Rank 1 frostbolt is only 1 second. Faster than any wand.
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Rank 1 frostbolt is only 1 second. Faster than any wand.
The global cooldown is 1.5 seconds. I donât think frostbolt is exempt from that?
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Itâs not. You can get the first one off in 1.0, the rest have to wait for the GCD.
Its not. Its also only 1 second if youâre frost specced, and back then the vast majority of mages were fire and werent specced into imp frostbolt - only taking points in elemental precision for the +hit to fire spells.
Equip a frost melee weapon, itâs not hard to contribute.
What I see here is âmu parse is not 1337 enoughâ
And whimpers because players wiped on a boss.
zomg a boss some comps canât just motorboat right over!?!?, itâs the end of the world!
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Dude, no one is bragging about a Visc parse. Itâs not about DPS. Ever. Itâs about whether or not its different from Vanilla. It needs to match the original if it can.
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wut. viscidus freeze phase has nothing to do with parsing or dps. youâre trying to get to the freeze phase as fast as possible. how many times you hit the boss with a frost ability matters, not how much damage it did.
have you uh⊠ever actually done this boss?
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Correct, and thatâs kinda the point itâs not a conventional fight at all and counter to the typical meta of just explode the boss.
Where as here itâs 100% about doing the mechanics and really nothing more, yet players QQ over doing the mechanics as seen in this thread
you mean doing a lvl 35 quest is too hard for you? Fine go farm a low level instance for days to get the alternativeâŠ
I mean, if you wanna waste a bag slot on that trash wand, be my guest. I vendored that nonsense long ago.
⊠literally no one brought up parsing but you. Using frost wands to achieve the freeze phase was part of the vanilla mechanics for casters without frost spells. If you take too long to freeze the boss, you be overwhelmed by poison damage. I donât think you understand how this fight works.
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rub it in hordeâŠ
and will suffer massive pushback
We thought so back then but no one was actually 100% on that.
Frost wands may not have actually been doing frost damage, that is part of the mystery thatâs Vanilla WoW.
We ASSUMED back in Vanilla that Frost wands and certain melee weapons like the ice hacker off Raz did actual frost damage but those melee weapons do not, instead they were actually doing mechanical damage like a standard melee attack, but the attack ignored armor. Its very possible the frost damage on a frost wand is exactly the same situation.
And thatâs the rub, we did not know for sure back then and just did it that way because we really did not know absolutely so it was just customary repeat that information even if it was wrong.
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There was no mystery in this case. We had logs back then too, you realize. How do you think the disgusting oozling trick was discovered?
Youâve clearly never done this boss as you have no understanding of the most basic of its mechanics, so Iâm not sure why you keep saying âweâ.
You claim regarding wands and schools of magic damage are easily disproven on chromaggus and the spell school vulnerability wyrmkin trash in bwl.
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You are still assuming we were correct, and we were not.
Blizzard just recently confirmed 100% we were wrong about certain melee weapons having the capability of doing what we ASSUMED wands could also do.
As I was trying to point out, we ASSUMED that the frost wands and frost weapon work, but turns out that the weapons that we were theory crafting about do not work.
We never bothered to ask about wands, and maybe if we had Blizzard may have said something.
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Those melee weapons were like that in vanilla - it was known. I remember melee dps in our raids ranting about it fairly vividly.
Wands did not behave this way on viscidus, and blizzard did not mention wands.
Those are MELEE weapons with additional damage on top of physical. We do know that elemental based wand damage is tracked and applied with bonuses in BWL on the Drakkonids. So, your giant quote is kind of meaningless by itself.
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Stop letting the troll take control of the post and letâs get back on topic. Iâm tending to agree with the fact that resists and moving out of abilities werenât being accounted for in the video you linked.
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No kidding, as if I did not already point that out.
Donât know that for sure now do you.
Maybe instead of being all butthurt about it, we wait for Blizzard to respond, they have actually been reasonable when it comes to bugs and bug fixes.
They fixed the damn eye beam in a day, its not like this is a real game breaker. Oh darn the boss is not just gonna fold and we cant just go fart on him and collect loot, guess we do some PVE mechanics. Damn the bad luck.
Dude⊠ADAPT, and stop crying about it. IF its busted blizzard will fix it, it may take them some time to get around too it, but the boss is not unkillable or anything ridiculous.
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