I believe Frost Death Knight has some of the simplest, but most attractive animations of all classes. There’s only one that I hope we can get a polished for DF and that is Remorseless Winter. It’s very iconic to the class in general and I love the synergy it has with conduits, legendary, talents in Shadowlands. The thing is the animation has been the same since it’s introduction in MoP. Id like it to have a deeper particle density maybe add some more wind effects to it as well inspired by Rushing Jade Winds. Anyone else feel the same or have other animations they think could use a refresh?
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Theres a fight in nighthold with aluriel, where she put a debuff on you… That animation is way more awesome than the current RW… Theres also a moment in zereth mortis if i remember corretly that we fight against darion mograine and he uses remorseless winter… And again lol we are the death lord, but he is the one with a big di i mean remorseless winter
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I didn’t even think about the debuff from Aluriel that’s a good mention. That deep color is what I’m imagining, with more wind. Make it feel more like the Bolvar vs Sylvanas fight as far as deep particles and effects go
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DK animations are fairly low impact it is true. The Drust from BFA have excellent shadow magic effects yet here I am shooting 2004 shadow particles.
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Right haha it’s so weird that DK is behind the times with impactful/noticeable animations because it’s a pretty popular class in my experiences
I liked that obliterate animation in legion where you would stomp forward and swing diagonally down! I wish it would use that one for dual wield and current one for 2h.
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Any ability you spam like our rune spending strikes should combo into alternate animations like Shaman storm strike does.
Remorseless winter was actually introduced in legion (pre patch) so not too long ago. Frost got some much needed changes as Master Frost was the go to in PVE which almost completely ignored obliterate. It’s also when they changed all the runes to one type.
None of that matters but just reminiscing.
I do miss pressing HB as a rune spammable aoe. Frostcythe just doesn’t feel the same.
I’d love to see cosmetic changes to remorseless winter via glyphs. Could even add one that reduces the effect if you struggle to see under your character.
This is incorrect patch 5.0 added remorseless, which was MoP. I think a glyph would be nice, but not sure what they’d do there. I think a remodel of the ability entirely is needed.
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Visual and increase to radius as we ramp up gathering storm would be neat on RW. I’d also love a build that let me keep it up full time (obviously less damage).
GA could look much better😗. I think it had a different animation at some point?
I miss my horn of winter. I really used to like just pressing that button and hearing the sound. I battle shout on my vulpera warrior all the time. It’s not just visual queues, but audio too. It made me feel frostier (word?).
Pillar feels like it should be more iconic visually, almost like wings. It’s a big CD and a huge part of oblit’s gimmick. Be neat if it gave us an icy blue appearance similar to the void elf racial proc but not purple.
Winters grasp weapon enchant is really everything I want from my weapon mogs for frost and it’s not very easy to get if you don’t play much around the holidays. I have it, but more of that would be great. The SL collectors wep enchant looks good in some weapons for frost too.
Ice theme for ghoul would be cool too.
I feel like path of frost could have pve applications. Maybe like shams earthquake, mobs have a chance to be stunned if they cross the path. Deal light frost damage. Maybe a small slow too?
More wind sounds in the kit. HB and Avalanche give me my frost sounds. I want to sound and feel like a nor’easter.
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Couldn’t have said this any better.
It would be insane if our bodies did some thing like Ice Form for mages when we press pillar
I like the idea of having RW grow as you increase its damage. It hink that would be really fun and feels more immersive in a way. GA in general needs a redesign. I don’t understand why it isn’t a cone instead of a line. I’d like to see a big ice chunk blast in front of the dk personally.
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Need to get the Frozen team to work on my DK kit lol. I wanna be lich Elsa >:|. Sorry, lich fox Elsa*.
We, unfortunately, have to have different visuals than frost mages to some degree. So novas, top down blizzard effects, frozen orb, ice lances, etc are visually off the table I think (pure opinion though, maybe they don’t care).
Counterpoint: I was surprised that BoS was so close visually to cone of cold when it was added, honestly.
Audio would go a long way to making the spec feel more immersive to me.
All this being said, frost dk is one of the most thematic specs to play in my opinion. It’s got a great vibe, lots of lore, and is usually doing a bit more than other classes visually. Even if the particle density is poop on some of our spells.
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Oh I completely forgot the no damage utility talent in mop that was the replacement for hungering cold.
I don’t know if I ever picked it cuz gorfiends was just broken op.
This was actually how it worked on Beta but was scrapped for some reason.
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