Frost Mage DPS Gear and Best in Slot — 12.0.5

Welcome to our Frost Mage Gear for Midnight Season 1. 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.

With the release of Midnight, all items have been squished to a lower level.

OverallMythic+Raid

This list contains the Best in Slot Gear for Frost Mage in Midnight Season 1.

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 1 as an Frost Mage, you will want to try and prioritize getting the Helmet, Chest, Gloves, and Legs set pieces. However, getting the Shoulders to complete one of the bonuses is still better than any other gearing choice.

Frost Mage

1.1.

Overall Best in Slot

Voidbreaker's Veil Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Voidbreaker's Gloves Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Voidbreaker's Sage Cord Waist

Catalyst

Mantle of Dark Devotion Shoulders

Catalyst or Fallen-King Salhadaar Amirdrassil's Grace

Voidbreaker's Britches Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Rigid Scale Greatcloak Cloak

Skyreach

Dream-Scorched Striders Feet

Chimaerus Lynx's Dexterity

Voidbreaker's Robe Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Vaelgor's Final Stare Trinket

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Skybreaker's Blade Main Hand

Skyreach Jan'alai's Precision

Aln'hara Lantern Off Hand

Crafted by Inscription

This list contains the highest DPS setup with farmable gear from Season 1 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.

TipsWhich Dungeons Should I Farm?

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

• Windrunner Spire: Both trinkets come from here, as well as shoulders.
• Nexus-Point Xenas: The ring set.
• Pit of Saron: Neck and boots.

Frost Mage

1.2.

Best Mythic+ Gear

Voidbreaker's Veil Helm

Catalyst Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Voidbreaker's Gloves Hands

Catalyst

Barbed Ymirheim Choker Neck

Pit of Saron

Voidbreaker's Sage Cord Waist

Catalyst

Mantle of Dark Devotion Shoulders

Windrunner Spire Amirdrassil's Grace

Voidbreaker's Britches Legs

Catalyst Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Rigid Scale Greatcloak Cloak

Skyreach

Ice-Steeped Sandals Feet

Pit of Saron Lynx's Dexterity

Voidbreaker's Robe Chest

Catalyst Mark of the Worldsoul

Occlusion of Void Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Omission of Light Ring

Nexus-Point Xenas Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Emberwing Feather Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Heart of Wind Trinket

Windrunner Spire

Aln'hara Cane Main Hand

Crafted by Inscription Jan'alai's Precision

Aln'hara Cane Off Hand

Crafted by Inscription Jan'alai's Precision

This list contains the highest DPS setup, only using gear from the Dreamrift, Voidspire, and March on Quel'Danas 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.

TipsWhich Raid-Items Do I Want Most?

If you need to submit a list of highly-important items to your raidleader, or simply want to focus on the most important bosses and items, we got you covered!

• Gaze of the Alnseer: Our best trinket. Drops from Chimaerus, who also drops our tier chest and our BiS boots.
• Vaelgor's Final Stare: Our other best trinket. Drops from Vaelgor and Ezzorak who also drops tier pants and our best cloak.

Frost Mage

1.3.

Best Raid Gear

Voidbreaker's Veil Helm

Catalyst or Lightblinded Vanguard Empowered Rune of Avoidance

Voidbreaker's Gloves Hands

Catalyst or Vorasius

Amulet of the Abyssal Hymn Neck

Midnight Falls

Voidbreaker's Sage Cord Waist

Catalyst

Echoing Void Mantle Shoulders

Belo'ren Amirdrassil's Grace

Voidbreaker's Britches Legs

Catalyst or Vaelgor and Ezzorak Sunfire Silk Spellthread

Draconic Nullcape Cloak

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Dream-Scorched Striders Feet

Chimaerus Lynx's Dexterity

Voidbreaker's Robe Chest

Catalyst or Chimaerus Mark of the Worldsoul

Sin'dorei Band of Hope Ring

Belo'ren Eyes of the Eagle

Shirt

Eye of Midnight Ring

Midnight Falls Eyes of the Eagle

Tabard

Vaelgor's Final Stare Trinket

Vaelgor and Ezzorak

Martyr's Bindings Bracers

Crafted by Tailoring

Gaze of the Alnseer Trinket

Chimaerus

Aln'hara Cane Main Hand

Crafted by Inscription Jan'alai's Precision

Aln'hara Cane Off Hand

Crafted by Inscription Jan'alai's Precision

Itemization

Enchants and Stat Priority

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

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Unfortunately, there are very few caster trinkets this season that come within a reasonable distance of the top pair in Midnight Season 1. Even picking up Hero track versions of the top pair will beat Myth track of anything else.

Usually, Blizzard will not let such situations stand for very long, so there is a high chance that this list will change alongside the class tuning. Check back shortly after each hotfix set!

Frost Mage Trinkets

Vaelgor's Final Stare, Myth or Hero track
Gaze of the Alnseer, Myth or Hero track

A "Tier" as defined by this list is around 0.5% DPS, meaning that S-Tier Trinkets are around 0.5% better than A-Tier Trinkets, and so on.

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Ranking	Trinket
S Tier	Vaelgor's Final Stare Gaze of the Alnseer
A Tier	Nothing comes within 0.5% of the S Tier trinkets
B Tier	Vaelgor's Final Stare on Hero track Gaze of the Alnseer on Hero track Locus-Walker's Ribbon
C Tier	Emberwing Feather Heart of Wind Soulcatcher's Charm Shadow of the Empyrean Requiem

Patch 12.0.5 introduces two new, yet familiar systems:

• Nebulous Voidcore 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.
• Ascendant Voidcore increases the item level of Hero, Myth, or crafted items that are already fully upgraded otherwise. This only works on weapons and trinkets.

Seasonal Mechanics

Voidforge and Voidcores

Check our our guide on the Voidforge to learn how to acquire this powerful upgrades!

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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. Skybreaker's Blade from Skyreach (which also can provide your BiS cloak, and BiS boots for non-Mythic raiders)
2. Gaze of the Alnseer, be it Hero or Myth
3. Remaining BiS List items

Using your Ascendant Voidcores follows a similar priority list as using your Crests.

1. Your weapon is the highest priority
2. Gaze of the Alnseer
3. Any other trinket

You will also want to prioritize Myth track items over Hero track ones, unless you do not expect to get a Myth track variant of said item. It is fine to upgrade a Hero track Gaze of the Alnseer if you do not expect to kill Mythic Chimaerus.

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.

Please check out our page on the profession system for more information:

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
• Any item you do not have on Myth track yet.
• If you at some point get a Crit/Mastery main hand on Myth track, craft Aln'hara Lantern with Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt.

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 Darkmoon Sigil: Hunt on a weapon, and Arcanoweave Lining on a low-importance slot, such as Bracers or Cloak. You may also instead opt for two Arcanoweave Linings, and no Darkmoon Sigil if that is preferable to you; the difference is extremely minor.

You can add sockets to Helmets, Belts, and Bracers with the Radiant 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 Radiant Jewelbinder item that allows you to add a socket to the above piece of gear, if you acquired them in Season 1.

You will be able to upgrade your items via Crests such as Myth Dawncrest. 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

Please check out our page on the upgrade system for more information.

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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This guide has been written by Kuni, one of the best Frost Mages in the world, who raids in Mortal Desire.