Originally Posted by
Ishayu
As a feral player for 10 years that just rerolled Frost Mage: Absolutely not.
The feral rotation was absolutely ridiculous. You have 5 different abilities that snapshot your bleeds. One is a short term cooldown, 2 are medium term cooldowns, 1 is a very long cooldown, and the last one becomes available as a proc, which you must wait until 4 combo points to use. You must get to 4 combo points soon or the proc is lost, which can actually fail because the energy regeneration is so low. On top of that, there's 3 bleeds that needs to be kept up at all times, and every single one of them can snapshot with all of the above, and one of those abilities is a finishers, and one of them is applied whenever you get a Clearcasting proc. Any attempt to deviate from the most punishing spec nerfed your DPS by approximately 25%.
Overall, the core rotation consists of 13 buttons. On top of that, energy and combo point management is very tight, and any failure to look ahead ~10 seconds will result in a colossal (about 35%) DPS loss.
While I do like a hard rotation, this thing was completely crazy, and I'm glad Blizzard took a look at it.
EDIT: Quote the wrong person.