Jak3Bartez wrote: »

With the change to Glacial presence's 200% chance to proc chilled, which destro is best to use is it still ice or would fire/lighting staff with charged frost glyph be better for the 12% status effect damage or 12% direct damage. I'll be using Frostbite and master's staff so without ice staff i'll lose the minor brittle 2% increase, but gain burning/concussed effects.

Frostbite isn't worth using if you're not using an ice staff. hell, its even hard to recommend with an ice staff outside of aoe trash packs in trials.
in pve its probably worth noting that in most cases you'll lose a lot of single target damage swapping to shock clench or flame reach since frost reach has an inherent almost double initial hit damage increase over those other 2 things, though i have seen a shock clench+2h build do more dps than double ice staff or ice/2h.

in pvp, ice staff is probably safer still since you'd gain that extra defensive benefit and solid dps.

Jak3Bartez wrote: »

ESO_Nightingale wrote: »

Jak3Bartez wrote: »

With the change to Glacial presence's 200% chance to proc chilled, which destro is best to use is it still ice or would fire/lighting staff with charged frost glyph be better for the 12% status effect damage or 12% direct damage. I'll be using Frostbite and master's staff so without ice staff i'll lose the minor brittle 2% increase, but gain burning/concussed effects.

Frostbite isn't worth using if you're not using an ice staff. hell, its even hard to recommend with an ice staff outside of aoe trash packs in trials.
in pve its probably worth noting that in most cases you'll lose a lot of single target damage swapping to shock clench or flame reach since frost reach has an inherent almost double initial hit damage increase over those other 2 things, though i have seen a shock clench+2h build do more dps than double ice staff or ice/2h.

in pvp, ice staff is probably safer still since you'd gain that extra defensive benefit and solid dps.

Ok thanks, are there any sets you'd recommend for pvp?, I want to have a fun ice build i was going to use master's front bar vma back, but i dont know which sets would be good. I can only think of Acuity, Frostbite and Ice furnace as offensive sets.

Sorry, im not sure what sets are good right now. I mainly pve.

The frost mage is no longer as effective as it used to be.

Lightning or dual will give you much more DPS regardless of a build based on Master Ice.
Oakfather will give you much more DPS than Frostbite.

If you wanna play with less than 30k health, for piercing cold passive, or you want to increase your chilled rate, just use a scribe spammable with frost dmg.

I've been trying Frostbite, Systres and Master's/Vma, It's ok in BGs I'll probably try dropping Vma for Sea serpent and maybe drop Frostbite when I get around to it.

The PVP "Meta" Magden is Acuity FB, Rallying Cry/Wretched BB, and Balorgh. It's not strictly a Frostden, but it's the closest thing to it that's still viable and fun to play. Just pop Northern Storm when Acuity isn't on cool down and hit people with the Vamp Spammable and Shalks. Everything dies.