Frost Mage Guide - Talents, Rotations, Races & More

Playable Races

Alliance - Human, Gnome & Skyborne

Horde - Orc, Troll & Undead

Recommended Races

Gnome is quite possibly the best race in the game and the one you want to pick as Alliance. Eureka! reduces the cost of your next 3 abilities and gives them 10% increased damage. Expansive Mind gives you 5% more maximum mana. Escape Artist grants you immunity to Roots and Snares.

Troll is great since you’ll be fighting a lot of beasts in the early game and they have 5% increased damage to beasts. Their Berserking buff grants you 10% casting speed for 10 seconds and they also have Rapid Regeneration which allows you to restore 50% of your health every 3 minutes.

Orc is the other competitive horde race choice. Blood Fury boosts your Spell Power by 10% for 15 seconds. Shatter Curse grants immunity to Curses, Banes and reduces Magical Damage taken. Hardiness decreases stuns by 20%

For every race's full ability list, check our racial abilities guide.

Single Target Rotation

The primary Skills you’ll use are Frostbolt, Ice Lance, Fire Blast & Frost Nova. The single target rotation really can be very simple:

1. Spam Frostbolt.
2. If they ever get frozen from Frostbite throw an Ice Lance at them.
3. When they get close use Frost Nova to freeze them and hit them with an Ice Lance.
4. You can finish enemies off with Fire Blast or just keep running and using Ice Lance if needed.

The entire idea is to keep mobs chilled so they barely get to you before they die. You take Frostbite, Ice Shards & Shatter so you can hit them with huge instant cast crits using Ice Lance when they're frozen.

You can check how powerful Frost Mage is in WoW Forever in our tier list rankings.

Visit your Class Trainer often to get your new skills, levels 10 & 20 specifically have some incredible new abilities and upgrades to your current ones.

You're a Bakery and Drinking fountain! Always make your own food and water to prepare for your sessions. Mages get a tremendous benefit of not having to buy these consumes.

A Mages Favorite Stats are Intellect and Spirit. Intellect increases your maximum Mana and increases your Spell Critical Strike Chance. Spirit increases your Health and Mana regeneration when you're out of combat. Stamina is also great while leveling especially if going the AOE spec, having more health can be the difference between life and death quite often are you're learning.

In group play you'll be pulling more than 1 mob at a time allowing you to get huge AOE damage from your Flamestrike, Arcane Explosion, Cone of Cold & Blizzard. Keep in mind early on most tanks will have a hard time getting threat on multiple mobs though, you want to play this by ear and make sure you aren't driving them crazy every pull.

You may be asked to sheep mobs regularly in dungeons. You can also take it upon yourself to sheep a distant caster mob that's being annoying or use it as a way for your party to get out of trouble. Speaking of trouble don't forget about the defensive power of Blizzard and Frost Nova, If things are ever getting spicy you can slow down a group of mobs with Blizzard or freeze then in place with your Frost Nova to allow your party to retreat.

Get ready for everyone to ask you for food and water. It's always wise to keep several stacks on you in preparation of this if you're heading off to join a group for any activity.

Wand

For all casters the #1 tip for leveling is to obtain wands early and upgrade them often. Enchanters can make Lesser and Greater Magic wands that deal incredible DPS for their level range. Either get the Enchanting Profession and make your own or head over to the auction house to buy one!

Loot has changed in WoW forever and the location of great wands may be different from original Classic. Here's a quick rundown of wands that you can look out for to stay on top of it:

• Level 5 - Lesser Magic Wand, 11.3 DPS (Tailoring or Auction House)
• Level 13 - Greater Magic Wand, 17.5 DPS (Tailoring or Auction House)
• Level 18 - Gravestone Scepter, 29 DPS (Blackfathom Villainy Quest in Ashenvale)

While the Gravestone Scepter is technically available at level 18, the dungeon itself has enemies in the high level 20 range. You likely won't be able to obtain it this early unless you have a group of high level guildies or friends just carry you through the dungeon. Aside form new wands being available up to level 30 in WoW Forever this is likely the best wand you'll be able to obtain in the BETA.

Other

Keep Arcane Intellect and Frost Armor up at all times!

You can make portals to other cities for payment, and can even sell your Conjured Food and Water to people in town.

Auto Shoot Wand Macro

#showtooltip Shoot
/cast !Shoot