Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best PvP Talents 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 show you what are the best PvP Frost Mage talents in Mists of Pandaria Season 12 and why you should choose them.
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Best Frost Mage PvP Talents
This new talent system is dramatically different from our original Cataclysm talents. Now players are given way less options in terms of talent selection, and can even change their talents in the starting gate using Tome of the Clear Mind.
Here we have your default talents for Frost Mage. Let’s break down why these talents are so promising in MoP, and any alternatives you can select depending on the composition played or up against.
Hard-Locked Talents:
Cold Snap provides that additional Ice Block and 30% heal upon using it.
Living Bomb grants us a passive source of damage on a separate spell school that can be min-maxxed heavily with Shatter.
Incanter’s Ward not only for its small shield, but if fully absorbed we gain a massive spell damage modifier. We also obtain 6% spell damage passively from picking this talent.
Soft-Locked Talents & Alternatives:
Presence of Mind is our common pick here as it makes our lives way easier with landing CC, especially against Restoration Druids.
Alternative: Blazing Speed is typically selected against melee cleaves where you aren’t as reliant on CC in order to win the game. Keep in mind that the mobility melees have isn’t as powerful as it current is in retail WoW, allowing you to gain some distance more effectively and guarantee casts.
Flameglow is your best pick here as the damage reduction it gives from every attack is super solid defensively. This talent becomes more noticeable against high sustain damage and DoT specs.
Alternatives: Temporal Shield can be selected against bursty, CC heavy comps. Ice Barrier on the other hand is good in 2v2 or duels without support of a healer.
Ring of Frost allows us to guarantee follow up CC after Deep Freeze, and is best into Restoration Druids that are constantly shifting in form to avoid your CC.
Alternatives: Frostjaw is quite powerful if used as cross CC into casters or if you’re looking to set up Deep Freeze goes. However, this talent is commonly picked as a Fire Mage and not so much as a Frost Mage. Ice Ward as your last alternative here is great into double melee, and can even be thrown on an ally to help kite.
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