Frost DK needs to be more frosty

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Id love if frost had more slows, freezes, and other miscellaneous slows like heartstop aura. Frost fever is just a boring dot, but what about having it build up an heavy slow, and maybe giving it conditions for a root/stun or slowing casting speed? Frost strike? Give it a slow. Have obliterate have a shatter effect. Make pillar of frost actually be a massive pillar where everything in a large radius is slowed or rooted. Remorseless winter could slow targets and make you immune to slows and roots, so it really is remorseless. Heartstop aura for frost only baseline would be pretty sick. Imagine being able to force an iceblock on an enemy you dont want to deal with.

Id like to think that the class fantasy of frost dk is that you dont let the enemy run away, so they basically have to stay with you and fight. It would be cool to literally slow down someone elses gameplay with stuff like slowing down casting/attack speeds and movement. Unrelenting and straightfoward frost vs bursty dot based unholy dk. Without changing a whole lot about how the spec is now, theres plenty of ways that frost could actually be pretty frosty.

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Use Chains of Ice and Remorseless Winter. Frostwyrm’s Fury also causes a slow. Do too much more and we would be really crossing over to Frost Mage territory.

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Frost Fever used to slow enemy attack speed and increase your attack speed through the icy talons talent combo. Chilblains was also a thing though outside of pvp it wasn’t used. Hungering Cold was an instant aoe stun, the downside was people could be broken out by pretty much anything aside from disease damage.

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If only Frost had an ‘ice or frost’ themed ability that really slowed down their target? Almost like they had heavy frosty chains around their whole body??
Hummmm…drawing a blank, can’t think of anything…Oh well…maybe in SL they will get such a cool and useful ability.

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