Frost Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.1

Welcome to our Frost Mage Gear for Midnight Season 2. Check this page to learn everything you need to know about gearing a Frost Mage, including the BiS Gear from all sources, Raiding, and Mythic+, information on the best Trinkets, Tier Sets, and much more.

Upgrading gear in Midnight continues to use the Crest system which lets you increase the item level of gear along tracks that relate to where you obtained the item, which harder content dropping gear that can be upgraded to higher Item Levels. For more information, read up on our dedicated page on how the gearing system works and what has changed in the Midnight expansion.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Frost Mage in Midnight Season 2.

Note that there is no such thing as a singular, all-encompassing "BiS". The best items vary per character and situation, and there are many items that are essentially equivalent in terms of DPS, namely when we are just shuffling secondary stats around. I will list one "BiS" item per slot, but ultimately, BiS lists should be taken as guidance, and you should be simming yourself to find out what gear to equip next.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 2 as a Frost Mage, the pieces you convert keep their stats and any cantrip effects. This functionally means that you should convert whatever slots you get at a high item level first. There is no benefit to one slot over another otherwise. However, the best in slot shoulder piece, is the actual tier token from the raid, as no other shoulder pieces have optimal stats.

Frost Mage

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Venomkeeper's Horrific Cowl Helm

Ula'tek Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Grasps of the Eternal Shadow Hands

Coiled Altar

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Martyr's Waistwrap Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Brood Cleanser's Amice Shoulders

Temple of Sethraliss Amirdrassil's Grace

Down-Lined Breeches Legs

King's Rest Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Silken Voodoo Drape Cloak

Coiled Altar

Cackling Soultreads Feet

Coiled Altar Lynx's Dexterity

Primordial Robe of Rites Chest

Altar of Fangs Mark of the Worldsoul

Sickening Signet of Atroxus Ring

Voidscar Arena Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Vile Alchemist's Band Ring

Vashnik Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag Trinket

Lost Explorers

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Wavecaller's Seastone Trinket

Tidebound Grotto

Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang Main Hand

Ula'tek Jan'alai's Precision

Frostscale's Mystic Frond Off Hand

Tidebound Grotto

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 2 Mythic+ Dungeons.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 2, the pieces you convert keep their stats and any cantrip effects. This functionally means that you should convert whatever slots you get at a high item level first. There is no benefit to one slot over another.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

If you have limited time to play the game, we recommend to farm the following dungeons:

• Altar of Fangs: Your main hand weapon, a trinket, and a handful of decent options to other pieces presented.
• Temple of Sethraliss: High budget pieces and a well statted staff to use while you try and get your MH/OH combo.
• Murder Row: BiS trinket.

Frost Mage

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Worldroot Canopy Helm

Blinding Vale Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Handwraps of Oscillating Polarity Hands

Temple of Sethraliss

Graft of the Domanaar Neck

Voidscar Arena

Martyr's Waistwrap Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Brood Cleanser's Amice Shoulders

Temple of Sethraliss Amirdrassil's Grace

Wind Soarer's Breeches Legs

Ruby Life Pools Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Bloodthorn Burnous Cloak

Blinding Vale

Tempestuous Sandals Feet

Murder Row Lynx's Dexterity

Robes of the Reborn Serpent Chest

Temple of Sethraliss Mark of the Worldsoul

Sickening Signet of Atroxus Ring

Voidscar Arena Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Charged Sandstone Band Ring

Temple of Sethraliss Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Knot of Writhing Serpents Trinket

Altar of Fangs

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Freightrunner's Flask Trinket

Murder Row

Polished Lightwood Channeler Main Hand

Altar of Fangs Jan'alai's Precision

Perennial Frostbound Charm Off Hand

Den of Nalorakk

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Venomous Abyss Raid.

This list is by no means a replacement for simming yourself. Depending on your previous Great Vault choices and the gear you have available to yourself, your BiS gear might look different than this list in some spots.

FAQWhich Tier Set Pieces Do I Want?

For Midnight Season 2 as a Frost Mage, the pieces you convert keep their stats and any cantrip effects. This functionally means that you should convert whatever slots you get at a high item level first. There is no benefit to one slot over another otherwise. However, the best in slot shoulder piece, is the actual tier token from the raid, as no other shoulder pieces have optimal stats.

