It seems weird they didn't revert the last frost bomb change back to 5 seconds. It' going to get dispelled almost every time now.
It seems weird they didn't revert the last frost bomb change back to 5 seconds. It' going to get dispelled almost every time now.
With these change, does it mean that haste will benefit more than mastery for frost mages in pvp?
I used to go full reforge into mastery ( bigger crits owned healers in rbgs ) until now. Mastery is what made that frost bomb hit so hard, so with the 50% nerf, I foresee haste benefiting us more in therms of casting speed and detonating frost bomb ( in arenas at least )
This nerf for Frost was done after more than two months of seeing it shine in PvP. The more people practiced and got better with triggering Shatter Frost Bombs, the more it became a problem. After the recent Warrior and Hunter burst damage nerfs (this is not the place to discuss their extent or success), our Frost Bomb was next in line. It will have only a marginal effect in PvE environments, possibly a slightly more obvious effect in Challenge Modes.
Oh no! I cant kill ppl with 1 shot anymore
They need to give me another instant kill spell (maybe a atomic bomb that will explode all enemies in my LOS)
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Last edited by Biruta; 2012-12-12 at 01:41 PM.
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Is that constructive feedback at all or just class rage?
As far as the change goes, i don't feel it's a good change because they're effectively killing a playstyle that is based on having control on Frost Bomb's detonation.
Frost burst needs a nerf, but this isn't really a nerf to burst, it's a nerf to our gameplay, setting up the burst will be less accessible, but when it happens, it'll be just as imbalanced.
Why not just nerf the damage a bit and let we still control detonation with fire blast?
That is why there is a 3-5 second delay on the detonation, there is quite a lot of time for a player to dispel it, pop cooldowns or otherwise prepare for the damage.
It is never surprise burst, it is forecast well in advance.
About time, though I still don't want to do arena 3s/5s if my resto is expected to just cyclone spam the entire fight.
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How is Mage/Lock/whatever in 3s? I'd imagine that would be a pretty dangerous combo against healing comps, but I'm just guessing from a different class' perspective.
Like warlocks, s.priests and moonkins. Wellcome to the casters universe, where the mages were not up to today.
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U can control your frost bomb detonation using fire blast, but the damage will be 50% reduced. You are not loosing any playstiye, u are loosing one of most overpowered burst damage in the game.
Last edited by Biruta; 2012-12-12 at 03:29 PM.
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It is nice that there are now some skill required to time things right to take full effect of it.
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