When fishing for runes while remorseless winter is up would be nice if frost strike cleaved but maybe i am in the minority here Lol. Feels so bad using FS in AoE but you need them juicy runes to make RW pump.
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Glacial advance
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Based on what I got, Glacial Advance and Frostscythe aren’t good right now. Conflicting costs and globals, and the damage isn’t worthy.
If you ask me, both should be talents that improve Frost Strike.
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Glacial Advance could be reworked into a “10yrd mini-charge”, instead of this weird line of ice. Basically, brings the DK to melee range and does the same as GA already does to any enemies it comes in contact with, plus the additional main/single target damage to get it on par with FS.
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FS turns into Frostscythe. Main target damage remains relatively the same, on top of 50% for cleave, with the additional that cleave crits are multiplied by 4, instead of 2.
These two could exclude each other or add effects on top of each other. Placed below FS and between Rime and Killing Machine, with a path to Pillar of Frost (meaning you would be able to avoid Runic Command and Improved Frost Strike).
Ga is fine? Frost Scythe is the real problem
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Could be better, though.
GA needs a small buff would be nice to have some damage outside of pillar. I’ve been going down the rabbit hole thinking of ideas to make frost fun, Frostscythe would be welcomed if they fixed it. They haven’t feelsbadman.
I don’t use GA on tyr weeks flame me now!
Glacial Advance needs new visuals badly because it’s just not very satisfying to use.
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GA needs (^) an updated visual, to get the same benefits of FS (icecap, rune refunds etc…), and maybe improve its width or give it a narrow cone shape. Other than that it’s fine.
The last thing we need is more single target abilities cleaving.
This though, they would have to cap icecap to first target hit, but honestly it feels terrible to play with GA and in most cases isnt truly a dps increase even multi target if the fight lasts long enough, or the next pull is fast enough. Decreasing pillar CD >= GA on most dungeons. Maybe exception BRH or Everbloom.
I rarely use it on fort weeks either. It’s more burst but without it scaling pillar CD like FS isn’t really a buff to damage.
Yeah… 
Make GA shoot spikes straight up through each target with FF.