Stat Priorities
Stat Priorities
Single Targets Stats:
- Critical Strike 33% (or close to 30% at least)
- Mastery/Haste
- Versatility
AoE Stats:
- Mastery
- Critical Strike
- Haste
- Versatility
Stat Outline
Critical Strike - Increase our critical strike chance of all our abilities.
Haste - Faster cast speed.
Mastery - Increase our Icicles, Frozen Orb, Blizzard, Glacial Spike and Comet Storm damage.
Versatility - just a small % damage increase, damage reduction, and self-healing.
The best way to calculate stat priorities for your character is to "sim" your character. Method Raider Jaerv has written a series of Metafy articles to help!
How to Sim in World of WarcraftRaces
For Horde - I would recommend Troll, Orc, and Goblin as the best races for Frost Mage.
For Alliance - Human, Voidelf, Mechagnomes, and Dwarfs are all very close, so you can pick whatever you like.
Enchants
Rings - Devotion of Critical Strike
Wrist - Devotion of Avoidance
Weapon - Sophic Devotion (Main stat Proc)
Chest - Enchant Chest - Waking Stats
Cloak - Writ of Avoidance
Legs - Temporal Spellthread
Belt - Shadowed Belt Clasp
Gems
Main Stat with Critical Strike or Mastery.
Consumables
Potions:
Elemental Potion of Power - Main stat Potion for 30 Seconds.
Dreamwalker's Healing Potion - Healing potion on Demand
Phials (Replacing Flasks in Dragonflight):
Phial of Elemental Chaos or Iced Phial of Corrupting Rage
Alternatively Phial of Charged Isolation - Main Stat increase as long as you are within 10 yards of any allies.