Is Frost Mage good in Shadowlands PvE?

Mechanically, Frost is really the workhorse of Mage specs, with a tool for every situation and viability in all aspects of PvE and PvP. The spec excels at two-target cleave, and has a smooth damage profile.

What reduces the cooldown of icy veins?

critical hits
While Icy Veins is active, your critical hits reduce its cooldown by 0.8 sec.

How does Frost Mage work?

Frost Mages excel at stacked cleave encounters. Your cleave rotation (2-3 targets) is identical to your single target rotation, but you should take the Splitting Ice talent. You can start using the AoE rotation at 1 target with Freezing Rain, or 2+ with Cold Front. Without either of those effects, start at 3+ targets.

How hard is frost mage?

Frost mages are really easy to play in pve raids, just frostbolt and pop icy touch and water elemental. As for leveling, you can single target nuke (frostbolt spam, nova, frostbolt, icelance) or you can blizzard aoe. Pvp scales harder for someone new to frost mages.

Does icy veins affect Blizzard?

Like all haste effects, Icy Veins will speed up all channeled spells, such as [Blizzard] and [Evocation]. Note that spells will cast at the faster cast time even if the Icy Veins buff expires while mid-cast or mid-channel, meaning that the buff is effectively longer than the 20 second buff duration.

What level do you get icy veins?

level 29
Icy Veins is a level 29 Frost mage ability that increases the casting speed of all spells by 30% and prevents interruption caused by damage while casting for 20 seconds.

What spec is best for mage?

Although each specialization has strengths and weaknesses, we recommend Frost as the best Mage leveling spec. Frost Mages have a lot of control from snares and roots and can easily kite mobs while having significant burst damage from using the triple damage component of Ice Lance to stay healthy.