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I realize sims show Frost doing fairly well (fire profile is showing 350k and Frost 348k) but it seems the community believes Frost to be bad - though some say you can play Frost as long as you aren't pushing content. Are we really as bad as people seem to think? I'm fairly new to the mage and have...

Not sure on the validity of the relic itself, but just wanted to point out that, Chilled to the Core is a separate buff that you get on activating Icy Veins, and therefore extending Icy Veins does not extend the duration of Chilled to the Core. Chilled to the Core lasts 20 seconds. It's Thermal Voi...

Unstable magic don't do a things with icicle. I take Blake Ice and I have generally one per 5 icicles. They're easy to see as they leave a black trail. I try to combo BF-flurry with GS, for shatter. I don't play with Ice Nova as I choose Splitting Ice. It's even more worth with the recent change. Fr...

Will 7.1 increase the max Ilvl? Because it seems that 7.2 will bring it to 920 but I don't know if 7.1 will do anything to that regard. I don't know. I suppose it's most likely that it will give gearing possibility for non mythic raid player. But by the time 7.1 go live, we will be at 34/34 artifac...

On Glacial Spike value : The mains problem actually is that SimC profile use gear/artifact corresponding to the raid tier. So artifact trait are incomplete so choice have been made. Like I say in another post, taking Ice XI and Black Ice is a good choice with Glacial Spike but not for other setup. L...

You read it wrong.
There's only 1 Molten Armor spell. The level restrict and all are most likely Tooltip bug or something.

The important things here is that it's value will be decrease from +15% crit to +10% because Fire might be too powerful in 7.1 gear.

Are relic for http://www.wowhead.com/spell=195345/frozen-veins" target="_blank too good ? I ask this question because, with our gear level, in raid and maybe mythic dungeon, uptime on Icy Veins is important. So it end-up that relic that boost this trait up to 3s per FB crit is the best choice. Examp...

In T19P, the *P* is for pre-raid if I'm not wrong. For information, the choice of artifact trait for a specific talent comp can have more impact than optimising stat from gear. I began to think that we will need to test with all artifact trait (except the last that buff only damage) to see how tunin...

Also for Frost, even if I still didn't have the emote about portal, I found that the quest is Yes only if you have the XP/rep buff from ghost PNJ in dalaran

Beware with the roll. I got AK4 yesterday and this moring I got the frost quest YES but I haven't the emote and I tested all the portail (with Frost staff) : nothing. I will edit after reset in 10 minutes to tell if it work or if I still have to wait. edit : I will have to wait. Daily roll is now NO...

Another wild thinking of me, this time its about the micro-management aspect of the Frost Spec. It's something that never really strike me before the discussion about Brain Freeze & Flurry and some trick that can be done with it. I ended with how well designed it was designed. I just followed this i...

Ray of Frost is a spell that trade damage increase for a single target burst spell.
You can swap target and even use Ice Floes to move a little.

For the comparison with Fire spec, it's a matter of class balance. Except if there's a really big problem, don't expect too much, if any, change before 7.1

Here's the 2 quest ID related for Hidden Appearance : 44384 - Ebonchill - http://www.wowhead.com/quest=44384/daily-portal-event-roll" target="_blank 43828 - Aluneth - http://www.wowhead.com/quest=43828/sheep-summon-daily-roll" target="_blank I also find this daily quest : http://www.wowhead.com/que...

Here's the 2 quest ID related for Hidden Appearance : 44384 - Ebonchill - http://www.wowhead.com/quest=44384/daily-portal-event-roll" target="_blank 43828 - Aluneth - http://www.wowhead.com/quest=43828/sheep-summon-daily-roll" target="_blank I also find this daily quest : http://www.wowhead.com/ques...

Suramar is convenient, but I have my hearth set there I dont have to bother with riding out, across the river, and then down the tunnel to get to the portals. Outside of Suramar, I find 2 other portail relatively useful : - Aszuna. The destination is near the border between Aszuna et Val'sharah, th...

The other important trick with flurry is to use it to shatter frostbolt. a cast sequence of Frostbolt->flurry -> Icelance will result in all 3 benefiting from WC (at reasonably long ranges) you need to cast it in the lag compensation for each spell to leave at the same time. I really like how Flurr...

edit: result of my test !! Winter's chill effect is applied by every hit of Flurry. The effect last for 1 second after the last hit. This create enough delay so any Ice Lance cast just after Flurry will benefice of it. I tested casting Flurry just a slow spell. it only work, partially, with Comet St...

Fire mage hidden appearance is no longer a random drop in Suramar, and yet everywhere I look online everyone is too caught up in the Arcane artifact to care. I've tried searching various sites for the fire artifact hidden appearance and have come up short. Perhaps it has to do with how much researc...

It would be nice if Thermal void extended chilled to the core duration. I do agree that bone chilling feels awkward because frost is about spamming ice lances and you are not going to keep bone chilling stacked during a long period of burning thru FoF They give a 20s duration for Chilled to the cor...

1- wasting stack of FoF. Since I obtain the third stack, I don't think I lose that much of proc. Maybe 1 or 2 proc on a whole boss fight. 2- Ebonchill power the power of our artifact don't come from http://www.wowhead.com/spell=214634/ebonbolt" target="_blank but from http://www.wowhead.com/spell=19...