Post by Zakkhar
Erm, are you level 70? No wotlk? Or still leveling?
Not taking Fingers of Frost is shooting youself in the foot.
I will shortly explain.
When you cast spells with chill effects (basically all spells you have excluding Ice Lance) there is 15% chance to proc FoF & Frostbite at the same time (same roll). Whenever your Frostbite proces, FoF proces as well. Now why FoF > Frostbite.
First of all in PvP people will have certain ways of getting out of you Frostbite (Hand of Freedom, PvP trinket, Warbringer, Bestial Wrath, Bladestorm etc etc). Frostbite is considered snare/root effect therefore every possible resistance and counter attack works on it. It basically means you may not (and most likely wont) have a chance to gain anything from the fact it procced. Till you get next spell out your target may be out of Frostbite or even dead. This means its wasted.
In PvE all boss mobs are immune to roots/snares so this means you are basically wasting 3 talent points on useless talent (while not putting two points in great talent).
Where FoF shines is Blizzard. More mobs & more haste = more little snaring spells being cast in a second, which means more chances to proc FoF and since blizzard attacks in same second guess what = all your 2 next ticks will become crits (most likely). With Frostbite you cannot achieve that because a lot of mobs will resist the frostbite effect.
If you are in instance with bad tank you got 2(3) Novas (yours, WE and Cold snapped Nova) and Ice Block. Frostbite is PvP talent. If you are trying to slow down flag carrier use polymorph, kill his healers and proceed on killing the carrier.
Notice Fingers of Frost proc is never wasted (unless you dont cast anything within its duration) no matter whether the target is immune for roots, is already dead and you are attacking different target, or just broke the root effect. You cant have any oppoenent resist Finger of Frost simply because its not a debuff but a buff.
Notice also the cost of talents. 3 talent points for sometimes helpfull Frostbite vs 2 talent points for godly talent which does exactly all Frostbite did and more but doesnt root (this talent defines Frost tree atm)
This is the build i would use if i was you:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#oZZVIcssfuhfzgfsx:mjZoNotice i havent takent Shattered Barrier, its because its purely pvp talent. It may help in aoe grinding but most of the time it will screwe your pull instead.
As for Brain Freeze procs, i am using certain macro, which may help you:
#showtooltip
/cast Frosbolt
/cast Fireball
Now if i get brain freeze proc i just cast another Frostbolt with shift on. You can of course bind it to Ice lance as well as both are instant ranged attacks.