Warning for Valtiel: 4. Whining in any form is forbidden.

• Chicken · 06/22/09, 6:21 AM

Post: Frozen Blows -- Frost DPS (Updated 06.11.09)
User: Valtiel
Infraction: 4. Whining in any form is forbidden.
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Your post is edging towards the "unconstructive whining" part of the complaint spectrum.

Original Post:

Once again, I can't see the logic of making Frost the DW tree.

Both blood and Uh have more desireable talents for a DW build.

Blood is a no brainer - with DW builds, white damage is where the money is, and Dark Conviction and Dark Vengeance are gonna contribute to that more than almost any other talent in the trees. It's already clear that Blood Gorged will be out of the way, but it would once again be the best tier 10 talent set for a DW build. VotTW, Hysteria... blood is brilliant for DW.

Unholy also has plenty of goods for DW builds. Blood Caked Blades, Necrosis, Impurity, Gargoyle, the pet.

Now, ToT changes the way we look at DW because it does away with the idea that abilites not based on weapon damage are "bad" for it.

However, this also removes much of the charm of Frost. HB isn't the best FU strike for DW anymore (thank god, because going 51 frost will be impossible). So what now the Frost tree has to offer to DW?

More or less nothing. There's basically no post tier 3 talent that will interact well with DW. Frost strike will be nice, but with ToT working on Death Strike, DW builds would perform a lot better if ToT was a blood or even unholy talent.

Besides, if you take Frost strike, you can't take Bloody Vengeance, nor Dark Conviction. You're gonna spend points in talents that are inferior for DW builds just to get to a strike that will yes be better than DC but probably not so better than what DC plus all the goodies you're giving up to would have been.

That's about it. I can't understand Blizzard's obsession for making Frost the DW tree when it's the one that has less synergy with DW speccs.