Mage specializationDPS

Frost Mage

Frost is one of the three Mage talent trees in WoW Forever. Its tree has 19 talents: 2 new, 5 changed, 7 moved and 5 same as in Classic. Our best-in-slot (BiS) list treats it as a DPS spec.

Class: Mage
Talents: 19
New in Forever: 2
Abilities: 11

Frost talents

The 19 talents of the Frost tree in the beta, row by row. Each one opens its own page: what every rank does, its requirements and what changes from Classic.

Try Frost in the calculator

What changes in Forever

What is new and changed for Frost compared with Classic Era: our change list, its talent tree and its abilities.

In our change list

Our change list has nothing specific to Frost yet. What the beta client changes in its tree and its abilities is right below.

Class-wide changes

They affect every Mage, whatever tree they play:

Arcane Missiles

New talents

Ice Lance
Deals 28 Frost damage to an enemy target. Deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets.
Fingers of Frost
Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 2 spells cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.

Changed or moved talents

Frost WardingChanges: text.
Elemental PrecisionChanges: ranks, text, numbers.
PermafrostChanges: position, text, numbers.
FrostbiteChanges: position.
Frost ChannelingChanges: position.
Improved BlizzardChanges: text, numbers.
Ice BlockChanges: position.
ShatterChanges: position, ranks, text, numbers.
Improved Cone of ColdChanges: position, text, numbers.
Cold SnapChanges: position, text.
Winter's ChillChanges: text, numbers.
Ice BarrierChanges: text, numbers.

New abilities

Ice Lance

Changed abilities

FrostboltChanges: tooltip.
Frost NovaChanges: tooltip.
BlizzardChanges: tooltip.
Frost WardChanges: tooltip.
Ice BlockChanges: level.
Cone of ColdChanges: tooltip.
Cold SnapChanges: level, tooltip.
Ice BarrierChanges: tooltip.

Frost abilities

The 11 abilities the beta spellbook groups under Frost, by the level they are learned at. Each one opens its own page with its ranks, cost and changes.

Frost ArmorLv. 1
FrostboltLv. 4
Frost NovaLv. 10
BlizzardLv. 20
Ice LanceTalentLv. 20
Frost WardLv. 22
Ice BlockTalentLv. 25
Cone of ColdLv. 26
Cold SnapTalentLv. 30
Ice ArmorLv. 30
Ice BarrierTalentLv. 40

See Frost in the spellbook →

Frost best-in-slot (BiS) gear

The site’s suggestion, not an official list: we score the beta items with our stat weights for each level. The beta is capped at level 30.

Full list by levelLevel 20 Level 30beta Level 40 Level 50 Level 60

Top picks at level 60

Main hand
1. Wraith Bladeitem level 83 · Drops from Maexxna · Naxxramas (Classic data)
2. Brimstone Staffitem level 83 · Two-Hand · Drops from Loatheb · Naxxramas (Classic data)
Head
1. Frostfire Circletitem level 88 · Quest: Frostfire Circlet · Naxxramas (Classic data)
2. Enigma Circletitem level 81 · Quest: Enigma Circlet · Ahn'Qiraj (Classic data)
Chest
1. Frostfire Robeitem level 92 · Quest: Frostfire Robe · Naxxramas (Classic data)
2. Crystal Webbed Robeitem level 85 · Drops from Maexxna · Naxxramas (Classic data)

The two highest-scoring pieces in three slots. It is a forecast: until the beta reaches 60, items and their sources may change.

Full Frost list at level 60 →

Why these weights

Frost: Frostbolt scales very well with spell power (and specific Frost damage), Shatter and Ice Shards make crit worth ~10, and hit stays at 12 per 1% (in Classic the cap against bosses was 16%; Blizzard has not given Forever's now that hit is one shared stat). Slightly more stamina than Fire because it is the levelling and dungeon tree.