So as many of you might know, I’m a strong advocate for the return of 2H Frost Death Knights. Now I understand the heavy sighs coming from all of you at this point, but I want to improve Frost in more ways than just giving them the ability to use a 2H weapon. I want to start by changing the boring mastery we have now, and giving more flavor for the rest of the spec as well.
New Mastery, Old Talent:
The idea I had for Frost’s new mastery was bringing back an old talent, Might of the Frozen Wastes. This made Frost unique and provided players two ways of playing the spec. Yes, most of the time, dual-wielding was the mid-max thing to do. So, what can we do to make them pretty even? Well we need to look at what made dual-wielding superior in the first place. The chance for your off-hand to proc Killing Machine was a huge reason, back when Killing Machine affected Frost Strike. Another reason was that dual-wielding scaled really well with our current mastery, Frozen Heart.
After Legion, Frost is a hollow shell of both the playstyles, an abomination fused into one. My suggestion is the following;
Mastery: Might of the Frozen Wastes
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Wielding a two-handed weapon increases Obliterate damage by 50%, and deals an extra 25% damage as frost damage.
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Dual-wielding increases Frost Strike damage by 100% and gives your off-hand weapon attacks a 40% chance to hit for full damage.
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Increases the damage of your Frost abilities by 16%.
Now in theory, this should be the perfect balance for everything. Will it? I don’t know, I really want to test it. Could this perhaps make dual-wielding stronger still, maybe. Some of you might think that all of this together is broken, but really it is just our current mastery tied with a revamped version of an old passive.
Beyond this though, we also need to fix the Rune System. Dual-wielding will still be favored do to Rune of Razorice and Fallen Crusader combo. Which can be fixed with a new passive;
Master of the Rune Blade:
- Allows the Death Knight to emblazon their two-handed weapon with two runes.
With this and the new mastery, this should make both choices fairly even. Of course, we won’t know until we can test the idea. More improvements to frost involve the;
- Merging of Pillar of Frost and Empowered Rune Weapon
- Making Breath of Sindragosa and Horn of Winter baseline.
- Change Obliteration back to its Legion version.
There is more to add but I am still compiling thoughts for that currently. I will give you guys more on a later date but for now, let’s here what you think.
Do you think it will work? Will it not? Let’s discuss.