Yes that's possible, that's a lot of what ifs though. i always have more damage if i have higher chilled to the core up time and my ice lances hitting harder. I don't know many top frost mages who ignore chilled to the core and treat it as a passive or treating incanter's flow as a passive.
I hang out at the mage discords, and the top frost mages there ignore it.
You can also avoid munching the proc depending on where the BF procs. If you're at the ass end of your frostbolt and bf procs. Just dump your ice lances before going into the bf combo.
if you're chain casting Frostbolt, and you should, you're mid-cast of another frostbolt before you notice your last frostbolt triggered a BF. If you don't respond to that BF immediately, you risk you current frosbolt generating another bf and munching it.
Munching BF is a bigger dps loss than munching FOF
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You have to do what you can to lessen the constraints of rng with frost. While mage is good for utility and pretty decent damage. Bad rng can really have a huge impact on your damage so if it's a dps increase do it. That's like frost mages who don't know how to shimmerlance or simply don't do it. Why not shimmerlance? It's always a dps increase. Sometimes you obviously don't want to but for the most part if you can fit 2 ice lances into winter's chill why wouldn't you?
Sure, if you find the opportunity. It does consume a shimmer charge, and those are valuable resources in TOS. But yeah, if you don't need shimmer, go ahead.