1. Haste being the best stat for over 2 years doesn't mean that I have to like it. The fact that it was only the best stat because our baseline rune regeneration speed is atrocious at best doesn't make it a desireable stat. It's fixing a badly designed class mechanic. The fact that the hastecap is as high as it takes for you to get runecapped should be a hint as to why this is a broken mechanic. Haste is great, but it does NOTHING for a DK except ensure that we don't runestarve. Nothing about it is interesting. Having haste affect dots for Unholy, however, suddenly makes it very interesting. Shadow Priests, Warlocks and Boomkins have dots that scale with haste and the only melee dot class doesn't get it? That needs to be addressed.
Something for you to think about. "The better the player, the worse the value of haste" That is just another point that has been true for the past couple of years.
2. UF affects our ranged haste, Garry copies our stats, hence it affects Garry very much. And yes, it doesn't affect our dots, that is why I suggested it should. And true haste scaling for dots is something the other classes have already. Did you even try to understand what I posted or are you just contradicting me for the sake of contradicting me?
3. I don't want to turn us into warriors that only care about crit. Hence my suggestion earlier to have dots scale with haste. Again, do you even read the stuff other people write? The reason why I suggested the crit synergy with runic power is exactly to bring crit up in value and have it equal to haste. The current UH metagame where crit/haste are about equal is cool and I don't see how that is a bad thing. But making the stats more interesting and helping us scale better is a good idea, because that is exactly how we're behind these days. It's not that the class is too difficult or whatever, it's that our class mechanics are shite and nothing but "you get 20% more x" is not really enough to fix broken class mechanics.
4. Glad you agree to the obvious.
5. Again, have you read what I typed? Return HB to being a proper AE spell, with a cost of 2 and a rune regen haste effect in sustained AE situations. But make sure that the single target of IT is superior to HB. That can work quite easily and here's the kicker, it doesn't necessarily mean "lower damage" but it definitely means "controlled damage". How often am I fucked as DW Frost when my raid lead tells me to stop AEing for some reason and I have to tell him "Um, yeah... that's just your opinion man, I don't do anything BUT AE spamming HB". That idiocy has to stop. There is no other class that can't stop AEing because the only proper AE they have is incidentally the #1 single target spell. Yes, rework is required for this, but it is one major idiocy that really needs to be addressed, because once you think about it, Frost is completely shite as a spec with broken mechanics.
6. Um... yes, they are strong. But there is a reason why these "you do X plus damage for every disease that is on the mob" effects are on SS and OB. I have played blood diseaseless and Blizzard burned their fingers very badly on that. It clearly showed that the community of players is a) quicker than Blizzard, b) smarter than Blizzard and c) has no qualms whatsofucking ever to do whatever it takes them to squeeze the last (even theoretical) bit of dps out of a class. So no, they won't take that chance again. It's bad enough that DW Frost basically cosists of spamming two buttons, one to fill up the runic power bar and one to deplete it. That's not exactly interesting or challenging gameplay. It bores me out of my mind and I am not going to play this class next expansion if this idiocy stays the same.
As for your last sentence, I'm not trying to revert everything to WotLK, but the
design direction for Frost since mid-WotLK is the wrong one. And there is no shame nor disadvantage in going back to the original point of error and trying another, perhaps more sensible, direction. The alternative is a complete revamp of the spec and starting at 0. I don't think that is necessary, but we really have to stop the HB spam, it's getting boring after what, 5 years? Seriously...