11.2 Frost Mage Quickstart Guide for Frostfire | Basics, Talents, Gear, Rotation, & more

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Get Raid Ready with the BOLTMAXXER Frostfire Frost Mage Quickstart Guide. This Guide is for Beginners and Veteran Mages alike in Season 3 of the War Within Patch 11.2 (TWW).

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Blizzard Macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Blizzard

Pet Freeze Macro:
#showtooltip
/cast [@cursor] Freeze

Icy Veins Macro:
#showtooltip Icy Veins
/use 13
/use 14
/use Tempered Potion
/cast Icy Veins

(add your racial as well if you have one)

Check your spellqueue window:
/dump GetCVar("SpellQueueWindow")

I recommend having it over 250 at all times as Mage. You can change it with:
/console SpellQueueWindow (put number here)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:14 Frostfire Frost viability in 11.2
00:49 What we will cover for Frostfire Frost
01:26 Spellqueue Window and Minimalizing Lag with ExitLag
02:51 Why Frostfire Frost in 11.2?
03:10 Best Talents for Frostfire Frost (Boltspammer) in 11.2
04:18 Best Stats for Frostfire Frost in 11.2
04:51 Best Gear for Frostfire Frost in 11.2
05:24 Making use of gear for Multiple Mage Specs in 11.2
05:50 Best Embellishment for Frostfire Frost in 11.2
06:25 Best Trinkets for Frostfire Frost in 11.2
07:08 Best Race for Frostfire Frost in 11.2
07:30 Frost Icicles & Builders Explained (Mastery)
08:02 11.2 Tier Bonus and Glacial Spike
08:09 Frost Cooldowns Overview
09:03 Shatter and Winters Chill
09:19 Best Opener for Frostfire Frost (Boltspammer) in 11.2
10:40 Best Rotation made Easy for Frostfire Frost (Boltspammer) in 11.2
13:16 What to do with Additional Targets & AOE
14:36 Explaining the Rotation and why it's so Smooth
15:20 How RNG affects the Opener
16:30 Rotation Deep Dive
17:18 What to do if Flurry is not up & Other Edge cases
19:23 When to Comet Storm
19:57 Outro

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