I’ve been struggling a bit in lower rated RSS on a frost mage. I feel like I spend a significant amount of time snaring, spellstealing, and CCing. Always waiting for Ray of Frost to come off CD. That hasn’t been working.
I’ve decided I need to nuke people if I want to win.
Is there a mage spec/build that constantly pumps out high damage like a destro lock or ele shaman when they’re freecasting?
Just reroll Destro or Ele if you want to play one one 
If you’re running glacial spike insitead of fingers of frost build you’re going to have a harder time getting stuff off
Run the fingers of frost build and your finger/frozen procced ice lances should hit pretty hard especially during veins. Frozen orb makes it so you can chuck 80-100k ice lances over and over again.
Trade off frozen orb and ray of frost (dont use them at same time) and your damage will be more concentrated.
If you’re getting targeted just be annoying to catch until frozen orb is back up. Shimmer, displace, shimmer again. Chuck frostbolts while you’re shimerring away. Let them come to you, frost nova, shimmer away. Displace yourself behind a pillar, lead them away from it, displace back. Once frozen orb is up you should be able to do damage and pump out ice lances without them being able to catch you.
Try to morph heals and then use Ray of Frost as an execute when they’re below 35%.
This ofcourse all changes the moment theres a marksman hunter, nothing can save you then. You’ll be almost one shotted every time you stand in their 70 yard range LOS.
Yeah the mage and healer needs to line at all time but in rss that gets you screamed at by your healer “why are you lining me?!”
Thanks for the info!
I’ll give that a shot.
Yeah, whenever I see a MM hunter in the lobby, I expect to lose more rating.
Can’t even enjoy my mage in reg bgs because of how overtuned MM is. Every game has at least 2 or 3 who just target a mage the entire game because it’s a free kill.
I’ve always had a hard time with mm on my mage but it’s never been like it is now…
Spend less time worrying about CC and more time doing damage.
Arcane because it spends less time casting than Frost while doing more damage overall.
It’s not a choice between a fingers of frost build and a glacial spike build. You don’t have to use glacial spike, though. I also way prefer using ice floes over shimmer with frost. OG blink on low cooldown breaks you out of stuns which is huge, and ice floes enables you to do some really powerful stuff with ray, like starting it in line and then moving behind a pillar to prevent the other team from kicking you.
Your most reliable big damage is orb + ice lance spam. Make sure to orb + apply and reapply blizzard while it’s instant in the window, because that’s where the majority of your orb CDR comes from. Don’t open frost at all while you have this opportunity to spam instants, this is your go that you get to use while being completely mobile. Once you’ve made yourself a really frustrating target, they’ll likely swap to something else which is when you’re going to start thinking about opportunities to get off frost bomb + glacial + flurry/ice nova combos.
in rss at lower ratings you can win by just using frost bomb into flurry into ray while the healer is cc’d, at higher ratings you are a dampener and nothing more
Not everyone is a fotm reroller with 60 alts.
Imagine playing an Orc 