I miss Thermal Void being an viable option. Sounds to me like Malon forgot about this spell after not having it as baseline for a long time. Frost Mage Winter's Chill Changes: April 10th. Hower, the unpruning did nothing to frost mages and channeling FoF procs into Winter’s Chill just feels terrible as well. Moving into Shadowlands, Winter’s Chill is now a much longer debuff that causes Frost Mages’ next two spells to treat the target as frozen, a debuff that increases the critical hit chance from the Frost Mage. Shadowlands 9.0.1 Alpha Build 34081 Covenant Ability Changes. This article, written by Malon, will provide details on the current state of Frost Mage in Shadowlands, to help you to prepare for the upcoming expansion and is updated for yesterday's hotfixes! ).we no need make aoe DMG with this stupid frozen orb and ice Lance spam. However, I will say that Deathborne is better than you give it credit for. However, I will say that Deathborne is better than you give it credit for.Radiant Spark is nice, but it will only affect 1 Glacial Spike every 30 seconds. You still want the target frozen by other means to maximize your damage. X being your crit percentage and Y being the damage modifier. they did, now we are about half way through. It uses a stack system to achieve this, with each Flurry bolt applying two stacks of Winter's Chill to the target (overwriting each other). I think it could easily get to 4 if I build more into Haste. Im saying this over X years. It feels bad to cast it, it turns Brain Freeze (which used to be a fun button to press whenever I got it) into a pre-requisite to cast the spell that's 40% of my dps. You might play to see big numbers, but competitive raiders, M+ players and so on play the spec that outputs the most damage overall. Wago Addons. I miss my beloved frost mage feeling like a frost mage. I assume Frost Mage doesn't have lackluster GCDs then? Would even give IV more value as a CD with little change. Perhaps a long-shot, but take lessons from the efforts of high-level theorycrafters to redesign the way Frost works. That way your first spell takes up the first stack then flurry the next two and finally Glacial Spike as the fourth? Weak Aura to track the Winter's Chill debuff from Flurry with a Brain Freeze on the target. In Shadowlands (patch 9.0 onwards), Winter's Chill is a debuff on the enemy that is only applied when you cast a Flurry that is empowered by your Brain Freeze at level 37 onwards. Nice write up of the class.Though, instead of returning our Mastery to Frostburn, make it a passive that scales with crit above the shatter-cap, which we in turn can get to by returning Shatter to it's 2x multiplier. VuhDo. Reminds me of the heat-resouce rework of spriest in late Legion. I won't talk much about Covenant abilities because I don't really know how conduits will play into them and such. And even if you put together proper Ice Lance build it just doesn't work. And it sucks seeing that you have procs of Fingers of Frost and knowing that to use them would be a dps loss. Always use Fingers of Frost before using Brain Freeze procs. Because we like to see that huge number flash over the screen. Slightly out of date as Shimmer now has three charges but.. y'know. Make Ice Lance freeze for 1 second so the Icicles can actually do some damage. And remove it from GCD to make it more comfortable to use. even without the +10% damage it'd be nice to place orb isnetad of it gettin stuck on random rogue pixels, stoppingit's path on critters or the first mob of a pack (missing the rest in a group), or flat out flying straight through everything. Can someone post this on the alpha forum please ?Mostly for the mastery....... LF QoL option to allow the pvp talent for Concentrated Coolness in pve. Fix the Shatter combo and its interaction with Flurry travel time/Winter’s Chill to work at all ranges. Login account_circle. en. It's not because of the weird procs or anything. mars 8, 2021; Uncategorized Previously Winter’s Chill was tied to Flurry’s movement speed debuff, which created tight windows and required distance checks to achieve the maximum-damage bonuses. Absolutely fantastic that these are being fully thought out and include a working demo where you can test and tweak (I found 3 charges of brain freeze with 75% returned on proc to be more enjoyable, personally). Plater Nameplates. Because we like to see that huge number flash over the screen.Right now in BfA, Ice Lance relies on Frost Orb to be relevant through that Azerite trait. Always use Fingers of Frost before using Brain Freeze procs. Druid Class Changes Clarifications: April 13th. Sorry if I have bad English lol. All Shadowlands Class Changes. VERY hard. Again, Frost isn't all about Glacial Spike's big numbers. They scale with Mastery, they don't rely on hitting a Frozen target to do their maximum DPS - you seem to have completely misunderstood how they work. It would work better, for all specs, as a defensive or utility option. It literally is a defensive/utility spell. menu. Especially since it really doesn't ever feel good when you do everything right, saving BF for GS if talented or performing the shatter combo properly and not seeing the spells crit as if you didn't even try to shatter the opponent. Also, there is no conflict of procs and wasted resources. This change will boost the chance of crits against the enemy by both Mage and allies. The cast time spell you cast previously will then impact the target and gain the benefit of Shatter afterwards. However, the melee range issue is still present, and the combo … It's not because of the weird procs or anything. Get five combo-I mean, icicles, cast the big spell. Thank you Wowhead and Malon for taking the time to give such an in-depth analysis. Because it feels mandatory. If I want to play Thermal Void, I lose out on a bunch of dps, and even though I don't play at the top tier, I still want to be as useful as possible to help my raid team. Blizzard.... Maybe put back deep freeze and give more DMG to frostbolt (it Is a main spell, u know? No, people play No Ice Lance because it scales much, much better than standard Frost, to the point where casting Ice Lance is a DPS loss. And again, since Frost's spells calculate their Critical status on the moment of impact, you should cast it immediately afterwards rather than wait for Winter's Chill to apply to the target. But blizzard is just blizzard so maybe in 2 more expansions they will totallly revert all the bull^&*! Class Buffs Nerfed in Shadowlands So I have to take Ebonbolt to ensure I have Brain Freeze when I need it. Shadowlands … It's a 6s debuff with two stacks, with each stack being consumed every time you use an Ice Lance on the affected mob. Kommentar von Athosian on 2020-04-10T20:48:00-05:00 . Moving into Shadowlands, Winter’s Chill is now a much longer debuff that causes Frost Mages’ next two spells to treat the target as frozen, a debuff that increases the critical hit chance from the Frost Mage and their allies against the target. Wago Addons. We'll choose a Covenant ability based on which performs the best overall, not on how many Glacial Spikes we can fit into it. As someone who mains Frost mage ever since ever, I will respectfully disagree with your wrong opinions. Ice Barrier creates a barrier of ice around you, absorbing damage for 1 minute. Can anyone give a situation where a Frost Mage ever cast Fire Blast? It would be a smaller damage increase against the utility.And you completely missed the mark for why No-ice-lance is so popular. And let's be honest, Ice Lance even on frozen targets doesn't do a whole lot of damage.What doesn't help is that you still need to fill with Frost Bolts to generate Icicles and with Ice Lance being instacast on GCD, your main rotation will have this uncomfortable period of you waiting for GCD to run out every couple of seconds.Want to fix Ice Lance? The return of Frostburn Mastery and giving Flurry charges + built-in Winter's Chill - with Icy Veins and Brain Freeze lowering its recharge time - would protect against dry streaks of no procs (bad luck protection), future-proof the spec against dropping Ice Lance and make Icy Veins a more interactive and interesting ability. Winter's Chill will consider the target frozen—Ice Lance will Shatter and gain the triple damage benefit, just as if it were cast under Fingers of Frost. Spamming Ice Lance isn't a good idea so that change won't hurt anyone, or slap 1-second cooldown on it if you are too worried about that. 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