Frost Mage Mists of Pandaria: Remix Guide — The War Within Pre-Patch
On this page, you will learn the best Gems to use for your Frost Mage in Mists of Pandaria: Remix, as well as the best leveling talents and rotation, whether you are leveling in the open world, or through raids and dungeons.
If you were looking for our normal leveling guide for Frost Mage, please check out our Leveling page.
Remix: Mists of Pandaria Guide for Frost Mage
Welcome to our MoP Remix Guide for Frost Mage! This page contains everything you need to know about getting the most out of your Frost Mage in the Patch 10.2.7 special feature, Mists of Pandaria: Remix.
This page is focused only on Frost Mage in MoP Remix. If you want to know more about MoP Remix in general, such as its rewards, check out our dedicated page below.
Best MoP Remix Levelling Talents for Frost Mage
Below, you will find our recommended levelling build and talent pickup order for your Frost Mage in MoP Remix. There are various ways of Levelling in MoP Remix, and we offer some builds for the most relevant ways.
Note that this Levelling section is specific to MoP Remix. For our Dragonflight Levelling Guide for Frost Mage, please check our dedicated Levelling page.
Best MoP Remix Levelling Build for Frost Mage
Dungeon and Open World AoE Levelling Build
This build assumes you are spending a lot of time either AoEing out in the world or running Dungeons. This should have enough power to punch through most content if you have no intention of changing builds; it is simply not the optimal single-target setup.
Raid-Focused Levelling Build
This build is simply more aligned with the single target Frost, as dealt with in most of the rest of the guide.
Best Gems for Frost Mage in MoP Remix
Gems are one of the unique ways to augment your character in MoP Remix, offering offensive, defensive, and utility benefits. On this page, we list the best gems for each type. To learn more about Gems in MoP Remix in general, check out our dedicated page below.
It should be noted that these gems are, by and large, untested territory. The suggestions listed should be taken as just that, suggestions of the author. Given you can freely change gems around, and the fun nature of this event, trying things that you think will work better should be encouraged!
The Tinker gems, in particular, are going to have a healthy mix of DPS and defense. A lot of this is just what feels good to the player. As gear increases, your relative sturdiness is going to increase, and you can likely drop the more defensive-oriented Tinkers.
- Meta Gem: Oblivion Sphere
- Cogwheel Gem: Dark Pact
- Prismatic Gems:
You will have a tremendous amount of stats as you start unlocking all Gem slots, and there is no single best stat to stack. Most of the effects of the Tinkers are Haste-scaled, which will add a fair amount of weight to Haste. Considering that we have nearly infinite stat scaling, keeping things more or less equal is not a terrible decision. Remember that Critical Strike starts to fall off in value by around 33% for Frost, and the Gem effects will benefit from all stats but Mastery. Depending on where you are in your journey, this could mean that Mastery is devalued in comparison to Dragonflight.
- Tinker Gems:
- Enkindle
- Brilliance
- Lightning Rod
- Tinkmaster's Shield
- Sunstrider's Flourish
- Hailstorm
- Slay
- Storm Overload
- Brittle — Mainly for dungeons.
- Explosive Barrage
- Meteor Storm
- Wildfire
- Ankh of Reincarnation
Level by Level Rotation
To keep things simple while Levelling and learning the spec, use the slider to select your level, and watch as the Levelling rotation grows with each level!
Move the slider below to make the guide update to your level!
Levelling Rotation for Frost Mage
Frost Mage Rotation while Levelling
Single Target
- Icy Veins
- Flurry
- Ray of Frost right after a Flurry to let it benefit from Shatter
- Frozen Orb
- Ice Lance when Fingers of Frost is active, or after a Flurry to consume Winter's Chill stacks
- Frostbolt
Aoe
- Cry, and try to tab Frostbolts between everything you have pulled so you can try to maintain distance. Generally a bad idea to try and AoE before level 6.
- Frozen Orb
- Blizzard on cooldown to help reset Frozen Orb
- Ice Nova
- Shifting Power
- Arcane Explosion
Changelog
- 23 Jul. 2024: Updated for The War Within Pre-Patch.
- 14 May 2024: Page added.
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This guide has been written by Kuni, one of the best Frost Mages in the world, who raids in Mortal Desire.
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