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Frostfire Frost Mage PvP Guide For RBG

Mage class icon Frost Mage specialization icon
Frost Mage
Frostfire icon
Frostfire
The War Within Season 1
Based on 34 Characters
From 1806 to 2439 Rating

Welcome to Murlok.io's PvP guide for Frostfire Frost Mages in Rated Battlegrounds. This guide covers the best stats, races, talents, gear, embellishments, enchantments, and gems for Patch 11.0.7, based on data from the top 50 Frostfire Frost Mages in The War Within Season 1 across the US, EU, KR, and TW regions. This includes Bigbodyhaver (Area 52 US) , who is currently the highest-ranked with a rating of 2439.

Updated every 12 hours with the latest data from the Battle.net API , this guide also examines each character's recent playtime, specialization frequency, and equipment choices for greater accuracy.

Top Frost Mages

Stat Priority

Stats are crucial attributes that influence a character's power in World of Warcraft. They determine the character's strength and overall playstyle. Stat bonuses can be found on various equipment pieces, consumables created by Alchemy, certain foods, some enchantments, and gems.

Each stat experiences diminishing returns once its equipped bonus reaches +20%. Optimizing a character's performance involves finding a balanced distribution. Here is the optimal way to balance Frostfire Frost Mage secondary and minor stats for RBG:

Secondary Stats

+704
8% Critical Strike
+14048
33% Haste
+1735
11% Mastery
+15503
20% Versatility
  1. Versatility
  2. Haste
  3. Mastery
  4. Critical Strike

Minor Stats

+0
0% Avoidance
+295
0% Leech
+1153
7% Speed
  1. Speed
  2. Leech
  3. Avoidance

Class Talents

Talents are the main element defining a character's build, significantly influencing playstyle by adding, modifying, and enhancing abilities and behaviors. They are crucial in shaping how a character functions in battle.

Class talents represent a common tree shared across all Mage specializations. These talents provide foundational skills and enhancements essential to the Mage class. They offer a range of abilities that lay the groundwork for a Mage's overall capabilities. The following tree reproduces the in-game class talents disposition as a heatmap. Each color represents the usage frequency and general recommendation level of the talents:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Specialization Talents

Specialization talents provide Frostfire Frost Mages with unique abilities and enhancements tailored to their combat style. The following tree reproduces the in-game specialization talents disposition and shows the best talents as a heatmap:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Hero Talents

Hero talents allow deeper customization of the Frost Mage class fantasy, enhancing character builds. The following trees show the Spellslinger and Frostfire hero talents as a heatmap, highlighting the most effective choices:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

PvP Talents

PvP talents are tailored for player-versus-player combat scenarios. Activated in arenas, battlegrounds, and the open world with war mode enabled, these talents optimize a Frostfire Frost Mage's performance in PvP encounters. They provide specialized enhancements that give players an edge in combat against other players, reflecting the unique demands of PvP gameplay. The following shows the best PvP talents as a heatmap:

  1. Most frequently used talents, highly recommended for optimal performance.
  2. Widely used talents offering flexibility for alternative choices or personal preference.
  3. Less commonly selected talents, typically chosen to fill necessary slots for advancing to the next tier.

Best In Slot Gear

Gear consists of items that directly determine a character's power level. It can be acquired from various sources: dungeons, raids, world drops, crafted through professions, obtained from PvP vendors, or chosen as rewards from the Great Vault.

Each piece of gear significantly boosts a character's overall strength and capabilities. Here are the top items for Frostfire Frost Mages in RBG, tailored for each equipment slot:

Embellishments

Embellishments are unique effects associated with crafted items, either as predefined elements in a recipe or added with an optional embellishment reagent, creating embellished gear. These enhancements diversify and amplify characters' capabilities.

Given that only a maximum of two embellished items can be equipped at a time, here are the best embellishments for Frostfire Frost Mages in RBG:

  1. Algari Competitor's Signet icon
    Elemental Focusing Lens
    16
  2. Algari Competitor's Staff icon
    Ascendance
    15
  3. Algari Competitor's Cloth Sash icon
    Writhing Armor Banding
    15
  4. Algari Competitor's Cloth Hood icon
    Duskthread Lining
    6
  5. Algari Competitor's Signet icon
    Captured Starlight
    3

Enchantments

Enchantments provide minor yet valuable enhancements to various items, including Back, Chest, Wrist, Legs, Rings, Feet, Main Hand, and Off Hand.

Most enchantments are crafted via the Enchanting profession. However, Legs enhancements are crafted by Leatherworkers.

Enchantments are usually available at the auction house, making them accessible for upgrades. Here is a list of the top enchantments for Frostfire Frost Mages in RBG, essential for optimizing combat effectiveness:

Gems

Gems are crafted stones from the Jewelcrafting profession that provide stat bonuses to improve gear and fine-tune character stats. These gems can be socketed into various item slots, including Head, Neck, Wrist, Waist, and Rings.

While the availability of sockets on these items is generally random when they drop, Head, Wrist, and Waist items can have a single socket added using the Nerubian Gemweaver , which costs 6 Algari Token of Merit obtained from the Great Vault.

Additionally, for non-PvP Neck and Rings items, sockets can be added with the Magnificent Jeweler's Setting . This item, crafted by Jewelcrafters, can increase the number of sockets to 2 for Neck and Rings slots.

Available through both the auction house and the crafting order system, the following are the top gem choices for Frostfire Frost Mages in RBG:

  1. Versatile Emerald icon
    Versatile Emerald
    80
  2. Quick Sapphire icon
    Quick Sapphire
    72
  3. Cognitive Bloodstone icon
    Cognitive Bloodstone
    27
  4. Quick Emerald icon
    Quick Emerald
    11
  5. Versatile Onyx icon
    Versatile Onyx
    10

Citrine Gems

Citrine Gems are a new type of gem socketed into the Cyrce’s Circlet : a powerful ring introduced in World of Warcraft’s The War Within 11.0.7 patch. These gems provide a versatile range of effects to enhance performance in battle.

Obtained through various activities on Siren Isle, Citrine Gems are a compelling choice for adventurers wielding the Cyrce’s Circlet. Here are the best Citrine Gems for Frostfire Frost Mage in RBG:

Races

Each race in World of Warcraft has unique traits that enhance abilities or improve in-game quality of life. Although these racial traits offer minor advantages, they can provide a competitive edge in certain scenarios.

With Human currently being the top race for Frostfire Frost Mages in RBG, here are the other races that also stand out due to their advantageous traits:

  1. Human icon
    Human
    9
  2. Night Elf icon
    Night Elf
    8
  3. Orc icon
    Orc
    3
  4. Gnome icon
    Gnome
    2
  5. Undead icon
    Undead
    2