Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, though, we’re all about frost mages. In case you aren’t one, frost mages are the spec to be when fighting anything in Molten Core in 2005.

Just kidding. I kid because I love, guys. If the joke hits a little too close to home, though, it’s because there’s a very real, very prevalent, very false perception out there. It goes something like this:

Frost is for PVP. It isn’t viable for raiding.

This sentiment has been around at various levels of general acceptance since patch 1.1, and even in the most enlightened corners of Azeroth, you’ll still find those willing to perpetuate it. But then again, you’ll also find people still willing to perpetuate things like racism and gender bias, so I guess ignorance, like a weed or a cockroach or a warlock, is remarkably resilient.

At any rate, in today’s State of the Frost Mage address, you’ll no doubt discover a recurring theme. That theme is this:

Frost is absolutely, positively viable.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The state of the frost mageFiled under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane BrillianceArcane Brilliance: The state of the frost mage originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Every week, WoW Insider brings you Arcane Brilliance for arcane, fire and frost mages. This week, though, we’re all about frost mages. In case you aren’t one, frost mages are the spec to be when fighting anything in Molten Core in 2005.

Just kidding. I kid because I love, guys. If the joke hits a little too close to home, though, it’s because there’s a very real, very prevalent, very false perception out there. It goes something like this:

Frost is for PVP. It isn’t viable for raiding.

This sentiment has been around at various levels of general acceptance since patch 1.1, and even in the most enlightened corners of Azeroth, you’ll still find those willing to perpetuate it. But then again, you’ll also find people still willing to perpetuate things like racism and gender bias, so I guess ignorance, like a weed or a cockroach or a warlock, is remarkably resilient.

At any rate, in today’s State of the Frost Mage address, you’ll no doubt discover a recurring theme. That theme is this:

Frost is absolutely, positively viable.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The state of the frost mageFiled under: Mage, Analysis / Opinion, (Mage) Arcane BrillianceArcane Brilliance: The state of the frost mage originally appeared on WoW Insider on Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. | Permalink | Email this | Comments