Blue Protocol: Star ResonanceFrost Mage Frostbeam Spec GuideBest build and how to play the class.

Frost Mage - Introduction

Frost Mage - Frostbeam is one of the classes available in Blue Protocol: Star Resonance. They fulfill the DPS role while wielding a Frost Staff as their weapon of choice. Find their best build and how to play them properly in our guide. Difficulty:

Frost Mage has also access to a second spec - Icicle - and if you're looking for a guide to that spec, check here.

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04.10.2025

Overview

Best Skills

Talents

Gear

Rotation & How to Play

Introduction

The Frostbeam spec is entirely focused on executing lengthy channels of its namesake (Frostbeam) to take advantage of its ability to deal ever-increasing damage the longer you cast. While channeling, you’ll also multi-cast Frost Mage's other channeled ability, Tidepool, simultaneously for huge AoE damage. Frostbeam is the lowest action count class in the game, making it easy to play and ideal for those without fast reaction times, but it’s not great on autoplay.

The Spec has some quirks, though. While cooldowns are unavailable and resources are limited, you’ll have to start and stop your Frost Beam casts to conserve energy, and while using Frost Beam, your movement is heavily slowed.

Ratings

AoE Damage [4/5]

ST Damage [3/5]

Utility [4/5]

Difficulty [2/5]

Pros & Cons

Pros

Exceptional AoE damage
Crowd control via drawing in enemies and consistently freezing them
Simple Playstyle

Cons

Squishy.
Low Mobility During Channelling.
Damage is heavily tied to burst.

Best Skills Loadout

Basic ATK

Raincall Surge

Skill

Frostbeam

Ultimate

Glacier Hymn

Slot 1 - Mandatory

Tidepool

Slot 2 - Mandatory

Maelstrom

Slot 3 - Mandatory

Permafrost

Slot 4 - Flex

Crystal Veil

Frost Shelter

Resources

Ice Cores - The two floating orbs that have been with us since the beginning allow us to shoot Ice Arrows when we use some of our skills

One of the core resources used to fuel key abilities such as Frozen Gale, Maelstrom, and Frostbeam. Our talent tree significantly improves Ice Energy generation and discounts key ability costs, such as Frostbeam which are all key to maximizing our damage output.

Frost Crystal - In Frostbeam, Frost Crystals operate as more of a buff than a resource. Each Frost Crystal we possess will:

Increase Frost Beam damage by 15% (20% with talents) for a total of 45% (60%) at the cost of increasing its Ice Energy consumption by 30% for a total of 90%.
Grant 5% Ice DMG at maximum crystals with the Frost Tide talent allocated.

Skills Explained

Fixed Skills

Raincall Surge
- Our basic attack isn’t ideal to use, but has a 10% Our basic attack, and ability we usually try to avoid casting unless at 0 Ice Energy with no other Ice Energy restoring options available.

Situations that require us to use basics should be avoided at all costs.

Frostbeam - Frost Beam is our main source of damage in and outside of our Burst and is what you'll be spending the majority of your time casting and spending your resources on. Using it causes your character to channel, dealing damage continuously that hits in an AoE by consuming 12 Frost Energy every 0.3 seconds. The damage frequency of this ability directly scales with Cast Speed. It will continue to cast until cancelled or you run out of energy.

Frost Beam Spec can accumulate so much Cast SPD that it’s possible to run into a Cast SPD cap on this ability, making building more or less effective. This cap is 100% Cast SPD, which is quite easy to hit with cooldowns.

Glacier Hymn
- Summons a Glacier atop enemies, which deals large damage, freezes targets, and summons an Ice Domain under our feet. When we stand in the domain, we gain 25% increased Ice DMG. When enemies enter it, they freeze temporarily. We use this as our burst rotation opener.

