
  • Paired with Cryo-Freeze functionally makes you immune for the duration of Ice Block without losing ability to cast compared to normal Ice Block. There are very few situations where this doesn't work.
• Shimmer
  • Allows you to blink during casting, your main mobility feature and should be made use of at all times.

Hero Talents

• Imbued Warding
  • Better survivability option than the other talent.
• Elemental Affinity
  • Outperforms Flame and Frost
• Severe Temperatures
  • Outperforms Thermal Conditioning

Opener

• Your goal is to maximize extending your Icy Veins while not overcapping on procs such as Brain Freeze and Fingers of Frost. Below, you can see an example of how your opener may look like using our recommended Frostfire talent build:

• Opener may vary depending on Splintering Cold procs which will lead to earlier Glacial Spike cast.
• Always keep an eye on your Brain Freeze or Fingers of Frost procs and make sure to spend them and not overcap.
• Remember that Ice Lance with Fingers of Frost doesn't consume Winter's Chill on the target.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Icy Veins on cooldown.
2. Cast Flurry if you have less than 5 Icicles and either
   • Your target has no Winter's Chill up and your previous cast was a Glacial Spike, Frostfire Bolt or a Comet Storm.
   • You have both Excess Frost and Excess Fire active.
3. Cast Comet Storm on cooldown.
4. Cast Glacial Spike whenever you have 5 Icicles.
5. Cast Ray of Frost if there is 1 stack of Winter's Chill present on the target.
6. Cast Frozen Orb on cooldown.
7. Cast Shifting Power whenever all of the following spells are on cooldown for longer than 10 seconds: Icy Veins, Frozen Orb, Ray of Frost, Comet Storm.
8. Cast Ice Lance if you have Fingers of Frost up or Winter's Chill is on the target.
9. Cast Frostfire Bolt.

Opener

• Your goal is to maximize extending your Icy Veins while not overcapping on procs such as Brain Freeze and Fingers of Frost. Below, you can see an example of how your opener may look like using our recommended Frostfire talent build:

• Cleave for Frostfire is considered to be a fight with up to 2 targets.
• Cleave rotation is slightly different to single target although the core idea is still the same.
• This is just an example of the opener as it may heavily vary depending on how many procs you can get.

Priority List

This is a general priority you aim to maintain throughout the fight.

1. Cast Icy Veins on cooldown.
2. Cast Frostfire Bolt if Icy Veins duration left is more than 9 seconds and you have less than 5 stacks of Death's Chill.
3. Cast Flurry if your target has no Winter's Chill and your previous cast was a Glacial Spike.
   • If your main target already has Winter's Chill up, cast it on the secondary target.
4. Cast Flurry if you have less than 5 Icicles and either
   • Your target has no Winter's Chill up and your previous cast was a Frostfire Bolt or a Comet Storm.
   • You have both Excess Frost and Excess Fire active.
5. Cast Comet Storm on cooldown.
6. Cast Frozen Orb on cooldown.
7. Cast Glacial Spike whenever you have 5 Icicles.
8. Cast Ray of Frost if there is 1 stack of Winter's Chill present on the target.
9. Cast Frostfire Bolt if you have Frostfire Empowerment active and don't have neither Excess Frost or Excess Fire.
10. Cast Shifting Power whenever all of the following spells are on cooldown for longer than 10 seconds: Icy Veins, Frozen Orb, Ray of Frost, Comet Storm.
11. Cast Ice Lance if you have Fingers of Frost up or Winter's Chill is on the target.
12. Cast Frostfire Bolt.

Opener

• Below, you can see an example of how your opener looks like using the recommended Frostfire spec in AoE with 8 enemies:

• AoE for Frostfire is considered to be a fight with 3+ targets.
• The opener may slightly vary depending on the amount of targets you fight and if you have Time Warp or not. If so, follow priority list and change accordingly. In general, it just means that you may cast Blizzard and Frozen Orb 1 or 2 extra times in your opener.
• AoE rotation can be overwhelming and bloated with many procs, just make sure to cast Blizzard, Frozen Orb and Comet Storm as often as possible.

Priority List

1. Cast Icy Veins on cooldown.
2. Cast Frostfire Bolt if Icy Veins duration left is more than 9 seconds and you have less than 10 stacks of Death's Chill.
3. Cast Cone of Cold if your previous spell was Comet Storm.
4. Cast Frozen Orb on cooldown.
5. Cast Ice Lance if you have 2 stacks of Excess Fire and Comet Storm is ready.
6. Cast Blizzard on cooldown.
7. Cast Comet Storm on cooldown if Cone of Cold is ready or not going to be available for the next 10 seconds or more.
8. Cast Glacial Spike whenever you have 5 Icicles.
9. Cast Flurry if either
   • You have both Excess Frost and Excess Fire active.
   • Your target has no Winter's Chill up.
10. Cast Frostfire Bolt if you have Frostfire Empowerment active and no Excess Fire.
11. Cast Shifting Power whenever Icy Veins and Comet Storm are on cooldown for more than 10 seconds.
12. Cast Ice Lance if you have Fingers of Frost or your target has Winter's Chill up.
13. Cast Frostfire Bolt.

Offensive Cooldown Usage

Boss Tips

• Use your Shimmer and Alter Time to get away with Spew Oil quickly and not spawn it close to the boss.
• Use your defensives whenever you're affected by Incendiary Fire.