My initial reaction to this was “F You, 2h Frost is finally back”, but let’s break it down a bit.
So, Frost falling off a cliff - I can’t speak for PvE, but in PvP it’s absolutely lovely. Every expansion, no matter how much they try, there’s always one spec that outperforms DPS wise.
For Blood, Blood is a niche type of tank, always has been. A lot of us have fond memories of WotLK, where we never really ‘tanked’, we just DPS’d in Frost Presence, and it just worked. Blood will bounce back, probably when the next raid comes out, there’s currently only one raid, and as a general rule, every raid has a tank spec or two that’s just not as viable. Remember MoP? Brewmasters, the new class, were such awful tanks that no one would touch them for the first tier, but by the end of the Xpack, there were plenty.
Unholy has high sustain, that’s basically what it’s built around, so it’s naturally going to do well in PvE, because it doesn’t rely on cooldowns for damage, it just…Does damage.
We’re early into the xpack, there’s only one raid to judge any of this off of, and yeah, sure there’s M+, but those aren’t exactly the best ways to judge a class this early. Each one has its own mechanics, and goals, and no single spec is going to fit that as S+ every single time.
Bottomline for me is, Frost 2h is back, and PvP is fun again, please don’t take this away from me.
