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DPS Rotation without Epidemic (frost)
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skribs
I'm actually debating about whether or not I want to try a frost build that skips out on Epidemic, with my rotation being a repitition of 1 10-sec-cycle instead of 2 cycles. The basic principle is that I have BotN and that my attacks are really only dependent on having frost fever up (glacier rot, HB), especially if I glyph Oblit.
The rotation (which would require a blood tap at an obvious point on the first cycle, every other cycle would consume a death rune and then create one with blood strike):
IT - (if Rime procs, HB) - OB - (first cycle, Blood Tap) OB - BS
The purpose would be for DPSing or tanking in grouped PvE content.
Pros:
Double the quantity of Rime procs to give me an extra HB, and thus 20 RP and 1/2 a frost strike.
By refreshing FF every 10 sec of a 12 sec duration, instead of 20 sec of an 18 second duration, it keeps FF up on the targets 100% of the time instead of 90%. Improvement in mitigation.
I can use PT to spread diseases while still generating a death rune (compared to unholy, which only gets death runes from AoE via BB). Thus resulting in only needing 1 blood rune even for AoE, while still maintaining the cycle. Although HB becomes more important than OB in AoE.
Gives a quicker setup than the top-DPS rotation on long fights (the 2/2).
Cons:
Lose some damage on OB (not a lot if glyphed) and BS (although not a lot since it's used twice per cycle and doesn't hit hard).
For AoE, doesn't present a second disease which allows for some extra damage. Although it would be easy to simply replace OB with PS+BB if I needed to. If HB gets the CD removed, this would give me a steady 2-3 HBs right off the bat, however.
The purpose of this post is to ask if the possible loss of damage on BS and glyphed OB is too steep a price (especially with the chance at an extra HB) for the rotation to not include PS, and if it is actually a viable alternative to a 20-sec rotation with epidemic, to inform the community.
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skribs
I came up with the idea when I was fighting water elementals as unholy, and I couldn't use IT. What I would do is just PS - SS - SS - BS, then move on to the next mob. This is the same basic principle.
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skribs
For tanking, I was going with 5/5/5, which then lead me to also want Bladed Armor and Morbidity, thus I ended up with a deep frost build, picking up tundra stalker. Can't get VotTW and Anticipation with 45 in frost.
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skribs
Blax, your comment did not address anything in my post at all. It also did not factor for death runes, and pretty much anyone with half a brain could have figured that would be the basic rotation. I was trying a DIFFERENT approach and looking for COMPARISONS between the obvious and the proposed.
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