Covenants

The 2 best covenants for a frost mage will be Night Fae and Venthyr.

Venthyr is mainly for raidingST. Having Mirrors of Torment on single target works well with Icy Veins, essentially getting Brain Freeze Proc roughly every 15 seconds, which helps us extend Icy Veins with Thermal Void and reduce the cooldown of the ability due to the Icy Propulsion conduit.

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Night Fae has a lot of value in Mythic+ because it reduces the cooldown of Icy Veins with shifting power. On top of that, you will also be able to have multiple Frozen Orbs active.

Raiding - Venthyr will be our choice since Mirrors of Torment gives us essentially 3 Brain Freeze procs over 45 Seconds. It helps our consistent single target damage by reducing the cooldown and extending our Icy Veins with Thermal Void. It synergies well with our overall toolkit.

Mythic+Multi-spec - Night Fae will be the better choice for Mythic+ dungeons or if you are planning to play other mage specs. The Night Fae covenant is very flexible, and it gives us the most benefit in terms of Mythic+. Shifting power reduces our cooldowns which allows us to have Icy Veins up more often. It will also enable us to have multiple Blizzard and Frozen Orb simultaneously, which benefits our damage by a large margin.

Night Fae

For Night Fae you will be using the following Conduit Setup:

Venthyr

For Venthyr you will be using the following Conduit Setup:

Legendaries

Silk Ice Legendary

While Icy Veins is active, each frostbolt you cast reduces the cast time of frostbolt by 2%, stacking up to 10 times.

This Legendary is super strong when fighting one target. It synergies well with our Icy veins cooldown, essentially granting us almost 100% uptime, assuming we can keep casting without being interrupted.

Bis Trinkets Fire Mage

Optimal slot: Legs with critical Strike and haste.

Freezing Winds Legendary

While Frozen Orb is active, you gain Fingers of Frost every 2 Seconds.

This is our go-to legendary for multi-target encounters and mythic+. It essentially makes us highly mobile and gives us the ability to squeeze in a lot of burst damage during Frozen Orb since we will be getting a lot of Fingers of Frost. It's overall a super-strong pick when you are fighting anything more than one target.

Optimal slot: Gloves with critical Strike and haste.

Domination Shards

For our domination shard set, we will be using the following pieces from the raid.

• Bracers
• Belt
• Helm
• Chest
• Shoulders

This gives us the ability to essentially equip 5 shards in total.

Raid

The shards you want to equip for sanctum of domination as a frost mage will primarily be Chaos Bane, which is combined from 3 Unholy Shards.

• Shard of Dyz (Unholy) Provides a small stacking damage buff on the target.
• Shard of Oth (Unholy) Provides a slight mobility boost, but it requires you to complete the unholy set.
• Shard of Zed (Unholy) Nothing beneficial damage-wise, but essential for having 3 Shards for the set.
• Shard of Cor (Frost) Large damage increase when first engaging a target or swapping to a new target.
• Shard of Bek (Blood) Increase damage if you are at high health.

Mythic+

For Mythic+, you want the following shards of domination, but keep in mind that the set won't be active outside of Sanctum of Domination. However, the Gems themselves remain extremely powerful to equip.

Fire Mage Bis

• Shard of Dyz (Unholy) Provides a small stacking damage buff on the target.
• Shard of Oth (Unholy) Provides a small mobility boost.
• Shard of Cor (Frost) A large damage Increase when first engaging a target or swapping to a new target.
• Shard of Bek (Blood) It increase damage if you are at high health.
• Shard of Rev (Blood) Increasing your leech and survivability.