Extra-strength ice barrier for mages at the start of a bg

[advanta]

The strength of mage's Ice Barrier is solely a function of spellpower. Ice barrier lasts
a full minute..

At the very start of a bg, or when rezzing, you can switch to PVE gear and blow any
on-use trinkets which maximize intellect/spellpower, cast ice barrier, then switch back. This
will get you an ice barrier anywhere between 10-50% stronger than normal.

In close fights, that extra absorbency is quite decisive.

In theory you could build a whole gear set, gemmed and enchanted for int/sp which might
give your barrier a 100%+ resistance. That would make you pretty tough to beat.

[Alfalfa]

Oh wow, that's pretty clever. I don't play a frost mage but this should work on other classes I assume.

[dj_cRaZy00]

Yeah i did this with my owlkin in Cata, got a max. mastery set + on use mastery trinkets, go in lunar eclipse and starfall away anything^^ should work now too, with cooldown on this could be really nice

[empty_skillz]

doing this will put your two pvp trinkets on cooldown, its not an exploit if you ask me as its the game mechanic?

anyone can confirm?

[advanta]

doing this will put your two pvp trinkets on cooldown, its not an exploit if you ask me as its the game mechanic?

anyone can confirm?

The idea here is something like: use an honour or pve on-use trinket to boost your ice barrier then switch for a conquest off-use trinket. Off-use
conquest trinkets won't help your ice barrier but are good for pvp in general. That's exactly what I do anyway.

If your main pvp set contains an on-use trinket this won't work. I, personally don't use on-use trinkets for pvp since they got nerfed a patch or so back.

Additionally, we are not just talking about trinkets. If you have inferior quality items with superior int/sp to your main pvp set then these will all
add to the strength of your ice barrier. You need to switch them just before the bg starts or when rezzing to get your hyped-up ice barrier, then
back again to your main pvp set before you actually enter battle.

[Augury13]

Don't exactly see the exploit here. It doesn't say anywhere you can't change gear or anything of that nature before arena. Maybe should be moved toward guides. But in guides, nice to know

[Eryx]

It's a very nice tip, but not an exploit as this is working as intended