Agree with most of the commentary here. This actually hurt more than I thought it would, it completely changes rotation on pull of bosses or big packs in M+ and dampens our single-target damage reasonably significantly.
It also makes world content a bit harder, especially nightmare hunts where you need to kill something quickly.
As frost, I would certainly spike above my peers (ie BM hunter or rogues) temporarily and it would even out reasonably quickly (~15 seconds max), now I don’t even get the spike so I fall behind for as long as 30 seconds before I get a spike.
Blizzard, please revert this. This is not a fun change, it’s not a good change and it doesn’t even any playing fields that were previously uneven.
If your ‘people couldn’t find it in the spell book’ excuse is legitimate at the slightest, then separate GS into its own spell with a 20-30 sec cooldown (maybe frostbolt can reduce this by 1sec per cast or something if you want some interaction) so that we can manage when we use it instead of having to charge it up.
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Wait….They bricked icicle regen out of combat cause people with 2 brain cells were too oblivious to comprehend that Glacial Spike and Frostbolt are interchangeable/the same thing? …Is this serious?
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I’m thinking it’s just an excuse to trash Mages more.
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Revert the GS changes pls
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Blizzard I don’t understand why you buffed specs that didn’t need help and left other specs/ hero specs in the gutter. Frosts change to glacial spike feels like crap (actually that’s an understatement). FF frost is still trash and ignored. And let’s not bring up the other mage specs dead at the bottom that didn’t even get a little aura buff. This whole patch is full of bugs, weird class changes, and just completely out of touch. Reverse the glacial spike change! Your player base LIKED that gameplay, why would you take that away if it was liked???
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I didn’t even think about how this would affect world content… Yeah, that would be a horrible nerf to it.
Thank you for being so wildly out of touch with your own game that you actually destroye classes, Blizzard.
The funny thing is, all they had to do was put in the tooltip that ‘Glacial Spike replaces Frostbolt when at five icicles.’
Literally no different than the note they have on Ice Nova replacing Cone of Cold.
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Sad to see what they did to Frost Mages, I feel substantially weaker and makes me wonder why I struggled so hard to level up my iLVL (even to so inconsequential a level as 266, which I currently am at), to feel so very weak at the end of all this effort.
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As a Frost Mage main since forever, please consider reverting the Glacial Spike change Blizzard. The spec flowed well before this patch, but now feels clunky due to not having Glacial Spike available at the start of combat.
The change would make sense to me if icicles took longer to recharge out of combat. But removing icicle regeneration out of combat completely is a baffling change. It’s not even about the 0.5% damage loss, this Glacial Spike change is just not fun.
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Please revert the change to GS.
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Echoing everyone here to please revert the changes to GS. Play was much more smooth before hand, now it feels very clunky and not fun at all.
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So Glacial Spike only useful in battles that last some length of time. Totally useless in world content.
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Revert this dogsht change
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I’m heartbroken over this change to the Glacial Spike. I was really unhappy at first to the updates to Frost Mage in this expansion, but it ended up being even more fun then before. This change really removes that exciting big boom feel. Please revert.
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Lmao trying to do void assaults and you basically rely on using your ray of frost to take down any sort of mob quickly. If you’re out of charges you’re SOL. Revertttt
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i have noticed since this change, that getting glacial spike is now very random. my dps has been out right murdered.
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yeah it takes forever now to get a glacial spike. the whole frostbolt or frostfire bolt not adding an ice cicle is absolutely destroying glacial spike procs.
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I just found out they fixed UDK by making Festering Scythe grant a buff to the player instead of a debuff on their targets, meanwhile we have to deal with Freezing. Man, just get rid of this debuff thing for us as well.
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I dont have much in this crap life. The one thing i’ve had the last 20 years is WoW. Blizzard just took that from me by changing the frost mage. I hate Blizzard. No one asked you to make changes. You dont know anything about playing a mage. Stop making changes. You clearly dont know what you’re doing. I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU. I HATE YOU.
Change the frost mage back to TWW talents / build. Frost mage was fast, fun, and did enough dps without casting GS or RoF. Removing GS and buffing frostbolt wouild be a good change. Completing removing RoF is another great idea. But you’re too busy itching your buttholes then sniffing your fingers while giggling to yourselves. EF YOU! Go jerk off a hamster and leave us the EF alone! You suck and probably smell like an elephants butt. GO TO HELL.
-Jdeez-AeriePeak
P.S. Ban me for life! Please!
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I don’t think screaming I hate you to Blizzard is going to help.
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Dear Blizzard,
If you refuse to revert GS back to what it was, at least make it where BF procs 100% of the time when we eventually cast GS.