What do you all think? I think having Frost Scythe like this could be really fun, though imo the ability should have already been like this in the first place. It is a shame that ability isn’t affected by certain talents though. Now if we can only get some actual class changes…
At least the tier set is better then the previous iteration.
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Undermine(d) 2-Set Bonus has been updated – Your spells and abilities have a chance to activate a Winning Streak! increasing the damage of your Frost Strike and Glacial Advance by 4% stacking up to 8 times. Frost Strike and Glacial Advance have a 8% chance to remove Winning Streak!.
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Undermine(d) 4-Set Bonus has been updated – Winning Streak! causes Frost Strike and Glacial Advance to have a 8% chance to cast Frostscythe per stack at 50% effectiveness. Losing Winning Streak! sends you into a Murderous Frenzy, casting Frostscythe at 125% effectiveness and gaining 12% Haste for 6 seconds. Additionally, Frostscythe deals 50% more damage to the first target struck.
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It looks like complete and utter garbage and not actually fun to play with.
Its just one other thing that an addon has to track so you can make proper use of it which is losing Winning Streak! which looks like the best part of the entire thing and you only have an 8% chance to remove it with Frost Strike and Glacial Advance.
Frostscythe really hasnt changed in use, it just gets an overall damage buff and the Rime treatment for Howling Blast in doing more damage to the first target hit (which I would guess is your primary target).
Frost needs less conditionals, not more.
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To be fair, besides the UH tier set, pretty much every melee tier set has the rng with conditionals ect.
And to be fair, I havent seen a single thread praising the tier sets. They are pretty universally hated.
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Thats a significant improvement, but Frost in general needs a flat 10% ST buff in general. Problem is theres no way just to buff ST without affecting AoE
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100%. I am hoping that changes are still coming, but at least this is a start.
It might be good but it sounds pretty stupid. I love frost scythe but I wish they made the actual talent usable instead of baking it into frost strike as rng. It feels like they’re purposely leaving the talent in a garbage state just so they can slap it into a set bonus.
Also, isn’t it a common complaint that frost already has too much cleave in pve?
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The 4 set they originally posted yesterday was cooler. Too bad it was a mistake.
Frostscythe would be way more usable in its current form if it cost ~40-60 RP instead of 2 runes. It should be competing against frost strike and glacial advance, not Obliterate.
The rp spent would flow back to make runes and the wierd friction of trying to use Frostscythe is gone.
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Agreed. I made a suggestion a while back to have frost scythe basically replace shattered frost.
“ When Frost Strike consumes 5 Razorice stacks, it unleashes a frost scythe, dealing X amount of damage to X targets”
You get the idea. Could deal a bit of extra damage to the main target and less to others to prevent excessive cleave damage. However they want to balance it is fine, it would be a very cool addition to the rotation.
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Losing winning streak gives you pillar of frost for 6 seconds
That would have been sooooo much better. God I wish devs would give us that.
Edit, the tier is looking to be a notable dps increase as it current stands. But not sure if it is bugged or not the 4p bonus.
a second froststrike tier set ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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The free Scythe Procs are pretty dope though.
Compare it to other tier sets. It is not like any of them are particularly interesting. At least this one is a decent dps increase.
well, there is actually, but you have to directly target single target stuff, and also nerf cleave at the same time. for example, if you buff exterminate’s first scythe and not its second, that’d help its single target a bit. but they want to buff obliterate and frost strike directly, theyd need to also nerf cleaving strikes and shattered frost at the same time. cleaving strikes could only copy 90% of obliterate’s damage for example. and you could also nerf the scaling of shattered frost. tbh i don’t really like shattered frost anyway, i’d rather that shattered frost work from glacial advance, our aoe runic power ability. people are probably only against that idea because glacial advance looks like crap and was also nerfed into the floor. if it looked as cool as it did in legion beta, i think people would be more onboard with it shattering razorice.
Damn that would have been so good!