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Frost Mage solo leveling 10–20

A theory Frost start for solo leveling from 10 to 20. It shortens Frostbolt, lengthens Chill, shortens Frost Nova, then adds Ice Lance for Frozen targets. This site has not playtested the order.

MageFrostDamageSolo leveling10–20Arcane 0Fire 0Frost 11Checked 5 Nov

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Arcane

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Frost

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Who this is for

  • Solo questing that already uses Frostbolt and Frost Nova. This order shortens Frostbolt by 0.5 seconds at rank 5 and shortens Nova cooldown by 4 seconds.
  • Players who will Ice Lance after Nova. Ice Lance’s 300% increased damage to Frozen targets is the recorded rank 1 tooltip (28–32 Frost damage, 8 sec cooldown).

Who should skip it

  • Anyone who wants Precision’s hit chance on row 1 instead of a shorter Frostbolt. That swap is an alternative, not this sequence.
  • Frostbite Freeze procs are not in this plan. Random Chill Freeze is not part of the order.

Milestones

  1. Level 10: First point

    Improved Frostbolt 1/5. Cast time −0.1 sec. Frost Nova rank 1 is also trained at 10.

  2. Level 14: Five Frost points spent

    Improved Frostbolt 5/5 is −0.5 sec. Row 2 is legal; Permafrost is the spend at 15, not at 14.

  3. Level 15: Permafrost starts

    The sixth point is Permafrost 1/3. Chill duration and extra slow begin here.

  4. Level 19: Ten Frost points spent

    Permafrost 3/3 and Improved Frost Nova 2/2. Ice Lance is legal as the 11th point at 20.

  5. Level 20: Plan complete

    Ice Lance 1/1. The trainer also lists Ice Lance rank 1 at 20 (45 Mana). Use it on Frozen targets after Nova.

How to play it

  • Frostbolt is the spell this order shortens (rank 3 at 14: 50 Mana; rank 4 at 20: 65 Mana; spellbook beta). Cast from range. Fireball and Fire Blast stay at trainer ranks; this tree does not change them.
  • Frost Nova rank 1 is trained at 10 (55 Mana). That is the Freeze this plan uses. Ice Lance rank 1 is trained at 20 (45 Mana, 8 sec cooldown) and this plan’s 11th talent is Ice Lance (28–32 Frost damage, 300% increased damage to Frozen targets). Do not Ice Lance before 20: the spell and the talent both sit at 20. Cone of Cold is rank 1 at 26, so it is not in this range.
  • After Nova, Ice Lance while the target is Frozen, then Frostbolt as it runs in. Without Frostbite, Chill does not extra-Freeze. Blink is trained at 20 (35% of base mana) if something is on top of you. Mana Shield rank 1 is also 20 (40 Mana).
  • If spells miss often, the maintained alternative spends three points on Precision and two on Improved Frostbolt. That is a full legal 11-point order, not a mid-tree dip.

Why this order

Eleven points stay in Frost. Arcane and Fire remain empty, so the preview matches a Frost-only 10–20 path.

Improved Frostbolt is a row-1 talent and can take the first five points. Permafrost and Improved Frost Nova sit on row 2 after those five. Ice Lance sits on row 3 after ten earlier Frost points.

Ice Lance deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets and has an 8 sec cooldown. In this range Freeze comes mainly from Frost Nova, because Frostbite is not in the sequence.

What the spent talents do

Improved Frostbolt

Improved Frostbolt reduces Frostbolt cast time by 0.1 seconds per rank, 0.5 seconds at rank 5. The current talent no longer lists Frost Blast. It has no prerequisite.

Permafrost

Permafrost rank 3 increases Chill duration by 33% and reduces the target’s speed by an additional 10%. That is the kiting half of this plan.

Improved Frost Nova

Improved Frost Nova reduces Frost Nova cooldown by 2 seconds per rank, 4 seconds at rank 2. Shorter Nova is the Freeze setup for Ice Lance.

Ice Lance

Ice Lance deals 28 to 32 Frost damage and deals 300% increased damage to Frozen targets. It is a 1-rank row-3 talent with no prerequisite. Its cost line is 45 Mana, 30 yd, instant, 8 sec cooldown.

Weaknesses and tradeoffs

  • Precision is skipped, so spell hit chance stays at the baseline. The renamed talent covers all spells, not only Frost and Fire.
  • Frostbite is skipped, so Chill effects do not have the extra chance to Freeze for 5 seconds.
  • Ice Shards is available on row 2 but skipped in favor of Chill and Frost Nova improvements. Shatter, Ice Block and Ice Barrier require more Frost points than level 20 allows.

Gear notes

  • Fang of Magmatus (#271095) prints 14–27 Damage, Speed 1.70, 12.26 dps and +4 Intellect, requires 13. Intellect is the recorded caster stat on that dagger (mana and crit chance on spells). The client cache also lists Infurnus for that boss slot; this site does not pick a winner. A wand, if you have one, is for filling while Frostbolt is not casting — this catalog does not tag a Forever wand as Mage-only.

Optional point

Precision 3 and Improved Frostbolt 2

Spells miss enough that hit chance matters more than the full 0.5-second Frostbolt reduction.

Precision rank 3 is +6% hit with all spells. Two Improved Frostbolt points complete the first five Frost points, followed by Permafrost 3, Improved Frost Nova 2 and Ice Lance.

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Point order

Spend one point at each level from 10 to 20. Names only here; recorded rank text is on the talents you spend.

  1. Level 10: Improved Frostbolt 1/5 (Frost)
  2. Level 11: Improved Frostbolt 2/5 (Frost)
  3. Level 12: Improved Frostbolt 3/5 (Frost)
  4. Level 13: Improved Frostbolt 4/5 (Frost)
  5. Level 14: Improved Frostbolt 5/5 (Frost)
  6. Level 15: Permafrost 1/3 (Frost)
  7. Level 16: Permafrost 2/3 (Frost)
  8. Level 17: Permafrost 3/3 (Frost)
  9. Level 18: Improved Frost Nova 1/2 (Frost)
  10. Level 19: Improved Frost Nova 2/2 (Frost)
  11. Level 20: Ice Lance 1/1 (Frost)

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Not verified in combat

  • Actual Frostbolt cast time after the 0.5 second reduction at this level
  • Resist and miss rates in Forever 10–20 content
  • Whether Ice Lance 28–32 damage feels worth the 11th point versus another rank of Ice Shards

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Notes

Sources and limits

Revalidated on 5 November 2026 against beta-20261105-c929bf89: Beta 70755 plus the 3–4 November hotfix cache. Some columns are provisional source placements. This theory order has not been playtested.

Talent names, ranks, prerequisites and tooltips in these WoW Forever builds use this site’s Forever data snapshot. Point text is checked against that snapshot. A cited guide is linked from the plan; its article is not copied here.

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  • Mage spellbook — recorded training levels and spell effects used in the play notes.
  • Calculator rules — Each level follows the calculator’s point budget, rank limits and prerequisites: one point at level 10, then one point each level, up to 51 at level 60.
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