Hello,
I just started playing WOW and I have done the character boost to level 110 for my first mage. I am currently doing the main quest line and I am getting destroyed by every minor enemy ( like ravens ). I would love input as to how I can get really good with my frost mage and what would be best for leveling up.
you used a lvl boost and skipped the learning process on your first character. what did you expect? the best way to get good is to learn as you lvl and gradually get new abilities.
but i guess your best bet now is to watch a youtube video about frost mages.
I might suggest going back to the Broken Isles for a bit until you get your skills up to par. A boosted character can be pretty dicey for a while if you’ve never played the class before.
…maybe also check out the internets for mage guides.
The key to a frost mage is “kiting”, that is, using your spells that have slowing or freezing in place to keep the mobs out of arm’s reach as you then kill them with spells. It takes some patience but can be really rewarding once mastered. Teaming up with a durable melee partner also works.
I learned with a hunter, getting down the spin shot while moving is a wonderful kiting technique with any ranged class and instant cast attacks.
Leveling doesn’t really teach you about effectively using shatter.
@OP, whenever you get brain freeze, don’t just cast it by itself. Cast a frostbolt, then hit it after the frostbolt into an ice lance. Make sure you dump your FoF charges before doing this. If you have 4-5 icicles, cast a glacial spike into the brain freeze instead.
Also, bind your frost elemental’s freeze ability. It’s your best friend.
but it does teach you about effectively not getting wrecked by random mobs
until you get azerite gear that have sheild and auto heal traits, you’re going to have to keep being mobile while trying to turret cast. not fun especially if your dance floor is overpopulated with hostile adds. later on when you have the azerite traits on gear you can just keep calm and turret cast most questing mobs
Not really. Most people face tank them until they learn how to properly utilize our mobility long after capping.
I know it shows that I’m fire but I use fire for PvP and frost for PvE.
Anyway, a lot of power for frost mage is tied into talents. Unfortunately, picking the wrong talents can set you back by 5k dps. I’ve adjusted my talent tree based on comparisons to others and analyzed which talents would be most viable for PvE.
With that being said, I typically frost bolt until I have enough stacks for glacial spike. I use ice lance and flurry when they proc but if I have a glacial spike and flurry proc at the same time, I’ll use glacial spike first and then flurry because flurry contributes to stacks (you need 5 for another glacial.) Glacial spike hits for 150k (that was the highest crit I’ve gotten on it) so your dps will jump up quite a bit if there are at least 2 enemies because it’ll hit both of them for similar amounts.
For AoE, I cast frost orb and then blizzard (reduces cd on orb per target hit by blizzard) and then spam ice lance procs if I have them while recasting blizzard until orb is back up.
I know I’ve neglected the use of frost nova and pet nova because I’m referring to raids and dungeons where you don’t exactly want to root anyone so that some unsuspecting melee doesn’t get pelted by dmg because the mobs will attack the closest person when rooted.
In the world, you’ll want to precast frost bolt while using pet nova because they have exclusive cds so you can get the shatter proc off them. The frost bolt is followed by an immediate ice lance which removes the root (unless your dmg is low). When the mobs get near you, nova, put some distance, and put another couple ice lances into them.
You should have no problem overwhelming normal mobs with your damage.
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/frost-mage-pve-dps-spec-builds-talents
It’s a bit of a read, but here’s a pretty in depth guide for you to look over.
As has been said by a couple people already though, boosting your first toon and expecting to be a pro out the gate isn’t feasible. Leveling them up is the best route to utilize your abilities and what have you, as you progressively unlock them over a period of time. Usually just enough time to have a core understanding of what your current abilities are capable of, then introducing another one, etc.
Maybe consider going back to level up the normal way and come back to your boosted toon?
To quote Commander Mike “Practice, Practice,Practice”
I have a feeling he has no idea what you’re talking about.
I have a frost mage parked at 110 because mob density is too tight to kite and frost nova aggros critters that hit just as hard with just as much life. Sorry to say my dude, but you picked one of the worst classes to start off the game with, especially boosted. To be clear, my first character was a mage and I sucked so bad at it I rerolled, later I came back to the class and really enjoyed it. Out of all the classes you’re the most likely to die if you just stand there. As a casual player with a lot of experience, I recommend Paladin, we have just about everything and we can literally face tank the mobs. Ironically it was the last class I started the game wanting to play, but I have this one and a BE at 100 so I keep coming back to it. Learn to embrace the light! ![:laughing:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/laughing.png?v=6" ":laughing:")
That means I’m doing it right. 
Frost is a good leveling spec if you’re comfortable with aoe pulls. Just mount up, gather all the melee mobs, run in circles to make sure they’re all clumped together, then freeze->frozen orb->blizzard. If the mobs somehow survive and get close, just blink through them and keep kiting through your orb. The damage from blizzard will lower the cd on your orb per mob hit, so it should be up for your next pull. If done properly, you should be able to kill everything without letting even a single mob touch you.
For 120, the Bone Chilling/Ebonbolt/Comet Storm/Glacial Spike build is the “standard” build. However, I would suggest you sim yourself, since certain azerite traits can push lonely winter/frozen touch/splitting ice/thermal void slightly ahead. I recommend you download the simulationcraft addon, and then export your character to raidbots to sim your character’s talent combinations. Go read up guides on icy-veins or the altered-time forums for more information on the general gameplay of frost.
Also, make sure you’re using @cursor macros so you aren’t wasting time clicking for blizzard and pet freeze. When you press the key to cast these spells, they will instantly start casting on your cursor’s location, instead of you having to click the location to start the cast.
Pet Freeze macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Freeze
Blizzard macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Blizzard
You have to let it go
Dont click your spells use key bindings, dont keyboard turn, look up some guides on icy veins or wowhead watch some guides on YouTube. But the greatest thing you can do is practice if you just started playing only time playing will make you better
https://www.icy-veins.com/wow/frost-mage-pve-dps-guide
Everything you need to know about Frost mages.
Start with Talents and Rotation, then go into best stats and other intricate details.
Read it all and don’t skip anything.
Just read all your abilities and passives really carefully, you’ll start to understand how it works.
Start with Frostbolt until Flurry procs, never use Flurry before that because of its long cast time. Right after Flurry procs and you use it then you use Ice Lance once because it gets an extra chill effect from Flurry. And just throw out a Frozen Orb whenever its cooled down. (Frozen Orb is also great for single targets because of its instant cast and Ice Lance proc)
When your fighting groups of mobs (more then 1 at a time) use Blizzard and that will cool down your Frozen Orb faster which is also great against groups of mobs. (only use Blizzard on groups of mobs because of its long cast time and lower single target damage)
The rest is up to you and the talents you select, have fun!