Originally Posted by
Akraen
I don't know about that. Frost bomb is borderline unusable by frost mages. It requires impossible timing or precognition based of its fluctuating cooldown. It also takes a relatively mobile spec and makes it worse than arcane.
The synergy comes from brain freeze procs, but that's it. Something -must- change with it or it'll continue to be PvP only.
I think everyone would first suggest castable while moving, and while that is a bad thing-- it's the fluctuating cooldown that is the realm problem. It's very hard to have something that takes a second to cast that is your top priority come off cooldown anywhere between 2.3 and 6.6 seconds. You can't plan for it, you can't react, you can't cancel cast, all you can do is attempt to be psychic.
See my recent posts in my guide for more info on that, but yeah that's something I would like to see them look at for 6.0. Nothing radical, just make it more usable. Maybe haste can give it another benefit rather than a dynamic cooldown. Maybe the more haste you get, the quicker it ticks, and each time it explodes it places another bomb on a nearby target (or itself), until 6 sec ends.
Then it's not a DoT, but kind of acts like one, and the people who don't enjoy multidot don't have to deal with it.