Frost vs Fire mages

[kadaan]

Ok,

If you are leveling 4 mages (which you are). Go frost

FROST

FROST

FROST



Why? Its way more efficient, cast times are quicker, and things DIE when you have multiple frost mages. Get frostbite and shatter on all 4, and just watch you own things.

Later, 4 water elementals is amazing, shatter combos are sick. Wind up 4 frost bolts, and lay a ranged frost nova right before they go off... thats 4 critting frostbolts...

Lastly when you get higher spec some in to the top of the arcane tree and get imp arcane explosion. That combined with a frost nova rotation, pretty much owns ANYTHING in your path.

If you want more reasons I can explain fully... but for lvling, FROST is by far better then fire.



Endgame? PVP? Either are viable. I'm currently playing pom pyro (duh), but I'm considering frost again.

What he said. 4x frostbite + shatter is insane damage. You can also afford to stack on more "of frost power" gear, as you'll be getting hit far less than you would as fire. People have their personal opinions, and mine is hands-down frost. (My experience with mages is solo only, did fire from 1-40 on a troll mage, frost 1-70 on a human mage.)

For normal non-boxing pvp, frost >>> fire for survivability. For a boxer, I think the 4x burst damage from PoM+Pyro, fire blast, and dragon's breath probably outweight the survivability of frost. Ice barrier/iceblock/elemental's nova/etc would be quite difficult to micromanage for pvp boxing.