I haven’t taken the time to play Arcane/Fire post changes in 10.1.5 but for the longest time I was a big advocate for arcane getting the barrage/arcane orb interaction from the old legion legendary back and was super hyped about that.
Main reason I wanted to make a post was to just commend the team on frost mage. The changes to Mastery and Icy veins have made long dead or underutilized spells actually feel impactful. The days of just spamming ice lance to keep icy veins up was incredibly dull and having my entire kit now feel alive and impactful has been incredibly fun. While I can agree with some people that maybe frost appears “bloated” with the addition of Glacial Spike, Ray of Frost and Comet storm into the main rotation, I didnt have to add any additional keybinds to make them fit on my bars and I’d rather have this version of frost than the simple 3 button rotation of old.
Again just my opinion but my hat is off to you devs on frost mage in particular.
But real talk can we please do something about Hunters :') It’s in need of some major tlc.
I too am loving the changes to frost, I tried fire and while I enjoy the spec frost is just so much fun!
I am loving Frost too in raid and M+. For M+ we lost one keybind (ROP) and gained 2. For raid lost the ROP but gained 3.
I don’t know why people act like every spell in the spell book needs a keybind. You just need the basics. In a raid you don’t need any utility spells like Spell steal or Decurse.
Also I got to agree about hunters, give them back Aspect of the Fox.
3 actually. CoC (unless you used it for snowstorm, but most didn’t), comet storm, glacial spike. Also 3 for raid - comet storm, glacial spike, ray of frost
Also pet freeze, but you can just macro it into something like comet storm
CoC was always on my bars, it helped big time for kiting. Back In the days of necrotic that 70% slow helps tanks escape and drop stacks.
And I never played Snowstorm, it always was a DPS loss.
I never bothered with the Pet Freeze since you only gain access to it for short periods and it’s useless for 90% of raid fights. If our water ele was permanent and viable I would for sure have it on my bars.
I find it’s more useful to talent into extra Frost Novas for more shattering opportunities and pair that with the talent that makes Frost Nova a more Durable root. Comet Storm has a delay in landing so you can Squeak in a Frost Nova before it lands.
And also remember we gained a keybind back with the loss of RoP.
The big gripe that this forum misses is that Frost is tied to Melee to do AOE.
80% for 6s isn’t much more than your 100% uptime blizzard with 60%. +blast wave if you really need more slow
I prefer using Ice nova to shatter first comet storm, since it’s ranged. Or as i’ve said with pet - i macro petfreeze into comet storm