(just so u guys know, this is not a OMG FROST OP post, nor a FROST IS FOR NUBS post. THis is a real situation that Id like to get my brother though so he can help my guild through Heroics and raids some day.)
Sup mage forums?
I have a Twin brother who plays a frost mage (he will not play any other spec because he loves the pet so much.) He does not PvP much, so he is running around with me or solo doing quests and dungeons.
I was not sure if Frost was the best PvE spec but i could not talk him into going Arcane for long in late WotLK.
to the point_________
My Twin's character:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/character/guldan/vynessavia/simple
I need to know many things from this post.
1: What stats do i need to help him look for?
2: What should i change about his spec (i know it needs change, i just chose x%s and procs to keep it easy up until now)
3: Where should I look for gear for him to wear?
4: DPS rotation
5: other tips on helping my Brother.
I Know that some one will come on here and say "what a NOOB" or "Go Arcane/Fire!" or maybe worse things.
So just so you guys know, my brother is Autistic and i am proud of him getting this far without any one playing his character for him :)
So if possible, try to come up with a rotation that does not require rocket science or Trig to figure out. thx.
THank you for the help. will be back l8er today to check up on the post :)
bunch of threads on this bro
You want to shoot for 33.33% raid buffed crit so that your talent "shatter" which increases your critical chance on frozen (or targets considered frozen by your fingers of frost talent) targets by 3. 3x33.33% = 100% crit chance. You want 17% hit so you never miss the boss, then you want as much haste as you can get after. mastery is the lowest on your priority list.
As far as rotation goes. Start with frost bolt and then mirror image right after. then I usually use pet freeze on the boss and deep freeze him. I assume you took the talent that allows your pet freeze to give you 2 free fingers of frost procs when you use it so that your deep freeze will be able to be used and hopefully crit. The mirror images will prevent you from pulling threat from the awesome damage deep freeze does. That will use up one of your two fingers of frost stacks? I guess is the word I'll use. Start Frost bolt spamming. If you get a fingers of frost proc from a frostbolt, use ice lance right away so that you always have one fingers of frost stack available to you. The reason is the Brain Freeze Talent. This allows you to cast an instant cast frostfire bolt. If you kept your fingers of frost stack at 1 then you can immediately use this free cast and crit with it!! this does massive damage. If you, like most players, use up your fingers of frost proc right away you will have to wait for your frostbolt to proc another fingers of frost stack so that your Free frostfire bolt does the maximum damage. its worthless to fire a frostfire bolt without fingers of frost in most situations. It does so much more damage if you guarantee that it crits. Fingers of frost can only stack 2 high, so if you cast a frost bolt and it gives you one more fingers of frost and you are sitting at 2 stacks, use an icelance to bring it back down to 1. Use your frost orb on cooldown, use deep freeze and pet freeze on cooldown. If I have any fingers of frost stacks before I pet freeze I icelance once or twice to clear my fingers of frost stacks and then pet freeze to renew it at 2 stacks. I then either icelance one away, or use deep freeze. Note: Pet freeze and deep freeze are usually used by me at the same time.
I know that was a lot as far as rotation goes but its good info.
Frost is very single target minded. Blizzard is good on many low hp mobs or in certain situations but mosty you are just going to be focusing on one target if you play frost, easily switching between targets, but mostly only casting on one at a time.
*****************SPEC*****************
Take 3 points out of arcane concentration. Put two points in netherwind presence. Take all the points out of Shattered barrier, reactive barrier, ice shards, and piercing chill.
in the fire tree put 3 in burning soul and 3 in ignite on the second row of fire talents.
Glyph Frostfire bolt, Frostbolt, and deep freeze.
The reason we want the ignite talent is that frostfire bolt counts as a fire spell, and if you use your free and instant frost fire bolt with a fingers of frost proc, it will crit and burn the mob for a good amount of additional damage.
Put points in improved freeze so that your pet gives you 2 fingers of frost procs when pet freeze is used.
*******Gear*******
Just run heroics and take any gear with int/stam and hit/crit/haste/mastery in that order.
once you hit 17% hit the order is crit/haste/mastery/hit
once you hit 33.33% crit raid buffed the order is haste/mastery/crit/hit
Idk im tired of typing now. I hope this all helped you out.
ill check this post in a bit, if you have any questions ill respond to them hopefully. here is a great raiding frost spec.
EDIT
Here is the link with included glyphs
http://www.wowhead.com/talent#o0bZfcZff0hsIszMo:RMaMqVVm0
guess not. ok
itt: post question, leave forever
I was actually curious about the same spec/glyphs, thanks Marcus :D
Thx for the info Marcus :D
ill get him started as soon as possible.
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