Coupled with the Winter Tide change and the loss of Ring of Fire, Frost has taken a few steps back. In terms of damage and design. I don’t understand why on earth the devs have this need to take something they finally got right/mostly right and ruin it. Time and time again. Guess it’s time to main the MM Hunter oh wait they screwed that too. Love it.
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Now that fingers of frost no longer consumes winters chill you’re essentially getting an insane amount of ice lances on a target. Now what would have been two empowered ice lances it’s not four. Frost mages damage is very good right now.
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Freezing Winds change was long overdue. Getting flooded with FoF procs all the time, especially as Spellslinger with orb resets wasn’t very engaging. Now we have room to cast other spells without feeling like we’re wasting nearly as many procs. The AoE rotation was an absolute mess because of that talent and although the talent tree is still likely the worst of all classes and specs, they just need to add the Dragonflight s3/s4 4pc bonus to make things better.
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Yeah, frost spellslinger feels much better now. We just have to keep in mind to cast 1 more icelance into flurry everytime we cast an IL with FoF.
With the new patch and changes, I’ve more interest in playing the game.
I did mention Ring of Fire but I should have specified that is directed at PvP where damage is not very good.
The number isn’t really as relevant as when they’re available.
Because Fingers of Frost is consumed before Winter’s Chill, in order to not waste your Winter’s Chill charges you need to use your Fingers of Frost Procs up first, meaning they’re not available for on-demand movement.
Even the weird Frostbolt Spam build was more mobile when it mattered due to being able to just hold its Fingers of Frost available for when they were needed.
Then both were major downgrades from old Freezing Winds. Season 2 feels way more turrety than season 1.
Yeah… is there anything we can do to increase AOE damage in pvp? Ring of Fire was a big chunk of damage in both BGs and arena. Now it’s just gone and with no apparent replacement?
Best thing iv found is going into Cold Front for maps like mines, eots and gily. But damage outside of vines is just lack luster.