Frost Mage DPS Best Gems, Enchants, and Consumables — 12.0.5

Make sure you have one Indecipherable Eversong Diamond somewhere in your gear. This is the most valued gem out of all of them. Beyond that, fill any other sockets with Flawless Masterful Garnet.

Optimizations

Stats and Simulations

Not satisfied with standard recommendations? Jump to these two guides to find out more about what your stats do, and how to fully optimize them.

StatsRaidbots Guide

Make sure to apply Thalassian Phoenix Oil to your weapon for all content.

Slot	Enchantment
Rings	Enchant Ring - Eyes of the Eagle or whatever your sim tells you to run. The practical difference is tiny.
Weapon	Enchant Weapon - Jan'alai's Precision
Chest	Enchant Chest - Mark of the Worldsoul
Head	Enchant Helm - Empowered Rune of Avoidance as a default, but tertiary stat enchants tend to be personal choice. Use whichever calls to you.
Shoulders	Enchant Shoulders - Amirdrassil's Grace as a default, but tertiary stat enchants tend to be personal choice. Use whichever calls to you.
Boots	Enchant Boots - Lynx's Dexterity as a default, but tertiary stat enchants tend to be personal choice. Use whichever calls to you.
Legs	Sunfire Silk Spellthread

The deciding factor between Avoidance and Speed is simply if you feel like taking a minor amount less damage compared to moving faster at all times. You can make the argument for each in every scenario, even in extremely high-end content. Avoidance lets you survive larger hits; Speed gives you more leeway to run out of an AoE effect. You can pick whichever effect you prefer here.

For comparisons, full Avoidance enchants grant 4.54% of the stat, full Leech provides 3.52% of your damage as healing, and full Speed is 11.4% more movement speed.

Gear Information

Best in Slot Gear and Where to Get It

Before applying gems and enchants to your equipment, make sure to check whether there might be an easy-to-get item that is better than the one you're currently wearing!

Gear

In addition to enchants and improvements to your gear, making sure you come prepared with the right consumables to endgame content has a big impact on your performance.

You should be drinking the Flask of the Shattered Sun at all times.

Potion of Recklessness is the best DPS potion to use.

You should also keep a stock of Silvermoon Health Potions to use when at low health, and if you have a Warlock in the group, grab their Healthstones and use them as well. Do not macro these together, they are best used separately!

We recommend eating from the Harandar Celebration or Silvermoon Parade when possible, and if no feast is provided for your group, use personal food ( Royal Roast or Impossibly Royal Roast).

In addition, if you can afford it, you should use Void-Touched Augment Runes to increase your primary stat. Augment Runes are expensive, and disappear on death, so use them wisely!

Professions

Create and Craft Your Own Consumables

While you can simply buy all these items from the Auction House, you may want to craft them yourself and sell the leftovers instead with our Icy Veins Profession Guides!

Midnight Professions Guide

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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.