Welcome to Skill Capped’s Guide on the Best Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants for Frost Mages in The War Within 11.0

All sections for Frost Mage PvP have been divided into corresponding sections for the most optimal hero talents, class talents, spec talents, race, stats, gear, enchants, gems, and macros. This will help you have a good understanding of Frost Mages in PvP for The War Within, the strengths and weaknesses associated with this specialization, and help you conquer the arena. This section will guide you on the best Frost Mage Stats, Gear, Gems & Enchants in The War Within.

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Stat Priority
PvP Gear
Embellishments
Enchants
Gems

Frost Mage Stat Priority

Versatility (25%) > Haste > Mastery > Critical Strike

Our main focus for our stats should be on Versatility. You want to focus on getting as much of it as you can, up to at least 25%. This will happen automatically through PvP gearing, as most of the items you will end up using will have Versatility on them.

Beyond this stat, Haste will be our second most important stat. Haste is great since it makes our casts quicker and reduces the global cooldown. This allows us to land Crowd Control easier at the right times, assisting us with creating pressure or to peel for your team more often

This secondary stat also helps us cast our Frostfire Bolt a lot faster during our Icy Veins windows, as we can cleave relatively fast and outpressure our opponents at ease. Not to mention, having more of this stat makes it easier to generate more Fingers of Frost stacks thanks to Flash Freeze, and even Brain Freeze if we select it in our Frost tree, making our rotation feel more fluid.

After that, you’ll be focusing on Mastery. This will empower the amount of damage you deal from your Icicles or Glacial Spike, depending on which build you are playing as.

Followed by Mastery, Critical Strike is your least favored stat and should be avoided. This serves no benefit on our gear, since we already have Shatter that make up for this stat.

BiS Frost Mage PvP Gear

Weapons

Main Hand: Algari Competitor’s Skewer with Haste / Versatility
Off Hand: Algari Competitor’s Lamp with Haste / Versatility

Trinkets

Trinket 1: Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity
Trinket 2: Forged Gladiator’s Medallion

When it comes to trinkets, we are pairing up with Forged Gladiator’s Insignia of Alacrity in almost every game. This adds some static Haste that will benefit us in our stat priority, while occasionally proccing for a considerable boost to our primary stat.

You will then need a Forged Gladiator’s Medallion to break out of CC every 2 minutes.

As an alternative, you can choose Forged Gladiator’s Emblem instead of Insignia as a temporary HP boost in cases where you are guaranteed to be the kill target. A neat trick you can do with this ability is by using it before activating Alter Time, and cancel Forged Gladiator’s Emblem before pressing Alter Time again. This essentially treats your Emblem as a heal you can apply to yourself if done properly. Not to mention, our Emblem trinket can more promising into setup based matchups, such as RMP or Jungle Cleave to help us surviving during their setups.

Best Frost Mage Embellishments

Item 1: Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension on any of our crafted weapon slots.
Item 2: Writhing Armor Banding on any crafted armor piece.

Out of all available embellishments, Darkmoon Sigil: Ascension tends to be the strongest pick due to its constant flow of secondary stats throughout a game. Even though this embellishment can be RNG dependent at times in terms of proccing the most effective secondary stats, it can contribute a ton to our consistent throughput and can even make our Icy Veins windows more impactful.

Best Frost Mage Gems

Core Gems: Cognitive Bloodstone + Quick Sapphire

In The War Within, you will use a Vicious Jeweler’s Setting to add sockets to your Helmet, Neck, Bracers, Belt and Rings. Two sockets can be added to the Neck and Rings.

As Versatility and Haste are your best secondary stats, you will want to both gem and enchant it wherever possible. For your new unique PvP-specific gem, we highly recommend the Cognitive Bloodstone, which acts almost identical to the Precognition Embellishment from Dragonflight.

For all gem slots, we will use Quick Sapphire. This will provide us a hefty amount of Versatility, while weaving in some Haste to generate Icicles a bit faster than before.