WotLK Classic Frost Mage Enchants and Consumables

In Wrath of the Lich King, consumable and enchant requirements for Frost Mage has been eased in comparison to TBC (no more Weapon oil and Drink), so every Mage will be expected to bring them. Below you will find a list of required consumables and enchants for playing a Frost Mage in PvE.

If you would like to know the logic behind which stats to prioritize with your gems and enchants, be sure to check out the Frost Mage stats page below as well.

Slot	Enchantment
Head	Arcanum of Burning Mysteries from Kirin Tor (Revered)
Shoulders	Greater Inscription of the Storm or Master's Inscription of the Storm from Sons of Hodir (Exalted) or Inscription.
Back	Lightweave Embroidery from Tailoring > Springy Arachnoweave from Engineering > Enchant Cloak - Greater Speed
Chest	Enchant Chest - Powerful Stats
Wrists	Enchant Bracers - Superior Spellpower
Gloves	Hyperspeed Accelerators from Engineering > Enchant Gloves - Exceptional Spellpower
Waist	Eternal Belt Buckle from Blacksmithing (usable by non-Blacksmiths) and Frag Belt from Engineering — these enhancements stack
Legs	Sanctified Spellthread (Tailoring only) or Brilliant Spellthread from Tailoring (usable by anyone but more expensive)
Feet	Nitro Boosts from Engineering > Enchant Boots - Icewalker or Enchant Boots - Tuskarr's Vitality, depending on personal preference
Finger	Enchant Ring - Greater Spellpower (Enchanting only)
One-Handed Weapons	Enchant Weapon - Mighty Spellpower ≥ Enchant Weapon - Black Magic
Staves	Enchant Staff - Greater Spellpower

The gem choices in Wrath of the Lich King are really clear, and you can find them in the table below:

Colour	Rare Version	Epic Version	Comment
Meta	Chaotic Skyflare Diamond		Best Meta Gem. Requires two blue, purple, or green gems to activate.
Red	Runed Scarlet Ruby	Runed Cardinal Ruby Runed Dragon's Eye Runed Stormjewel (Unique)	Best Red Gem. Runed Dragon's Eye is for Jewelcrafters only. From Phase 2 onwards, Runed Stormjewel is a rare drop from Bag of Fishing Treasures; this bag is a quest reward from the fishing daily quests that Marcia Chase in Dalaran offers.
Blue	Purified Twilight Opal	Purified Dreadstone	Best Blue Gem unless you need Hit from a green gem.
Orange	Veiled Monarch Topaz Reckless Monarch Topaz	Veiled Ametrine Reckless Ametrine	Best Yellow Gem. Veiled when you need Hit, Reckless if not.
Yellow	Rigid Autumn's Glow	Rigid King's Amber Rigid Dragon's Eye	Usually worse than Orange gems. Dragon's Eye is for Jewelcrafters only.
Green	Vivid Forest Emerald Forceful Forest Emerald	Vivid Eye of Zul Forceful Eye of Zul	Usually the last choice for Hit/Haste. Try to avoid this gem.

Use Fish Feast, Tender Shoveltusk Steak, or Firecracker Salmon. They provide you with 46 Spell damage and 40 Stamina for 1 hour. If you lack a lot of Hit, Snapper Extreme provides you with 40 Hit Rating and Stamina, but this is usually worse than using gems to reach your Hit cap.

Flask of the Frost Wyrm is the most powerful Alchemy consumable available. The alternatives are all worse; do not bother with them.

Potion of Speed, Potion of Wild Magic, Runic Mana Injector (with Engineering you gain bonus Mana), and Runic Mana Potion are the potions of choice. However, Potion of Speed is the strongest option, unless your casts go below global cooldown (1 second) cast time. In that case, you want to use Potion of Wild Magic. A feature of WotLK is that potions only have a 1-minute cooldown. However, that feature quickly gets negated by the fact that you can only use one potion per fight. The solution to this is to pre-pot Potion of Speed or Potion of Wild Magic 1 second before the boss fight starts (look at your boss mod timer). As you took the potion out of combat, it only induces the 1-minute cooldown, but then you may use another potion during combat. Using Mana potions in and between trash pulls is a valid option.

Mana Sapphire, Scroll of Spirit VIII (if no Priest with Divine Spirit is around), and Heavy Frostweave Bandage belong to your standard consumable repertoire.

Three rather niche consumables that do not hurt to use are Greater Rune of Warding and Dark Runes/ Demonic Runes. The Rune of Warding gives you a chance to absorb a little bit of Physical damage (useful when taking cleave damage) and the Dark/Demonic Runes restore a tiny amount of Mana. Using either of them induces a 15-minute cooldown on itself and a 2-minute cooldown on the other. In other words, if you use a Dark Rune it will get a 15-minute cooldown and you will have to wait 2 minutes before you can use a Demonic Rune, and vice-versa. Using the latter two consumables will not cost you a lot and can help you to overcome the time until your next Evocation or Mana Gem is ready.

As Engineering is the best profession for any DPS, you should have it. This is because of the strong enchants and utility Engineering provides and because of your main damage-providing consumables, Global Thermal Sapper Charge and Saronite Bomb. Make sure to make a Saronite Bomb macro like this:

• #showtooltip Saronite Bomb
• /use [@cursor] Saronite Bomb
• /cast Frostbolt
• /cqs

This will throw the Saronite Bomb at your cursor position and then cast Frostbolt on your target. Another option would be to change [@cursor] into [@player] and Frostbolt into Arcane Explosion, so the macro will throw the Saronite Bomb at your position when you are in melee range for casting Arcane Explosion. The condition [@cursor] will throw the bomb at your cursor position. You can be very creative with these kinds of macros.