What you will find here
- Below you will find a discussion of Frost Talent selection, Azerite rankings and priorities, and a discussion of stat weights
What has changed in 8.0?
- Mastery now determines icicles damage based on spell power and is generated on Frostbolt and Flurry casts.
Stat Weights/Priorities
- Getting Crit early on will be your main priority. The other stats are HIGHLY interchangeable depending on gear and will need to be simmed for exact weights
Please sim yourself, I can't stress this enough. This spec is largely a balancing act around Crit.
Azerite
Each trait sorted by ilvl.
This sim information can be found here: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html#mage ... =patchwerk
TL:DR: Thunderous Blast is mainly from quest gear and Dagger in the Back isin't always ideal.
Ideal setup would be to aim for Tidal Surge, Rezan's Fury, and Unstable Catalyst
Trinket List [ilvl listed]
This sim can be found here: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html#mage ... =patchwerk
TL:DR: Most of the dungeon trinkets are super close just be sure to sim!
Make sure to be careful not to have 2 **ON USE** trinkets, it will decrease the value of one of them.
Try to get the world boss trinket if you can!
Sim yourself for other variations of trinkets, this is just a quick glance!
Racial Advantages
This sim can be found here: https://bloodmallet.com/index.html#mage ... =patchwerk
Talents
Tier 1 : Level 15
- Bone Chilling is the optimal talent, Water Elemental doesn't do too much but Lonely Winter doesn't buff Glacial Spike and more.
- Shimmer or Ice Floes choose your own fate.
- Incanter's Flow is the best mainly because rune of power doesn't give us much reason to take it.
- Ebonbolt is the go to with Frozen Touch being super close however, Ebonbolt pulls ahead slightly in the end.
- Whatever your heart desires
- Comet Storm is the go-to. Splitting Ice should be used when you can take advantage of constant cleave and cometstorm can't hit multiple targets..
- Probably Ray of Frost.... Glacial Spike
Rotation
Optimal Spell Usage
Opener
- (Pre-Pull) - Frostbolt
(Cooldowns) - Icy Veins,Racials,Trinkets
Frozen Orb
Comet Storm
- (Example of spell usage)
Ice Lance if Fingers of Frost proc is present. Or after flurry is used and have low icicle count (1-3).
Glacial Spike if Brain Freeze proc is present (That means sitting on 5 icicles if you don't have a proc).
Frostbolt ->until Fingers of Frost or Brainfreeze proc.
Ebonbolt Is used only when looking for a Brainfreeze proc for Glacial spike.
Example: At 5 icicles and no brainfreeze
After reaching 3 or 4 icicles, you can hold your Brainfreeze proc for Glacial Spike
Changelog
8/17 - Updated for 8.0/WIP
If you have anything you want added or I could do better let me know