I was fortunate enough to push into top three Frost DK spots in Solo Shuffle before the nerf. Since then, I haven’t queued once and for good reason. No one has been able to push any rating after the spec was killed via the nerfs on September 9th.
Don’t believe me? Check out Drustvar. In the last 72 hours one single DK has pushed above 2500. The rest of the spec’s player base is struggling to crack 2300.
The biggest question I have is, why Frost DK? It seems that every single time FDK is even remotely relevant, the spec gets nerfed into oblivion. Why this time? Because we could randomly hit an occasional 5m Frost Strike? Outside of this button, our damage is not nearly as substantial as what the majority of other DPS specs can do. Hell, Warrior’s filler buttons are hitting harder than our pre-nerf Frost Strikes.
Pre-nerf, FDK was in a decent spot for once. Post nerf, we are struggling. We don’t have an MS so our comp choices are limited and without a decent burst window, our spec is just not good or worth queueing with. Gutting our biggest burst ability and replacing it with a 15% buff to our Frost Fever dot damage is a total joke of an approach. I seriously question how Blizzards team makes these decisions. Frost DK is a middle of the pack DPS? GUT IT. Rets and Hunters? Totally fine to leave as is.
Blizzard, for the love of God, share some insight and transparency into your decision process when it comes to PVP balance. Do you use data to make these decisions and do you monitor results after the fact? Or, do your dev’s get smoked in an 1800 lobby and decide a class is OP based on a personal experience? I am genuinely curious.
Consider reversing FDK nerfs and addressing other over performing classes. This all just gets so old and predictable. Be better Blizz.
The devs favorite past time was nerfing chill streak so now that it’s gone they had to hit Frost Strike. Was funny seeing FDK hit harder than Ret has been yet.
I was 2450 in under 100 games prenerf and post nerf I’ve swung from that to 2k and back again over and over in almost 2k games playing every spec possible.
Fdk feels like it’s along for the ride most games and if everyone is trading good and there’s rets in lobby then it feels like 2-4 if your lucky.
Damage outside go feels weak compared to other dps. Frost dk is a teemu warrior with no ms or utility and if ur playing db no mobility either.
Between the Stam buff and frost nerfs both feel like a bad double tap to fdk kill potential .
Already brutal in lobbies full of mages or assa and war disarmed and garroted all game or trying to kill a mage as frost.
Frost is such a wasteland I get instant ques nonstop on it no one wants to play it.
No joke either I’ve shown on discord and to others on here from 2k to 2400 85% of my que are under 5 mins and more under 1 min. Legit no one playing spec so it feels like it bumps you to top of Que.
u really thing this dev team is getting smoked in any lobby? you really think this dev team pvps? My guess is transmog fashion days, fishing and casual questing is the MO of any participating Blizzard dev who actually logs in the game…
It’s possibly fdk nerfs on top of stam buffs were heavy handed, but FDK was AMAZING, and has always been a VERY strong (albeit cringe and frustrating) spec to play for the past 10 seasons.
Do you know how to play windwalker? I need some tips if I’m going to get good at this spec. How do you stay on targets? what’s your rotation during SEF?
insanely hard right now to stay on targets imo. like any ret lobbies i cant really connect due to hallowed ground, and casters are hard to stay on as well
if youre playing shadow pan, you want to tiger palm a lot to get flurry procs due to our 2/4set
almost every other ability should be tiger palm if fist isn’t up.
i think ideal burst is like:
have high stacks of crackle (if youre playing it)
have greater then 120 energy spent for an extra initial flurry strikes.
then its xuen>sweep=sef>big crackle if you have>then normal rotation of fisting off cd / rsking off cd / tiger palm every other global / blackout kick when nothign else is up.
just always hit a different ability for our mastery and hit combo and you should be somewhat fine during the burst window lol
the only monk in NA and he doesnt stream, or make guides. its criminal behavior
My spec would be pretty annoying if it were tuned as well as Frost but it isn’t so kind of moot. Also mine is better to play into than pressing chains and running around pillars between goes.
Thanks man! It felt like I’d pop my cds, press rsk, get kited, get micro cc’ed on my slicing, then be sad that i didn’t do anything. I’m still very much in the “stare at my bars hoping to find what to do next” phase
Also mine is better to play into than pressing chains and running around pillars between goes.