Big frost dk changes coming feb 7! (no kidding this time)

Classes Death Knight
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Frost

  • Unleashed Frenzy duration increased to 10 seconds (was 6 seconds).
  • Cleaving Strikes Obliterate now hits 2 additional targets (was 1).
  • Frost Fever damage increased by 15%.
  • Glacial Advance damage increased by 20%.
  • Frost Strike damage increased by 10%.
  • Frostwhelp’s Aid damage increased by 100%.
  • Frostscythe damage increased by 35%

ALL GOOD FREAKING CHANGES, LETS GO MAN!

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Sadly frost dks will still continue to complain due to no buff will be good enough.

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Nice! It took them what… 2 and a half years now to make Unleashed Frenzy longer? Pogged so hard that I actually am starting to write posts here again!

Also funny fact, I do want to play Frost Dk again despite a lot of comments about them… after playing enough Hearthstone too. :sweat_smile:

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You can’t fix an spec with just flat dmg % buffs, while they are very welcomed, frost DK still need changes on core rotation parts of the spec, they are not huge overhauls, just some things that need to interact with others and buffs that are too much of a buff.

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Lot of debbies in this chat, I for one am thankful for the attention! Thank you blizzard!

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You are always welcomed Locutus, yeah I started playing DK this expansion because of Hearthstone too XD

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Well it’s a start at least.

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Wake me up when they rip the band-aides off and actually fix the spec

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More bandaids but I’ll take it!

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I’m glad for the buffs, as anything helps at this point. Frenzy lasting longer is great, long overdue though. Cleaving strikes hitting a 3rd target will be nice. I don’t think that 35% is going to be enough to make frostscythe worth using though. The frostwhelp damage buff is a bit of headscratcher to me too. As far as I’m aware, no one uses that for the damage, just the mastery buff.

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Hopefully they’ll do some talent changes in 10.0.7 or 10.1 but more damage can’t hurt.

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What I think this change does is making Icecap + DW an actual build, so you get faster PoF and cleave with dragons, Frostschyte and do ST with shattering blades. Maybe it would still underperform, but is there.

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They are indeed bandaids but better than radio silence and damage buffs are always welcome. Only thing I’m not happy about is yet more reliance on DnD. From a pure ‘feels’ pov it’s clunky as hell to use in PvE and PvP. Having all that power tied up in something that can be walked out of doesn’t feel great. Brilliant start though. Wonder if Scythe will see some play now?

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still no mention of fixing Bonegrinder

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Do you have a source for this?

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There you go

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Mostly good changes. Frostscythe’s won’t fix it especially now that cleaving strikes now hits 3 targets

Ga buff is good. Ff buff is nice too

Soul Reaper still needs interaction with Obliteration though. This looks like an m+ buff.

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I mean it’s something at least, but the main issue is frost is BORING and not engaging. It need a rehaul like ret imo

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Ya this seems like a strange buff.

I feel like with all the Obliterate modifiers and cleaving strikes a 5 target cleave isn’t that great

I think the talent would be much better if it just caused your KM obliterates to proc Frostcythe.

I’d also love to see GA trigger shattering blade as well.

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Nice buffs, but would have been better if they nerfed breath and did something with the other talents to compensate. I would say a MotFW buff would have been nice too, but those who like dual wielding shouldn’t have to be forced to suffer using Breath either if they don’t want to.

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