I have full ilvl 626 pvp gear and notice in details that my average ice lance crit is 380k but most frost mages I’m playing against are averaging 530k crits. This is all data from details and about 3 hours of skirmishes today. I’m running Ray of Frost and Glacial Spike. What is the spec that is allow frost mages to average Ice Lance crits at 500k+?
There are a lot of modifiers to Ice Lance lately that can cause these fluctuations:
Permafrost Lances - 15% damage increase
Wintertide - 20% damage increase if you use Fingers of Frost into already frozen target
Chain Reaction - can stack up to 10% damage increase
Incanter’s Flow - fluctuates between 2% and 10% damage increase
Icy Veins - additional 10% damage increase from Frigid Empowerment
And so on. These combined can have same Ice Lance on same spec jump between 400k and 600k crits easily. Other possible reason is that they could play build with more Mastery that also boosts damage of Ice Lance or Frostfire that provides Mastery increasing stacks of Frost Mastery buff.
my build does not have ray of frost or glacial spike. my guess is you are getting rid of some of the modifiers the other mages are running and instead have your talent points in those two spells. I cant remember the name of the talent but there is a 2 point talent on the far right side that will increase ice lance by 10% if enemy is frozen or snared. that is an important talent since we are constantly snaring in pvp. I am still leveling my mage and have done no pvp as of yet but I am running what I plan to run in pvp to get used to the spec
frozen and rooted btw, it requires both for the damage amp.
I watched a pvp video where he went over that our ice nova, cone of cold, and frost nova (if done quickly) all trigger that damage boost. I guess he could of been lying but he showed his work on the test dummies. Mage is still new to me so I wont pretend i know for sure. just basing it off the video
Yes they do, because they root and freeze (assuming a certain CoC talent), a snare is a slow in WoW, like the slow our frostbolt provides. So just wanted to clarify the fact that it requires a root, and that the condition is and, not or. Been a common misunderstanding in the history of this talent.
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Ahh ok gotcha. and yea we got a lot of slows lol. like everything we do slows. makes it a good pvp spec. getting really excited about taking this spec into pvp. especially the battleground blitz
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