Ebonbolt should be baseline as a quality of life change. Frozen touch is more popular on that tier despite granting nearly the exact same dps increase as ebonbolt. Frost needs some way to guarantee a brain freeze and shouldn’t have to spec into it.
Brain freeze is too important to the way frost operates if one specs glacial spike. It is a relevant proc if one builds around ice lance, and with the change to winter’s chill it is more relevant to ice lance builds than ever before.
The talent replacing ebonbolt does not need to be perfectly balanced against frozen touch. It just needs to be interesting.
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That wouldn’t be a bad choice because frost mages spend too long fishing for procs.
If Edonbolt is going to stay as a talent, it should be buffed because it makes no sense for it to have a cast time, be an extra spell the mage has to incorporate into their rotation, and cost a GCD & yet still offer the same DPS as Frozen Touch.
If it will stay as a talent its cooldown should be pulled down. If it’s going to be made baseline, a good replacement talent would be one that passively reduces its cooldown whenever (insert condition here).
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I think the spell is how it is so it competes with frozen touch.
Mage passive talents are all so much stronger than our active talents. Flame on is mandatory as fire. Flame patch is one of the most heart breaking talents in wow, that passive used to be part of what flamestrike was and now it isn’t. Frozen touch and bone chilling don’t ask of you to change up how you play in pve, they just ask you to cast frostbolt. I won’t even bring up glacial insulation or blazing soul.
On the one hand it means that we do get our pick between ebonbolt and frozen touch as we like. On the other hand, that talent row feels kinda, I dunno, tame? I feel like I’m getting stronger but it isn’t stronger like how I feel on some of my other classes. I feel like it is worth mentioning that mage has mando talents like flame on, or bone chilling as glacial spike or lonely winter as orb.
Also, fire and frost’s (and probably arcane once more testing has been done) pvp builds are very strict. I know a lot of classes have basically the one pvp build but all 3 mage specs have talents which feel like they are the pvp talent rather than just the strongest talent to pvp with, you know? Like their reason for existence is to be for pvp.
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Agreed, Ebonbolt just feels right as a baseline spell for Frost and it’s cool.