Frost Mage

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Venomkeeper's Horrific Cowl Helm

Ula'tek Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Grasps of the Eternal Shadow Hands

Coiled Altar

Aqirbane Reliquary Neck

Ula'tek

Martyr's Waistwrap Waist

Crafted by Tailoring

Primal Leywarden's Manaflux Shoulders

Lost Explorers Amirdrassil's Grace

Initiate's Sacrificial Tights Legs

Nek'zali Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Silken Voodoo Drape Cloak

Coiled Altar

Cackling Soultreads Feet

Coiled Altar Lynx's Dexterity

Crest of the Primal Leywarden Chest

Vashnik Mark of the Worldsoul

Apex Brute's Claw Ring Ring

Sszorak Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Vile Alchemist's Band Ring

Vashnik Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Gebbo's Bottomless Bag Trinket

Lost Explorers

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Wavecaller's Seastone Trinket

Tidebound Grotto

Jan'thrazet, the Soul Fang Main Hand

Ula'tek Jan'alai's Precision

Frostscale's Mystic Frond Off Hand

Tidebound Grotto

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

Looking to optimize your character? Check out our Enchant and Stat Priority guides for more information!

EnchantsStats

Nebulous Voidcores can be spent to roll for an extra item off the boss, dungeon, or delve you have completed. Which piece you are given is random, but it will remove it from the potential loot pool until you have seen every item once. This allows you to target specific pieces of gear from specific locations.

What item you are looking for is going to depend heavily on what you have, what you need, and what content you can feasibly finish yourself. The priority is as follows:

Voidcore (Bonus Roll) Priority

1. Ula'tek on Heroic (or Mythic) provides the single best DPS benefit due to the high concentration of extremely powerful cantrip items.
2. Remaining BiS List items

Professions are a wonderful way to fill out slots you have had no luck in filling out, and additionally provide a small power boost through Embellishments.

Since crafted gear is time gated, and gearing is not instant, the wisest decision early season is to craft a staff. While this does mean that you end up crafting an offhand later, wasting more Sparks and Crests, it provides the single largest power boost in the early parts of a season. Work on your other Embellished item afterwards.

Frost Crafted Gear Priority

• Aln'hara Cane with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt
• Martyr's Bindings with Arcanoweave Lining
• Arcanoweave Cord after you have obtained your Main Hand/Off-Hand combo to replace your staff
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.

A staff, while not best in slot, is still the single largest DPS gain you can obtain early season. Consider holding off if you feel you are likely to kill Ula'tek on Heroic early season and instead go directly for the Bracers and Belt.

For more information on how you can craft your own gear, you can visit our Professions page.

Up to two of your crafted items can be Embellished. This is a similar concept as Unique-Equipped, as you can only wear two items that have the Embellished status. Some crafted items, many of which have powerful procs or beneficial effects by default, are considered Embellished. You can also add Embellishments from a variety of professions to any crafted item, adding the effect to this item either when creating it or at a later stage.

You may also remove an Embellishment that you have added to a piece of gear, if you end up in a situation where you would need to change what item has the bonus, or something gets tuned. This can be achieved by recrafting the first with Lucky Keychain, which will remove the bonus and allow you to craft something else with a new Embellishment.

Currently, the best options are Arcanoweave Cord, and Arcanoweave Lining on a low-importance slot, such as Bracers or Cloak.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Miasmic Jewelbinder consumable that you can get if you do not select any of the choices in your Great Vault. Not picking a choice will grant you tokens, six of which can be traded in for the Miasmic Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if you acquired them in Season 2.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Myth Mistcrest. Once you have upgraded a slot to a certain item level, upgrading other items of that slot to that item level costs no crests.

When you upgrade with Crests, you should think of it as upgrading slots and not items.

Additionally, since Crests are a limited resource, you will want to obtain the highest item-level possible before upgrading a given slot, as this means you will spend fewer Crests on that slot in total. If you are at all capable of doing a +10 Dungeon (3/6 Hero), for example, it would be a VERY bad idea to upgrade an item from a +9 Dungeon (2/6 Hero), because you just wasted 20 Crests that could have been saved by just farming the slot on a +10.

Crests in Midnight are track-specific, so there is no real penalty in upgrading Hero track pieces fully, and in fact can be beneficial as it will skip 20 Myth crests on the Myth 2 upgrade. This amounts to a full extra piece of gear, or a Myth crafted item, every month. For the average player who can only obtain Myth track from their weekly vault, this is a fairly important bonus.

We see a ton of players, even at a high level, mess up their upgrade priorities, and upgrading prematurely. Getting this right will put you far ahead of most players.

Below is the slot priority you should upgrade your items in. If you ever want to deviate from this, you should have a very good reason.

Frost Mage Crest Upgrade Priority

Weapon ➜ Trinket ➜ Helm/Chest/Legs ➜ Shoulder/Gloves/Belt/Boots ➜ Cloak/Bracer ➜ Neck/Ring

Throughout this page and elsewhere in our guide, we regularly refer to the importance of simming yourself on Raidbots. This is because every character is unique, and each gear piece you have access to can change what is best right now for you.

While we do offer recommendations for gear and trinkets, these are not complete replacements for simming yourself. The only way to truly optimize your character to that degree is by making use of the tools available!

Optimization

Simulations and Tools

For further reading on how to truly maximize your character's potential, check out our guide on Raidbots!

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