Mandatory Skills

Tidepool
- Channel to summon a water tornado that deals solid AoE damage. With talents, this ability can be used while Frostbeam is being cast, eliminating any downside in using it.
Tidepool
also scales on haste and is a major contributor to our high AoE damage.
Maelstrom
-
Maelstrom
summons a whirlpool that pulls in enemies and provides us with 2 Ice Energy per enemy hit per tick, which can be upgraded to recover 200% more with talents. Maelstrom is our main Ice Energy generator, especially in AoE. Usually used before long Frostbeam casts.
Permafrost
- GGrants up to +21% Haste, +1040 Flat Haste, and 6 Ice Energy per second for 10 seconds. Best used in combination with
Glacier Hymn
to maximize our damage by stacking their buffs. Between talents, stats, and the recovery
Permafrost
allows for dramatically longer Frost Beam casts.

Flex Skills (Choose 1)

Crystal Veil
- Grants 1 Frost Crystal on use and another every 3 seconds after. We don’t use this as a part of our rotation, but it can be used to build Frost Crystals before combat, ensuring we start at maximum damage.
Frost Shelter
- A powerful defensive alternative to
Crystal Veil
that makes us invincible for 5 seconds on use. The go-to option in challenging content where threatening boss mechanics are in play.

Skill Level Priority

Skill Priority
Frostbeam >>
Permafrost
>
Tidepool
>
Glacier Hymn
>
Maelstrom
>
Raincall Surge
=
Crystal Veil
=
Frost Shelter
Ensure all abilities you’re using are levelled to 30 - only advancement requires consideration.

Advance Frostbeam first, then

Permafrost

above all other abilities, as they’re the core of our burst window. Next, you advance

Tidepool

, then

Glacier Hymn

, and lastly, you may optionally advance

Maelstrom

, your basic attack,

Crystal Veil

, and

Frost Shelter

Best Talents

Important!
Embedded is our recommended core max-level Frostbeam talent tree containing all the specs' top talents.

Gameplay Altering Talents

Most of our talents just help us do what we’re already planning on doing better, but some have a drastic impact on our itemization and rotation. Below is an outline of all the gameplay-altering effects you need to be aware of in the Frostbeam spec and Base Frost Mage talents.

Base Frost Mage Tree

Secondary Amp - This provides us with a +3.5% increase to our highest flat stat out of Crit, Haste, Luck, Mastery, and Versatility. This is strongest on either Crit or Luck. Ensure one of these is the highest stat at all times.

This accounts for the highest stat after self buffs, party buffs, or imagines.

Intellect Cooling - Provides us with a 10% cooldown reduction, allowing us to execute our burst windows sooner.
Cold Stream - Increases Ice Energy by 25, and for every 1% Haste we have, we also gain 1% Ice Energy Regeneration Speed, boosting Haste’s value.

Frostbeam Tree

Tide Mastery - One of our most important talents, which allows us to cast Frostbeam and Tidepool at the same time.
Crystal Resonance - Causes our Frost Beam to have a 30% chance to cause our Ice Cores to fire Ice Arrows, which make up a substantial portion of our damage.

Ice Arrows can critically strike but cannot lucky hit.

Frost Tide - Causes Frostbeam to now generate Frost Crystals. This ensures we’re at max even if not running Crystal Veil or pre-stacking them.
Rapid Ice Arrow - Causes Frostbeam to fire 4 Ice Arrows during Permafrost (instead of 2), significantly increasing our damage. Unfortunately, this talent comes with the downside that our Lucky Hit Damage during permafrost is halved; this tradeoff is still worth it, though.
Endless Tide - Causes each ice arrow to extend Permafrost duration by 0.5 seconds up to 5 seconds. This is incredibly easy to max out, meaning this talent simply extends Permafrost duration from 10s to 15s.
Frost Domain - The reason our Ultimate Glacier Hymn grants us a 25% Ice Dmg increase. Another must-have talent for maximizing our burst damage.
Quick Chant - Provides +500 Flat Haste at all times and also accelerates ability usage by 15% during Permafrost. This much Flat Haste allows us to allocate our stat points toward other stats on gear while also being very strong before achieving high stat levels.

Ability Usage speed is not Cast Speed% and does not allow Frost Beam to bypass the Cast Speed% tick rate.

