Can we all discuss for a moment how much of a terrible design this talent is? At the moment in the PTR frost brand deals a minor amount of damage and enchants your weapons for 15 secs so that they slow the target by 50% per hit for 3 sec. It costs 20 maelstrom, has a 10yd range and requires a target.
This is supposed to be our replacement for frost shock. It lacks an immediate snare effect on the target. Even if it did provide with an instant snare effect, it lacks the range to be of any use at all. Even if they somehow did provide an immediate effect and range, it requires a resource which you start at 0 with. There's too many wrong things with this talent to be called an effective replacement for frostshock. Right now if you want to close a gap in pvp you must invest into either earthgrab or feral lounge, 45sec and 30sec cds respectively, something most other classes can already do with much shorter cooldowns or better snares. They should just give us frost shock back imo. Anyone have thoughts on this?