My Own Frost Mage Guide | World of Warcraft GamePlay Guides

On the patch 6.0.2 (6.0.3). It is not accurate to compare fire vs frost and arcane vs frost. Why? Well:

The most important secondary stats for Arcane is mastery and for Fire it is Crit. These gets boosted by the 5.4 gear.
For Frost, the most important secondary stat is Multistrike, which there are very few (almost no) gear that has it.

On patch 6.1 Mirror Image got nerfed.

Highest dps long fights: Arcane > (=) Frost > Fire

Highest dps burst: Frost > Arcane > Fire

New stat for Frost: Multistrike.

Secondary stats: Multistrike > Haste > Mastery > Crit

Talent Tree

15 Blazing Speed/ Ice Floes

Comment: Both are good depending on fight.
Blazing Speed is very good since it will be like an extra blink.
If you need to move away fast from incoming damage.
Ice Floes is good on fights in which there will be a lot of movement
while doing damage.

30 Ice Barrier

Comments: Always good to use during all fight and time it on heavy incoming
damage. The reason why Alter Time is a no no is basically because
the opening rotation is not the same anymore in which Alter Time
gave that extra damage. It does not capture procs anymore so thumb
down for Alter time.

45 Ring of Frost/Frostjaw/Ice Ward

Comments: People say this is a PvP choice only. Lets agree to disagree

Ring of frost can definitely be used on PvE. When doing dungeons
or raid and many mobs are incoming, it can be good to freeze some
of them while nuking the others, at the same time helping tanks
from getting a lot of damage and making it easier for healers.

                       The one you should have thou for boosting your dps is Ice Ward
                       since it will give you extra finger of frost if there are mobs around
                       the player you use it on

60 Cauterize

Comments: Best choice for PvE. Enough said.

75 Ice Nova
Frost Bomb if Tier 17 set bonus

Comments: This row is completely changed.
Icy Nova does 100% increased damage on the target and does
damage to ALL nearby targets and freezing them for 2s.

Frost Bomb is not like it was before, now it works like a dot instead.
This dot incrases the damage you do with Ice Lance, meaning the
more you proc (when you actually proc) Finger of Frost, the more
damage you do (then when you normally proc)

I’ve tried all 3 spells and the winner is Ice Nova followed by Frost
Bomb (multiple and single target). Don’t even bother with Unstable
Magic.

90 First choice: Rune of Power
Second choice Mirror Image
Third choice Incanter´s Flow

Comments: Mirror Image is not like it was. These mirror guys does a lot of dps.
When they are up they are number 2 of your spell dps and do
approximately 15% of the damage. Also, it’s now on a 2minute
cooldown. When testing it looked like Frost Bolts from Mirror Images
gave me Brain Freeze proc. I’m not sure of this and will verify it soon.
Mirrior Image does less damage now (Nerfed on 6.1)

Rune of power increase your spell damage by 15% when standing on
it. Sure, use it on fights in which you will stand still all the time. This
is now on a 3 minute duration and still on 2 charges.

Incanter´s flow gives an average of 12% dmg (between 4-12%). This
spell in cycling every 10 second.

I have switched to ring of frost now after they nerfed the Images. Just
remember to have it up ALL the time were ever u move.

100 Prismatic Crystal

Comments: Comet Storm looks cool. Thermal Void is shit.
Prismatic Crystal does insane dmg. Use it on Aoe and single boss fights.

Dps rotation, step by step

Place the Prismatic Crystal

Pop Icy Vein

Cast Frozen Orb (to do damage but also to trigger Finger of Frost)

Cast Ice Nova you have 1 or 2 charges of Fingers of Frost procs.

Cast Ice Lance when you have 1 or 2 charges of Fingers of Frost procs.

Cast Frostfire bolt when Brain Freeze procs.

If there are mobs, cast Freeze (from Water Elemental), this will give you Finger of Frost procs.

If its a boss, cast pet Water Jet and shoot 2 Frost bolts, this gives u 100% Finger of Frost procs and BIG chance on Frostfire bolt proc.

When waiting for procs and cooldowns and procs, cast Frost bolts.

Rinse and repeat

Normal spells that you will use for dps

Frost bolt

Ice Lance

Frostfire bolt

Frozen Orb

Icy Veins

Blizzard

(Cone of Cold)

Spells from talent tree that you will use for dps

Rune of Power

Ice Nova

Spells you will use to help controlling the situation

Ring of Frost

Counterspell

(Deep Freeze)

(Cone of Cold)

Spellsteal

Remove Curse

Spells you will use to defend yourself from the situation

Ice Block

Ice barrier

Amplify Magic

Blink

(Slow Fall)

Passive spells

Cauterize

Frost Armor

Ice Shards

Shatter

Passive spells that gives you Procs

Brain Freeze

Finger of Frost

Spells that enhance the change of giving you Procs