Friday, January 21, 2011
The Best Frost Mage Rotation Is Whatever Keeps You Alive
Many players get so hung up on finding the right frost mage rotation to maximize their dps. Most of them tend to forget that the whole point of the frost spec is for utility purposes not max dps. If you are looking to max your mage dps you will not do it using a frost mage rotation. Arcane is the spec that does the most single target dps, followed by fire and lastly frost.
The frost spec is meant to do a moderate amount of damage while increasing your survivability tremendously. It would be easy to pin down an arcane rotation for you because all that spec is meant for is straight dps. A rotation is a set order of abilities that never changes and it is next to impossible to achieve while using the frost spec.
Basically what i'm telling you is the best frost mage rotation for you to use would be no rotation at all. You must do whatever dps and crowd control that you can while keeping yourself at a distance and alive to accomplish your role as a frost mage.
Is It Possible To Have An Actual rotation For A Frost Mage?
Frost mage rotations are some of the hardest rotations to pin down because casting time and interrupts have to be taken into account. For example if you are in the middle of casting a particular spell and are interrupted by your enemy you cannot just move to the next instant cast spell like you can with hunters and almost all melee classes.
The mage seems to be more of a split second decision kind of class. You must know your class very well and you must be familiar with most counter attacks in case of interrupt or silences. Most of the time you will only have to worry about things like that until you get into the higher level instances and pvp.
If you are looking for the closest thing to a frost mage rotation as you can possibly get for low level instances and questing I have come up with the solution for you.
- Simply spam frostbolt until shatter, fingers of frost, or you instant cast frostfire bolt proc
- If shatter procs use ice lance
- If fingers of frost procs spam ice lance until it is gone
- If instant cast frostfire bolt procs use it and hope it triggers another, shatter, or fingers of frost
- Simple repeat the process
Throw deep freeze in whenever it is available and spam ice lance until deep freeze breaks. If you continue the process over and over you will be performing the closest thing there is to a frost mage rotation while maximizing your dps in the frost build.
Frost Mage Rotation Can't Be Pinned Down!
Frost Mage Rotation
The frost mage rotation is a hard rotation to pin down because frost is based around keeping enemies at a safe distance while dealing a constant amount of damage. It would be next to impossible to give any frost mage a permanent revolving rotation.
There are certain abilities you can use along side each other to create a high amount of burst damage while in a frost build. In order to be a good frost mage you must realize that your job isn't to kill everything faster than everyone else. You're job is crowd control with freezing and aoe burst damage with blizzard.
While leveling you will want to spam frostbolt until your enemy is close to you. You would then trigger frost nova to freeze them in place. Blink away from the frozen target and spam frostbolt again until the target is dead. If you repeat this process while you level it should be very mana and time efficient. (In order for this method to be more effective you should talent spec into anything that has to do with frostbolt or chill effects.)
A frost mage can come in very handy in 5 man dungeons. While battling 1 or 2 man mobs use frostbolt and fire blast to burn them down. When dealing with mobs of 3 or more you will deal the most damage by spamming blizzard until the mob is dead. It is very hard on mana but deals a huge amount of burst damage if you take talent points in improved blizzard.
I do not recommend using frost for any type of raiding. It is more of a soloing or 5 man spec. Look into the arcane spec if you are interested in raids. As far as I'm concerned frost is the only spec for pvp. A skilled frost mage can challenge any character in the game. The truth is everyone will find their own frost mage rotation. Just remember that frostbolt is your starter, your closer, you slower, and your nuke. Learn to love it and you will love the frost build.
Frost Mage Roation
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