Hello,
Wondering if I can get a convo going on solo shuffle frost mage as I’m finding that the talent builds of those on the leaderboard vary a lot and searching google I’ve found little in the way of good info-
re:talents
-When do you play glacial and/or ray of frost?
-When do you play a frostbolt build?
-When do you play snowdrift?
-Overall, how many talent loadouts do you have?
-Do you keep remove curse regardless just so you can have an extra point for the 2nd/3rd tiers? This is what I’ve been doing but I feel like it might be terrible
-I see some using the slow talent and I am baffled- any insight?
-I also see some using ice floes and am baffled- when and why?
re:other things
-During frozen orb, do you have a spell priority? eg orb > insta blizzard > flurry procs > fof procs? do you use ice nova during orb? even ring of fire?
-When do you use shifting?
-How do you use db/sheep in the shuff environment?
-Do you use a one shot macro of any sorts?
Here is a link to my mage: h ttps://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/character/us/tichondrius/blinkbow
Any contribution to the thread is much appreciated! Thank you!
Frostbolt build is the cookie cutter build rn.
Glacial can still have its play however overall the frostbolt crits will only be like 15% less than a glacial and more consistent.
I like ray into casters who can’t kick, SP, boomy. Before you ray through out a flury, your ray will crit and not consume the shatter debuff.
Snowdrift is only good for cheese and or duels, most people will walk out of it unless you nova them first.
For PvP talents:
Always play:
-Ring of Fire
-Concentrated cool
Optional
-Precog if the team has a bunch of kicks
-Netherwind armour is great against classes who don’t stack crit. As the 10% reduction is to their crit stat. So unless they have over 10% crit, they will never crit you
-Ice wall if decent for LoS on blades edge
-Next patch frost bomb will chunk people when you shatter the end of the duration with a Flury
Ice flows is good into a setup comp, RMP you can now blink the stuns and casting while moving feels amazing once you get the hang of it.
Slow is great as it’s on another spell school.
Remove curse 99% of the time, locks with tongues and shamans hex.
Shifting power once orb and Icy Veins are on cd. Try to bait kicks and then use it as it’s a high priority spell