Frost Mage leveling build (10–60)

How to play it

• Frostbolt, Frost Nova, back up, Frostbolt. Ice Lance at 20 is your frozen-target nuke (300% damage on frozen); Shatter at 25 makes those crits.
• Fingers of Frost at 30 means a Frostbolt chill can treat your next two spells as frozen: Ice Lance twice. Cold Snap resets Frost Nova and Ice Block.
• Ice Barrier at 40 absorbs and adds 15% Frost damage while up. Improved Blizzard for AoE grinding in groups of 4+.
• Arcane after 40 points in Frost: Arcane Resilience, Improved Channeling and Arcane Concentration for clearcasting.

Talents taken

Arcane (11)

• Improved Channeling 2/5: Gives your Arcane Missiles spell a 40% chance and your Arcane Blast and Arcane Wrath spells a 28% chance to not lose casting time when you take damage.
• Arcane Resilience 3/3: Increases your Armor by an amount equal to 75% of your Intellect.
• Arcane Subtlety 1/2: Reduces your target's resistance to all your spells by 8 and reduces the threat caused by your Arcane spells by 15%.
• Arcane Concentration 5/5: Gives you a 10% chance of entering a Clearcasting state after any damage spell hits a target. The Clearcasting state reduces the mana cost of your next damage spell by 100%.

Frost (40)

• Improved Frostbolt 5/5: Reduces the casting time of your Frostbolt spell by 0.5 sec.
• Precision 3/3: Improves your chance to hit with all spells by 6%.
• Ice Shards 5/5: Increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Frost spells by 100%.
• Frostbite 2/3: Gives your Chill effects a 10% chance to Freeze the target for 5 sec.
• Improved Frost Nova 2/2: Reduces the cooldown of your Frost Nova spell by 4 sec.
• Permafrost 2/3: Increases the duration of your Chill effects by 22% and reduces the target's speed by an additional 7%.
• Frost Channeling 3/3: Reduces the mana cost of your Frost spells by 15% and reduces the threat caused by your Frost spells by 30%.
• Improved Blizzard 2/3: Adds a Chill effect to your Blizzard spell. This effect lowers the target's movement speed by 25% for 1.5 sec.
• Ice Lance 1/1: Deals 28 to 32 Frost damage to an enemy target. Deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets.
• Arctic Reach 2/2: Increases the range of your Frostbolt, Ice Lance, and Blizzard spells and the radius of your Frost Nova and Cone of Cold spells by 20%.
• Ice Block 1/1: You become encased in a block of ice, protecting you from all physical attacks and spells for 10 sec, but during that time you cannot attack, move, or cast spells.
• Shatter 3/3: Increases the critical strike chance of all your spells against Frozen targets by 50%.
• Cold Snap 1/1: Finishes the remaining cooldown on all your other Frost spells.
• Fingers of Frost 2/2: Gives your Chill effects a 15% chance to grant you the Fingers of Frost effect, which treats your next 2 spells cast as if the target were Frozen. Lasts 15 sec.
• Winter's Chill 5/5: Gives your Frostbolt and Fingers of Frost empowered Ice Lance spells a 100% chance to apply Winter's Chill, increasing the target's damage taken from your next Cone of Cold by 20% and it gains an additional 7% of your spell damage, stacking up to 5 times.
• Ice Barrier 1/1: Shield yourself, absorbing 447 damage and increasing your Frost damage by 15% for 1 min. While shielded, your Frost damage is increased by an additional 5% and you do not lose casting time when you take damage.

Point order by level

First point at level 10 (set the Talented perk in the calculator if you start earlier).