The tier set has zero use in single-target, or anything less than an AoE fight.
If it’s one single target, your FB volley is 1 frostbolt. If it’s 2, it’s 2 frostbolts etc.
No interactions. Nothing special. Little frostbolts. The less enemies there are, the less the tier actually outputs on a complete downward scale.
This spec is literally, by design, only “good” for AoE fights, and even so, only during IV.
What even is that lmfao. Dude 1 single frostbolt for a single boss fight as a 4-pc tier set mechanic? Wtf?
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It’s the worst of the 3 for sure. Especially compared to Fire’s which is busted as all hell.
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It’s not even a real frostbolt so it doesn’t interact with anything, it’s a joke.
At least if it launched an actual frostbolt with actual interactions like brain freeze, fof etc etc… It would have been better.
Yeah the tier set is really sad tbh. It felt like they just didn’t know what to do and threw that in
The primary target is roughly 5 times stronger then a normal FB… But that being said its awful. 0 interactions with anything with the spec. Its a very minor passive increase that offers nothing really of interest.
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How did they say, “Yeah, this sounds fine” ? Did they offer the tier design to an intern?
If they at least made all of the frostbolts hit the single target/as many as they can (therefore, a set number always casts), interact, (such as: contributing to Deaths Chill making it a great talent), etc.
Don’t think there is anyone else left working at Blizzard but the interns, lol.
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I actually think the volley is cool. My only complain is the 4 piece - it feels underwhelming. I think a volley every 5 seconds while Icy Veins is active would be more impactful.
The other elephant in the room is Frost’s mastery does not interact with the set bonus. They really need to amend Frost mastery to lump in all frost damage getting a bonus much like Arcane’s.
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I agree.
The frost t-set is rly boring and meh!
I hope they change/buff it by a lot.
What i would have liked: Reduce IV cd by X seconds, increase frostdmg by %x , FB/lances also fire a ROF e.g. e.g.
Something that makes it rly worth to have.
Make the bolts contribute to conditions, like Deaths Chill making it actually great to play around with 4-set, and come out with a set number of bolts that get volleyed, so it isn’t next to actually worthless in single-target fights.
I mean cmon man
The primary bolt deals significantly more damage than the AoE bolts. It’s not worthless single target - not by a long shot.
That said, having it interact with Death’s Chill would be mechanically interesting.
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