Its gonna be trash for at least the end of this phase. But they are doing 1 round of tuning in preparation for next phase. So we’ll see what happens.
I am curious on how blizzard defines frost mage and how Players do. I know on my secondary mage I was messing around with some shatter frostfire builds in gnomer and even though I was 21 points in frost and only 10 points in fire (for ignite) It would count me as fire on WCL. This build I believe was better then deep frost that WCL shows as frost.
I am not 100% sure how WCL determines what class you are but it seemed ignite was a driving factor and not just % damage of frost vs fire damage.
If Blizzard is expecting frost mages to run shatter and frostfire which benefits from duel specing into ignite, then I don’t think its technically the worse class. But as the playerbase goes off WCL Which counts ignite(assumption) as making you purely fire then it shows frost mage as really underperfoming in PVE.
That is leaving PVP out of the subject entirely since we all know frost is doggy in pvp.