Frost Mage Guide
Control and shatter: freeze them, then hit what can't move.
- Role Ranged DPS
- Health 4,200
- Resource Mana
Plan your Frost Mage build → Fire Mage
Toolkit at a glance
Counted from the spell data (every Mage spell, the Frost spells, and the row-5 talent spells).
| Stuns, fears, incapacitates | Polymorph, Deep Freeze |
|---|---|
| Roots and silences | Frost Nova |
| Interrupts | Counterspell |
| Defensives | Ice Block, Ice Barrier, Mana Shield |
| Heals | — |
| Mobility | Blink |
Frost Mage talents
Five rows of three. Pick one per row; rows 1 to 4 are passive and row 5 teaches a spell.
70% more crit chance against frozen targets: rooted, or in Deep Freeze.
Each Frostbolt has a 30% chance to make your next Frostbolt instant.
Ice Lance also hits every other enemy within 8 m of the target.
Frostbolt can be cast while moving, but takes 0.5 sec longer.
Blink roots enemies within 8 m of where you left for 2 sec.
Casting Ice Barrier makes you run 40% faster for 4 sec.
Falling below 30% health resets Ice Block, Frost Nova and Ice Barrier. Once every 3 min.
While Ice Barrier holds, enemies within 6 m of you are slowed by 50%.
Ice Block also heals you for 100 every sec for 10 sec.
Deep Freeze no longer needs a frozen target, but its cooldown is 45 sec instead of 30.
Frostbolt has a 25% chance to freeze its target in place for 4 sec.
Counterspell also freezes the target in place for 4 sec.
Learn Icy Veins: for 15 sec you cast 30% faster, and your casts can't be interrupted.
Learn Ray of Frost: a 4 sec beam of cold for 200 five times, chilling the target as it goes.
Learn Ring of Frost: a ring of ice thrown up to 30 m away; once it forms, the first enemy to step in is frozen solid for 6 sec (damage breaks it).
Frost spells
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ice Lance | Frost | 150 | Instant | — | 30 m |
| Deep Freeze | Frost | 200 | Instant | 30 s | 30 m |
Spells taught by talents (row 5)
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Icy Veins | Frost | — | Instant | 90 s | Self |
| Ray of Frost | Frost | 300 | Instant | 30 s | 30 m |
| Ring of Frost | Frost | 300 | Instant | 45 s | 30 m |
Spells every Mage knows
The first eight are the action bar a new character starts with; swap spells on your bar in Spells & Talents (N). ★ = starting bar.
| Spell | School | Cost | Cast | Cooldown | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Frostbolt ★ | Frost | 300 | 2 s | — | 30 m |
| Fireball ★ | Fire | 335 | 2.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Fire Blast ★ | Fire | 200 | Instant | 8 s | 25 m |
| Polymorph ★ | Arcane | 300 | 1.5 s | — | 30 m |
| Frost Nova ★ | Frost | 250 | Instant | 25 s | Self |
| Cone of Cold ★ | Frost | 300 | Instant | 10 s | Self |
| Counterspell ★ | Arcane | 200 | Instant | 24 s | 30 m |
| Blink ★ | Arcane | 150 | Instant | 15 s | Self |
| Ice Block | Frost | — | Instant | 240 s | Self |
| Ice Barrier | Frost | 300 | Instant | 30 s | Self |
| Arcane Explosion | Arcane | 400 | Instant | — | Self |
| Mana Shield | Arcane | 500 | Instant | 20 s | Self |
Recommended Frost Mage build
Recommended builds for this spec are still being tested. To be added.
Spell names, costs, cooldowns and talent text are read from the game client (v0.21, checked 2026-10-30). The developer calls the numbers “first-pass tuning”, so expect them to change.