Icy Calm - Similar to the talent in our base tree that provides flat stats, this talent does the same. It provides 2% to our highest stat per enemy hit for 5 seconds, up to a maximum of 5 enemies. This is a free 10% to our highest stat in AoE scenarios

Recommended Frostbeam Build

Talents

If you want to create your own Talent tree, check our tool:

Talent Planner

Stat Priority

Important!
All gear & talent related info is based on extensive in-game testing, parsing, theory crafting and simulations. If you want to learn more about how damage works to understand our decisions, check out our Damage Formula Guide.

Stat Priority

Crit Rate

Haste (Pre Cap)

Haste (Post Cap)

Luck

Mastery

Versatility

Main Stats

Crit Rate - Despite not being a thumbs-up stat and the fact Frost Beam doesn’t have any specific Crit-based activation talents, it is still definitely one of our best stats due to how easy it is to fully cap out Frost Beam's hit rate with haste.

Stat Goal: We want Crit to be our highest stat to take advantage of our talents that boost our highest flat stat. With that said, Versatility is also an excellent stat for us. Try to stack them evenly while allowing Crit to be a bit higher when possible.

Haste - One of our thumbs up stats and present on all of our set gear and class weapons, making it unavoidable. An outstanding stat in theory and practice, right up until you hit the 100% Cast Speed hard cap for Tidepool and Frostbeam, after which it falls off considerably. Sadly, this cap is incredibly easy to hit with Permafrost, making Haste a stat while good isn’t one you want too much of.

At Cast SPD Cap Frostbeam’s tick rate maxes out at 0.167 - 0.166.
At Cast SPD Cap Tidepool’s tick rate maxes out at 0.25.

Mastery - Mastery, our other “Thumbs up” stat, grants us 0.4% Ice Damage and 1% increased Ice Energy generation per 1% of Mastery. Our talents already have a solid amount of Ice Damage, and the Ice Regen, while nice, isn’t build-defining. With that said, the Ray’s Swan Song talent, which doubles the value of Mastery while active, makes building it solid despite this.

You’ll get a colossal amount of Mastery for free on class gear and set bonuses, so spend your other gear slots on Versatility if you can to take advantage of its separate damage multiplier.

Versatility - This stat is always beneficial, providing an extra multiplicative boost on top of everything else. Stats suffer diminishing returns, so building a bit of Versatility can help a lot more for damage than overcommitting to one or two other stats.

Attempt to keep this stat balanced or slightly ahead of Mastery, as they have a similar effectiveness for the spec.
Keep in mind that you can not gem Versatility, so you’ll likely aim for it as your gear’s 3rd line.

Luck - Since Permafrost lowers our lucky hit multiplier by half, this stat is not as effective as it could be. While not completely useless, it isn’t a stat we want over others in most cases.

Bonus Stats

In gear slots you’re not using Set Gear in and which aren’t taken up by your class's signature Class weapon (if you have it), prioritize the following Purple Stats:

Helmet, Armour, Gloves, Boots

Intellect %

Weapons & Accessories

MATK% = Ranged DMG% = DMG% vs. Bosses

Set Gear

Frostbeam’s 2P and 4P set bonuses are both definitely worth equipping as soon as you’re able to complete Raids and are better than Purple Bonuses. Here is what they do:

2-piece SET

Increases Frostbeam DMG by 10% with a further 5% DMG increase to primary target.

4-Piece SET

Frostbeam DMG has a 10% chance to increase your Mastery by 10% for 8s.

Class weapon

Our Class weapon is also definitely worth using over purple stats. Instead of a purple stat it grants:

8% Ranged DMG.
Increased stats.

Best Modules

Here are the best modules for Frost Mage - Frostbeam - listed in priority order:

Elite Strike
- Always a good module for DPS, thanks to its almost always relevant Boss/Elite DMG%. We have more Elemental damage than Generic damage, so any sources are welcome.
Intellect Boost
- Grants excellent flat stats and also a large amount of Generic DMG%, making it ideal as it’s a stat we’re lacking.
Crit Focus
- Provides additional Crit DMG, since we only have some from Muku Chief, this is a good option. This synergizes well with our Ice Arrows’ Crit Rate buff and the crit rate that we build.
Special Attack
- A large amount of our damage comes from Frostbeam, making this module a good choice in theory. However, we gain a lot of Elemental DMG%, already diminishing this module's performance.

