Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Races for Frost Mages in Mists of Pandaria
All sections for Frost Mage PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal race, talents, glyphs, gear, professions and macros. This will help you have a good understanding on Frost Mage in PvP for Mists of Pandaria, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will explain the best Frost Mage races for each faction in PvP for Mists of Pandaria Season 12.
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Best Frost Mage PvP Races
Alliance
Human
If you plan to choose Alliance as your faction for Frost Mage in Mists of Pandaria PvP, Human is your best option out of both factions. Will to Survive is used as a trinket players can use instead of using the original PvP trinket purchased from the PvP vendors for Season 12.
Substitute Trinket
Will to Survive as a racial ability has identical effects as the current Season 12 PvP trinket, Malevolent Gladiator’s Medallion of Tenacity, which removes your character from any Crowd Control you are in. Having this racial be your substitute PvP trinket offers the opportunity to use multiple PvP damage trinkets, granting you additional throughput during your burst windows to your enemy targets.
Horde
Orc
If you plan to choose Horde as your faction for Frost Mage in Mists of Pandaria PvP, Orc is your best option to choose from. Hardiness and Blood Fury provide strong survivability and throughput when in PvP combat, and is a strong competitor with the human racial.
Hardiness
Hardiness‘s ability grants a player passive 15% stun reduction. Stuns used on you being a shorter duration as well as the use of a PvP trinket allow for players to slip away from danger quicker, and allow for players to be more active during a PvP game.
Blood Fury
Orc is provided with an On-Use racial, Blood Fury, which grants Spell Power to you for a short amount of time. This can be paired with your burst cooldowns to provide additional damage throughput to your enemy targets.
Alternative Frost Mage PvP Races
Alliance
Gnome
If you want an alternative race while playing as a Frost Mage in Mists of Pandaria PvP, Gnome is a solid pick to choose. Due to Mage survivability tied to how well they are able to kite, having this racial enhances their kiting abilities, making them more difficult for players to maintain uptime on.
Expansive Mind
Expansive Mind increases your mana pool by 5%, which can be beneficial due to Mages and other casters being reliant on mana management.
Escape Artist
Gnome provides their iconic racial, Escape Artist, which removes all root and snare effects applied on their character. This will enable you to gain more distance on your enemies.
Horde
Undead
Another alternative race on the Horde side is Undead. Even though there are unique benefits to choosing this race, it is more inconsistent than Will to Survive due to the variance of compositions in arena matches and requires Malevolent Gladiator’s Medallion of Tenacity instead of two on-use PvP trinkets.
Will of The Forsaken Racial
The racial ability, Will of the Forsaken, allows for an additional Crowd Control break against classes such as Priests and Warlocks with Fear. An internal cooldown of 30 seconds is applied on your Malevolent Gladiator’s Medallion of Tenacity, which means using this racial without caution can make you susceptible to swaps.
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