hb has been nerf’d from the beginning and if we can get them to take out the damage of AA and FF and put it back into our abilities that would help some
im sure hungering cold could be worked into a 30 or 45 sec cd 10ish sec dur
if this was baseline for all specs i don’t think this would conflict with unholy at all, in fact making it cost RP instead of a rune may make it a little easier, especially given how it also can be used for resource regen. the current unholy talent slot could be an option to raise the % that SR works to 45%. this would be similar to MoP.
as long as it does shadowfrost damage, nobody wants to wait an entire expansion for them to change it to the correct damage type so frost can benefit from it like last time
Howling Blast damage was reduced because of Masterfrost. That damage was put into Rime.
would be nice if they made frost scythe do like 15% more damage at base. pretty sure it has the same tooltip as howling blast before anything to do with killing machine.
Frostscythe doesnt need KM though. It can just passively crit and gain the boost.
When people talk about it through its always in the context that it needs to compete against Obliterate with KM procs. Its not entirely accurate though it plays no role in single target which is where avalanche comes in.
i haven’t seen it used much at all. is it even viable rn in mythic plus compared to avalanche?
Yes. It can be used. Not so much with BoS. But it can be used. There have been people talking about using it in M+.
have they used it to much success?
Depends on what you meant by success. They timed keys.
The big issue is it went from fully uncapped, to capped without compensation and now its reduced beyondsl 5 targets.
so is it better than avalanche in aoe?
To me it is. But its reliant on crit.
Generally no. I know some people play it and that it’s viable. It is considered a niche pick though and sims put it below avalanche.
That’s unfortunate considering avalanche hits in ST. It would be nice if it was buffed.
Did they ever give a design reason for removing soul reaper from frost?
I can’t remember if they ever did.
no nor did they give one for taking away Merciless Combat
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having a button feel good to press would be a thing is if they took the damage from AA and FF and put it back into our abilities
also Rime went from 300% to 150% in 9.0.1 and that doesnt really feel good to press as well
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I wish frost strike did something seperate to other runic spenders that helps with resource generation. Feels bad to press as is but i don’t think it should directly deal more damage. As that’s obliterate’s job. But I’d also rather have another baseline skill to press in the main rotation because it definitely feels like we’re missing one.
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member when FS had km on it that was nice
also icy touch was neat
dark sim was cool when it worked properly like on bosses
frost mage gets to many neat frost abilities like ebonbolt
2.5 sec cast
launch a bolt of ice at a mob dealing 200% frost damage and granting brain freeze 45 sec cd
apart from the brain freeze it sounds neat. like what if it has a 40% or more chance to grant KM and Rime. plus aother abilities have a chance to make it free and instant
i wouldnt mind having a full ranged kit that only works at range. a ranged ability that KM can proc on. than we get into melee an do what we normally do
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Ebonbolt kinda sucks. And i only joined at the very end of BFA so i don’t remember all of those removed skills.