Welcome to Skill Capped’s Frost Mage PvP Guide for The War Within 11.2.0
All sections for Frost Mage PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Frost Mages in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section provides a brief overview of Frost Mages in The War Within.
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What’s New for Frost Mages in The War Within?
Entering into the new 11.2 patch, Frost Mage will continue to perform similar to how it used to in the previous patch, with the most major change being a flat 10% damage nerf to all damage sources. This is a massive detriment to the specialization and its current performance in the meta.
As for our War Within changes, the most notable change is Ice Nova with it now being a choice node with one of our most powerful methods of Crowd Control, Ring of Frost. Another massive change worth noting is our new talent, Barrier Diffusion, for some solid cooldown reduction every time a barrier effect breaks.
We also experience changes to our Time Anomaly talent, as we now receive Brain Freeze procs for more ways to apply Shatter, and a Water Elemental every time we periodically gain Icy Veins. This gives us our pet Freeze ability for a limited time, exceeding the limits on how much this spec can frequently burst with Shatter.
Entering into the hero talent trees, we only have one tree viable in PvP, Frostfire. This Hero tree focuses on providing players more ways to deal damage outside of our typical Ice Lance and Glacial Spike spells, as the centerpiece in this tree revolves around the talent, Frostfire Mastery, buffing our Haste from Fire damage, and Mastery from Frost damage, respectively. These are referred to as Fire Mastery and Frost Mastery.
Overall, this spec seems to be quite weak in comparison to its previous iteration in 11.1, however you can still make use of this spec in competitive play. You still have an abundance of snares and roots to control the pacing of the game, regardless of what composition you play as.
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