I recently read someone make a suggestion on the tier set bonus thread, and i thought it was good enough to make an thread dedicated to it.
You know the current tier set? The one that has a chance to proc brain freeze when you cast glacial spike.
I like it, but there is a problem.
The problem is that it doesn’t leave much room to try something else, i don’t dislike spike, but sometimes i just wanna spam ice lance.
So here’s the suggestion.
The proc should be based on icicles, not glacial spike.
You could rune it to have an 8% chance per icicle to proc brain freeze, maybe a little less like 5% or 6%, but with glacial spike always 40%. That’s something you’re gonna have to figure out. The reason is quite simple, with glacial spike each icicle is more valuable, on the other hand with ice lance spam build, you cast quite a few more icicles, at 8% value, it may lead to a disproportionate amount of brain freezes.
This way you would have the same 40% proc rate with spike, but this also allows you to play with non glacial spike builds.
But who knows, maybe with frostfire, this won’t even be needed, since there already is a brain freeze proc mechanic in the tree. And if it procs enough, getting even more procs might be undesirable, since it would push out frostbolt and frostfire bolt, aside the insta cast from the rotation, which may, or may not feel good. We would have to see.
Anyway, i thought the idea was good enough to make a thread about it.
I also liked the 2nd tier set, which basically did a similar thing in a slightly different way. Either set i would enjoy as a talent next expansion.