Frost Mage DPS Macros and Addons — The War Within (11.0.5)

Weak Auras is the most important AddOn for players seeking to master their class and take their gameplay to new heights. If you aspire to do any Mythic raiding, this is the most powerful tool in your kit. Weak Auras allow you to display helpful visual cues anywhere on your screen, which enables you to play better. Most players use it to track their trinket procs, highlight on-screen displays of their most important cooldowns, or track the timers of boss mechanics. It is highly customizable and makes keeping track of your procs and cooldowns effortless. The drawback of Weak Auras is that it has a bit of a learning curve and is not the most user-friendly. Weak Auras allow you to import other players' data directly into their UI; however, most players choose to simply import other people's Weak Auras rather than make their own. Weak Auras can be used to create just about anything you can imagine, as it is an LUA scripting tool (essentially an AddOn that creates other AddOns in-game). This is by far the most essential AddOn for players looking to step into Mythic raiding.

This aura will let you know when Splinterstorm has activated and will be firing within the next 1-1.7 seconds, based on the distance to the target. Here. Many thanks to Devi in the Altered Time Discord for whipping this up for us.

This is basically mandatory to play Spellslinger in any form of optimal capacity.

Boss Mods are helpful pre-made timers that allow you to keep track of the noteworthy mechanics in any given encounter. Usually, they come equipped with helpful prompts, visuals, and sounds to ensure you do not miss anything important.

BigWigs is the best boss mod available currently. It is extremely customizable, allowing you to change what is displayed on an individual boss level and how boldly you want each alert customized. BigWigs is typically the most accurate and periodically updated of the available Boss Mods. It does not require any setup at all, though there is a dizzying array of options and customizations should you wish to personalize your setup.

Deadly Boss Mods is an alternative to BigWigs, though it usually is not as accurate early in the patch. Most of the alerts are loud and flashy by default, making this a potentially good choice for players who have very little experience in a raid environment.

Nameplates are essential for allowing you to easily keep track of basic debuffs and quickly select new targets in combat. While ElvUI nameplates do come standard with the AddOn, they are a little limited and occasionally buggy. Listed below are some good alternatives.

KUI Nameplates offer the highest degree of customization and accuracy. For example, you can easily configure the nameplates to enlarge and change color when a target reaches a certain percentage of health, which can be very helpful for classes with executes. They always correctly display your debuffs, and their click box is very accurate. Some setup is required, although it is very simple and straightforward.

TidyPlates are not quite as customizable or accurate as KUI, but they are an improvement over the default UI or the ElvUI nameplates. They are also great out of the box, requiring little to no setup at all, which is a plus for some players.

Damage meters display a variety of helpful data about what is taking place in combat, from your current DPS (or HPS) to the number of interrupts each player successfully used.

Skada is a lightweight damage meter that is exceptionally accurate. It does not take up much memory, which could cause you to lag, and displays a wide range of helpful data. This is the recommended damage meter if you log your raid data to WarcraftLogs.

Details is a more heavyweight damage meter, taking up quite a bit of memory. It offers extensive in-game analysis tools compared to Skada; however, it allows you to break down your data in depth without leaving the game. This is the recommended damage meter if you do not log your raid data.

These AddOns are just small trimmings that might make your life a little easier.

Decursive adds a small grid representing your party or raid to your UI. They are simple boxes with no actual information aside from if they are afflicted with a specific debuff type your class can dispel. You simply have to click the box that turned purple to use Remove Curse on a teammate.

If you are not satisfied with the default combat text, this AddOn is an alternative that allows you to heavily customize your scrolling combat text. Quite a bit of setup is required.

DeathNote displays the last several deaths for each of your party or raid members. For 30 seconds before their death, a complete timestamp of their combat log is displayed, showing their current health, what heals they received, what buffs and debuffs they had, whether they used their cooldowns, etc. This AddOn helps break down your death as well as finding out whether that guy did use his healthstone.

Whenever one of your abilities comes off cooldown, this AddOn flashes a large transparent version of the ability in the center of your screen, alerting you that it is off cooldown. You can easily configure what is displayed or use it by default.

This AddOn allows you to set up text assignments that are displayed to everyone else in the raid group that has the AddOn. Extremely beneficial for raiding guilds, particularly when assigning jobs like interrupt orders, or what players are soaking in what quadrants of the room, etc.

• #showtooltip
• /stopcasting
• /cast Blink

Pressing Blink will now cancel your current spellcast and causes you to immediately Blink. Note that this should not be used with Shimmer as it will unnecessarily cancel your current cast.

• #showtooltip
• /stopcasting
• /cancelaura Ice Block
• /cast Ice Block

Cancels your current cast and immediately puts you in Ice Block. Pressing Ice Block again will cancel the effect. Not recommended if you spam your buttons.

• /cancelaura Ice Block

If you are a button spammer, you can put this on a separate keybind as your Ice Block, allowing you to cancel your Ice Block early if you so desire.

• /cancelaura Alter Time

You can use the above macro to cancel Alter Time if you do not want to be teleported back to the location/health where you were when you initially cast Alter Time.

• #showtooltip
• /use [@cursor]Remove Curse

This will remove curses on whatever unit you are mousing over.

• #showtooltip
• /use [@cursor]Blizzard

This will automatically place Blizzard at your mouse cursor when pressed, without having to actually click the ground. It should be noted that the cursor condition can be applied to any ground target effect, as seen in the Freeze macro below.

• #showtooltip
• /cast [@cursor]Freeze

This macro will let you put the Freeze ability of your Water Elemental on your action bar, and have it cast instantly at your cursor location rather than having to click.

• /cast Icy Veins
• /cast [@cursor]Freeze

This one allows you to hit Icy Veins a second time to Freeze at your cursor, which is extremely strong in Mythic+.

These macros allow you to manage your Water Elemental's movement and attacks.

• /petattack

This orders your Water Elemental to attack your target.

• /petfollow

This orders your Water Elemental to follow you.

• /petmoveto

This orders your Water Elemental to move to a location of your choice. Moving your Water Elemental to a central location can be very helpful, as the Water Elemental sometimes stands very far away from the boss and wastes time chasing the boss if the boss moves.