Best Battle Imagines

Important!
Some imagines will not be available to farm until all zones are unlocked - the most vital of these is
Muku Scout
.

Premium/F2P

Muku Scout [A5]

Muku Chief [A0]

Top Gold Imagines

Muku Chief
- Muku Chief provides passive CRIT DMG alongside a powerful active ability that grants a larger CRIT DMG boost as well as a flat Crit Rate. Furthermore, it has two charges, allowing superior uptime compared to other Imagines. Chief is our top and only recommended gold choice, as we don’t need Haste and already get a huge amount of Mastery elsewhere.

Top Purple Imagines

Muku Scout [A5]
- Muku Scout gives us a passive 15% MATK provided we are consistently hitting attacks. Upon activation, it doubles the stacks, giving a very potent and uncommon 30% MATK buff. Despite his description, Muku Scout also works for Magic Attack. Due to our high amount of multi-hits, refreshing or starting up this passive is simple. Due to caps and stat saturation, Scout outperforms many Gold options outside of Chief until high Advancements.
Inferno Goblin Mage [A5]
- Inferno Goblin Mage provides passive INT +10% and has an active skill of an additional 20% INT. With our conversion rate of 10 INT to 1 MATK, and the talent node that provides additional Ice Energy relative to our INT, this is a strong option for increasing our damage.
Lizardman Mage [A5]
- Lizardman Mage is the generic Ice DMG% Imagine, granting 7.5% passive Ice DMG% and a further 16% on use. While solid does not compete with imagines higher on this, as we already have so much Ice DMG%.

Best Consumables

Culinary

Seabreeze Special - Grants Elite/Boss DMG% as well as a strong amount of Magic ATK, making it the superior choice.
Bearcut Patty / Hearty Stewmix - More More Magic ATK than Seabreeze Special, but without the Elite/Boss DMG% is less powerful, good backup food.

Alchemy

Ice Serum - The best and only choice for our Alchemy consumable when aiming for maximum damage.

Best Gems

Ruby - Intellect (Crit) - This will be our best gem option, since there isn’t an opportunity to gem Versatility.

How To Play

Burst Rotation

The goal of our burst rotation is to stack as many cooldowns and damage multipliers together as we can, then cast Frostbeam and

Tidepool

together until they expire, making for one of the simplest rotations in the game. Execute the rotation below for optimal damage:

Note
Not all your burst rotations will have
Glacier Hymn
available; do not waste
Permafrost
and
Tidepool
s cooldown waiting for it.

Tip
Before combat, you may optionally use
Crystal Veil
to pre-stack Frost Crystals if you have it equipped to lower ramp-up time slightly.

Use Imagines if available.
Use
Glacier Hymn
if available.
Use
Permafrost
.
Channel Frostbeam.
Cast
Tidepool
as soon as Frostbeam begins.

Continue channeling until completely out of energy, then transition to the Downtime rotation.

Downtime Rotation

Downtime is all about dealing as much damage as possible while we wait for cooldowns to return. The best way to go about this is still to use Frostbeam while generating Frost Energy with

Maelstrom

. However, without cooldowns active, we won't have enough Frost Energy regen to channel it for long periods. To get around this, we constantly start and stop the cast to improve energy economy. Here is the priority:

Tip
We can cancel out of Frostbeam by pressing the button again or by dodging out of it. Use whichever is most comfortable and applicable to the situation.

Maelstrom
when available
Frostbeam until 2 sets of Ice Arrows fire, then cancel and repeat.

Auto Viability

Can Frostbeam be played on auto?
Auto-play is not recommended for Frostbeam as the AI uses many cooldowns at the wrong time, ruining overall damage potential. Also, Frostbeam is not an action-heavy class, meaning you don’t have to worry about missing ability timings due to ping or input lag. Finally, the AI is not able to cancel Frostbeam during the downtime rotation to conserve Frost Energy, ruining our resource economy, and it also does not align cooldowns correctly.