Mage Frost Rotation & Opener

First ~12 casts of actual top-ranked kills. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Frostbolt 2 Flurry 3 Light's PotentialOff-GCD 4 ShimmerOff-GCD 5 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 6 Ray of Frost 7 Ice Lance 8 Ice Lance 9 Frozen Orb 10 Flurry 11 Ice Lance 12 Ray of Frost 13 Ice Lance 14 Ice Lance 15 Ice Lance

1 Frostbolt 2 Flurry 3 Time WarpOff-GCD 4 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 5 Ray of Frost 6 Ice Lance 7 Frozen Orb 8 Ice Lance 9 Flurry 10 Ice Lance 11 Ice Lance 12 Ray of Frost 13 Ice Lance 14 Ice Lance 15 Glacial Spike

1 Frostbolt 2 Flurry 3 Time WarpOff-GCD 4 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 5 Ray of Frost 6 Ice Lance 7 Frozen Orb 8 Ice Lance 9 Flurry 10 Ice Lance 11 Ice Lance 12 Ice Lance 13 Glacial Spike 14 Flurry 15 Ice Lance

#showtooltip Frostbolt
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Frostbolt

Ability	Top-player CPM
Ice Lance	22.4
Flurry	7.3
Frostbolt	4.8
Glacial Spike	4.4
Frozen Orb	1.9
Ray of Frost	1.7
ShimmerOff-GCD	1.5
Ice Barrier	1.1
Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD	0.7
Ice ColdOff-GCD	0.3

CPM = median casts per minute across the sampled top kills. If you're far below on a core ability, that's usually the first thing to fix.

First ~12 casts after the pull starts, taken from actual top key runs: the AoE opener is the first pack of the run, the single-target opener is the first boss. Trinkets and racials vary by setup; the skill order is what to copy.

1 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 2 Ray of Frost 3 ShimmerOff-GCD 4 Ice Barrier 5 Flurry 6 Time WarpOff-GCD 7 Frozen Orb 8 Ice Barrier 9 Flurry 10 Ice Lance 11 Flurry 12 Glacial Spike 13 Frostfire Bolt 14 Ice Lance 15 Glacial Spike

1 Ice Barrier 2 Flurry 3 Frozen Orb 4 Ice ColdOff-GCD 5 Blizzard 6 Flurry 7 Ray of Frost 8 Ice Barrier 9 Ice Lance 10 Ice Lance 11 Ice Lance 12 Blizzard 13 Glacial Spike 14 Flurry 15 Ice Lance

1 Mirror Image 2 Frozen Orb 3 Time WarpOff-GCD 4 Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD 5 Flurry 6 Ray of Frost 7 Ice Lance 8 Ice Lance 9 Ice Lance 10 Ice Lance 11 Ice Lance 12 Ray of Frost 13 Ice Lance 14 Ice Lance 15 Ice Lance

#showtooltip Ray of Frost
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Ice Cold
/cast Ray of Frost

Collected from public Patch 12.1 guides and checked for this patch. Spell names follow the language you selected on this site and must match your game client. If a macro does not work on your client, report it with the button on the card.

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cast Blink

#showtooltip
/stopcasting
/cancelaura Ice Block
/cast Ice Block

/cancelaura Ice Block

/cancelaura Alter Time

#showtooltip
/use [@mouseover]Remove Curse

#showtooltip
/use [@cursor]Blizzard

#showtooltip
/use [@cursor]Freeze

/petattack

Keybinds are personal — this is not a layout to copy wholesale. What it does say is which abilities you press most, measured from the same top parses above: the more often an ability is cast, the less effort its key should take. Interrupts, defensives and movement are deliberately left out; they barely register in cast data yet must always be within reach, so choose those yourself.

Rows marked Passive are not pressed at all — they fire on their own (auto-attacks, procs) and get no key, even though they top the casts-per-minute table.

Key	Ability	Top-player CPM
1	Ice Lance	22.4
2	Frostfire Bolt	11.3
3	Flurry	7.3
4	Frostbolt	4.8
5	Glacial Spike	4.6
Z	Frozen Orb	1.9
X	Ray of Frost	1.7
C	Ice Barrier	1.6
V	ShimmerOff-GCD	1.5
R	Comet Storm	1.1
F	Freightrunner's FlaskOff-GCD	0.7
T	Ice ColdOff-GCD	0.3