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Mage Frost PVE Guide

1. Talents 

2. Glyphs

Major Glyphs

  1. Glyph of Frostbolt
  2. Glyph of Eternal Water
  3. Glyph of Molten Armor

Minor Glyphs

  1. Glyph of Slow Fall
  2. Glyph of the Penguin
  3. Glyph of Arcane Intellect

3. Stats

Hit: 11%, 289 (10%, 263 if Draenei in your group)

Haste: 1000+

Spellpower: 3000+

Crit: 30%+

4. Enchants

  1. Head: Arcanum of Burning Mysteries
  2. Shoulders: Greater Inscription of the Storm
  3. Back: Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed
  4. Chest: Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats
  5. Wrists: Enchant Bracers - Superior Spellpower
  6. Hands: Hyperspeed Accelerators
  7. Waist: Eternal Belt Buckle
  8. Legs: Brilliant Spellthread
  9. Feet: Nitro Boosts
  10. Main hand: Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spellpower

5. Gems

Meta gem: Chaotic Skyflare Diamond

Red gems: Runed Cardinal Ruby

Yellow gems: Veiled Ametrine / Potent Ametrine

Blue gems: Purified Dreadstone

6. BIS

7. Macros

Mage frost macros

8. Food and flasks

Food: Fish Feast

Flask: Flask of the Frost Wyrm

Potion: Potion of Wild Magic / Potion of Speed (1–2 seconds before the pull, second potions use with a trinket proc)

9. Professions

Priority list:

  1. Engineering
  2. Tailoring
  3. Jewelcrafting 

10. Rotation

Cooldowns

Opener

  1. Icy Veins + Mirror Image
  2. Start casting Frostbolt

Priority

Note (advanced): If you’re comfortable with Frost mechanics, you can save Cold Snap to reset Deep Freeze instead, letting you use it much earlier again.

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