As a solution to prevent any of the balancing concerns from yesteryear, I propose allowing frost DK’s to transmog their DW 1-handers into a 2H. My inspiration comes mainly from the holy paladin artifact and how it can be mogged over a 1H and shield. Seems like the technology exists to bring this about.
This would trivialize any of the concerns about balancing DW and 2H frost independently of each other whilst also giving the players who miss 2H frost that option back. A win-win for everybody as far as I see it. If this was something they wanted to make an exclusive privilege to frost, what I’d do is make it into a passive ability, name it something like Threat of Thassarian or whatever, doesn’t matter, and give it the specific tooltip of allowing frost DK’s to transmogrify 2H weapons over their 1H’s.
Attack speed shouldn’t be a concern. Say something like frost DK’s leech the heat of their victims so they can attack faster if it really bothers someone.
And only because I’ve had to debate this subject before, I believe that this should also extend to classes like survival hunters who wanna duel wield, ww monks who wanna use a staff, fury warriors who want SMF weapons, and enh shaman who want to use a 2H.
Blizzard. The time has come. Do everybody a favor and let the classes who are crying out for these styles to be returned to them mog into their desired style.