Frost Spec Mage Macro

[crowdx]

Hi all,
so I am currently running a frost mage in the team I am leveling and my macro is just a spam of frost bolt with icy veins thrown in as shown below. My question is, why can I not throw in Ice Barrier or some of casts in this sequence without it locking? Is it a limitation of some spells?
All help welcome
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#showtooltip Frostbolt
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","0")
/Cast Icy Veins
/click MultiBarRightButton1
/use 13
/use 14
/run SetCVar("Sound_EnableSFX","1")
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[Maxion]

I'm not sure why you want to cast, or even spec into ice barrier for a multiboxed mage, but you can see my mage's frost spec in her armory from the drop down menu by my name at the left of this post, and i think my frost macros in the thread linked in my signature are still up to date since i never really changed them. Just remember to get the main dps macro and the pop cooldowns one.

And if you get the "addon" from http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-a...ject-8021.aspx
You won't need the SFX lines in your macros anymore.

[crowdx]

Well I have a main arcane mage but I was just playing this one frost to see how he would fair.
I see your build is a mix of arcane and frost. I suppose the point that was missed is that is the reason that I can add /Cast Icy Veins and it works fine whereas if I try to add in frost barrier it does not work, might it be a GCD vs a non GCD spell? Same sort of issue would be if I tried to use Bark Skin on my druid!
I am going to try your above setup to see how it works

[Maxion]

Well I have a main arcane mage but I was just playing this one frost to see how he would fair.
I see your build is a mix of arcane and frost. I suppose the point that was missed is that is the reason that I can add /Cast Icy Veins and it works fine whereas if I try to add in frost barrier it does not work, might it be a GCD vs a non GCD spell? Same sort of issue would be if I tried to use Bark Skin on my druid!
I am going to try your above setup to see how it works

That is exactly it, and I've been running my mage exclusively as frost until ahune this year, since he was immune to frost, and in general wanted to try arcane since I didn't dare join any serious raids on my mage as frost.
Arcane does a fair amount more dps, but runs out of mana a lot faster, and frost will get you far, until 4-5k dps in badge gear just isn't enough anymore.
The replenishment from frost is also very nice if the mage is your only source of it. With my mage as frost, my team would never run out of mana.

[Catamer]

frost spec only uses one spell, no click macro needed if you ask me
( sorry, I can't logon and get my exact macro right now but off hand this is close to it )

/cast [nopet,mod] <<<< summon water pet <<<<
/cast [combat,mod] mirror image
/cast icy viens
/cast frost bolt

I love frost spec when mboxing.
the macro is super easy.
my others never run out of mana when I use it.

I get the most dps out of arcane though when raiding.

[gunsun]

i don't use a /click macro but a castsequence reset=combat frost bolt, ice lance, frostfire bolt takes advantage of some of the frost talents. Every now and then the frostfire bolt is insta-cast and no mana, and the ice lance usually crits or is instant if not.

[pinotnoir]

Once your mages hit 80 spec arcane its a huge dps increase.

[crowdx]

Once your mages hit 80 spec arcane its a huge dps increase.

As said above, I already have an arcane mage in another team but wanted to try frost while leveling this team

[pinotnoir]

As said above, I already have an arcane mage in another team but wanted to try frost while leveling this team

I tried to find my old frost mage macro but I think it got deleted. I leveled frost and changed to arcane at 80 on my new mage. It was basic with icey veins, and frostbolt. I had the glyph for perma elemental.

[crowdx]

So I played around a little more with the hybrid frost/arcane spec and my dps is at about 60% of my destro lock. I just respecced full arcane on the mage to see the difference and will report back later tonight. I wiped twice in Nexus (my team is lvl 73 and so should have face rolled this) on the last boss simply due to not enough firepower, hopefully speccing arcane will bring the mage in line with my lock and ele shaman which are both putting out similar numbers (lock is about 150 dps ahead but that is close enough while leveling )