That is true, but they might decide to nerf ive cap into the ground, or buff breath of sindragosa so it blatantly outshines. I’ll reserve my final judgement for when we are near the end of beta or in 9.0.
Not trying to be pessimistic, just trying to be realistic.
Lightburn? I find paladins reassuringly easy to stay alive. my former DK Goblin (grew irritated of the male brox voice, so he went deleted), couldn’t survive a rainstorm in Zandalar, but my paladins are whomping everything they see.
Don’t get my wrong i love my ret paladin but if i had to choose between 2 handers spec classes will choose frost 2hander over my ret plus i don’t have time like i used to to many games i want to play soon lol!After beating Doom eternal i noticed i miss new games by now.
Abilities, sure, but when you have weapon choice it will end up being that one is better than the other, and the people who prefer the other option (aka people whose transmog uses the opposing model) will complain.
That’s really what my concern is. I don’t do anything too crazy so a small difference wouldn’t really impact me but if memory serves they were ever only balanced at either a a very particular gear level and got wildly imbalanced the further you got from that gear point.
I think that having options like 2H vs DW is good but, as far as I’m aware, they haven’t really said anything about why (or if, I guess) they think they’ll be able to keep them relatively balanced when they never could in the past.
Too early to say. There are a few directions they could take frost, but I dont think this current iteration, or the iteration on the Alpha right now, are super turbo amazing. Honestly not a lot is really changing. It’s going to be better than it is now, but honestly the new tools look fairly marginal, and don’t forget we’re losing Azerite. There are a few Azerite traits and Essences I’m worried about losing, specificially regarding resource generation. Losing Lucid Dreams and Visions of Perfection cut Frost’s resrouce generation down pretty hard, which could be really rough because Frost can be absurdly slow at the start of an expansion. Blizz needs to increase resource generation to compensate for Essences, and I’m unsure if they have.
2h frost is really neat thematically (Halls of Reflection LK is the definitive Frost DK, and now we can play it), but based on the datamining we have, it doesn’t look like it’ll be worth dropping a rune slot for, which is unfortunate. 2h frost needs more tuning passes if it wants to be a real spec.