Frost Mage Midnight Gearing Guide

Midnight Season 1 Tier Set Bonuses:

• (2) Set Bonus: Flurry damage increased by 10%, and Flurry has a 10% chance to grant Fingers Of Frost.
• (4) Set Bonus: Fingers Of Frost increases Shatter's damage by 15%.

Tier Set Discussion: Non-gameplay-changing tier set. Slightly makes your Flurry and Ice Lance with Fingers Of Frost proc stronger, but your gameplay isn’t affected at all, whether you have or don’t have this tier set.

You should still prioritise the gear you use by running a sim for your character, but the lists below will give you a good idea of what items are considered good for Frost Mage, and help you target the right content for each piece of loot.

• Overall
• Raiding
• Mythic+

There are only a few, well-tuned trinkets currently in Midnight for Frost Mage, two from raid and one from dungeons.

Vaelgor's Final Stare - 1.5 minute on-use trinket that grants a large amount of Mastery.Its high amount of mastery granted upon use makes it the BiS trinket.

Gaze Of The Alnseer - Passive trinket that has a chance to grant Intellect. Second BiS trinket.

Locus-Walker's Ribbon - Passive trinket that has a chance to grant you an Intellect buff. The longer you remain in combat, the stronger the buff becomes, and it quickly decays if you leave combat. Very similar to Eye Of Kezan trinket from The War Within expansion.

Emberwing Feather - 2 minute on-use trinket which grants you haste and has a low chance to also decrease one of your secondary stats by a low amount. Great on-use trinket which you can combine with a Frozen Orb or Ray Of Frost. A good alternative trinket which drops from dungeons.

The current best performing Embellishments in Midnight for Frost Mage is 2x Arcanoweave Lining, which can be crafted on any armor piece. I highly recommend crafting it on low stat budget pieces, such as Cloak and Wrists.

Alternatively, I would recommend crafting a 2-hander Staff (Aln'hara Cane) early into the season due to the massive number of stats weapons provide.

These Embellishments are BiS for both raid and M+.

Bonus Rolls (Nebulous Voidcores)

With the patch 12.0.5, Blizzard has brought back bonus rolls (Nebulous Voidcores), which can be used to receive a guaranteed item at the end of a Mythic+ run or after slaying a raid boss. I highly recommend to target BiS trinkets, specifically Gaze Of The Alnseer and Vaelgor's Final Stare on the Mythic difficulty first. That means you would use the bonus roll after slaying Chimareus or Vaelgor and Ezzorak.

If you already own both of these trinkets, you can start targeting high item level tier pieces and rings. Keep in mind that if you intend to use the bonus roll in an m+ dungeon, you should do so if the keystone is +10 or higher, since that will reward you with a 1/6 mythic piece.

Voidforging (Ascendant Voidcores)

With the new patch, you can also upgrade an item of your choosing beyond the item level cap. To do so, you will need to unlock the Voidforge and then start collecting Ascendant Voidcores, which can be spent to upgrade individual items. You will be able to upgrade each item once and should prioritize:

1. Mythic track weapons
2. Crafted weapons
3. Mythic track trinkets

The maximum item level that the item can be upgraded to is 298. Crafted items can only be upgraded to 295.