Can't wait for my DK to be benched for stacking fire mages again :)
Beautiful isn't it? They KILLED the reason why many players actually wanted to go 2-Handed with frost dk.First the legendary nerf on obliterate, now that.Why not just remove the passive effect entirely...
Removed
So you've nerfed the icecap talent badly and somehow forced the Sindragosa talent, in the same row. which just got nerf target capped to 5 enemies....Cause you know they target capped most of the AoE's? They target capped Howling Blast to 5 targets and nerfed the DoT damage.The only thing they've done is add the new class baseline abilities and added the 2 hand passive.So there is nothing to be excited about, because the only buff that frost gets really is the 2 hand passives' 30% increase (just got nerfed from 35%, still forcing 2hand) and adding the baseline abilities?...They just gave us a more complex rotation, with less damage and forced 2hand...
Have you watched the streams? Obliterate did a massive damage! and to be honest - 5% isn't that big of a deal. they will still perform good.
These nerfs to Frost DK (especially pillar of frost) are pretty massive. Basically after corruption is gone- icecap build is also gone. Wont be able to run it, especially with pillar of frost being 1 min cooldown. That is just sad. Obliteration build will be trash until 'might of the frozen waste' at lvl 58- so can't really run that either. The verdict is this- for another month I am pigeon-holed into running Breath of sindragosa until shadowlands. Hate to see it. We wont even be number 1 on the raiding charts in Ny'alotha either, since we suffer bigtime from mobility and boss movement. I am now 100% convinced blizzard doesn't know what they are doing with class design for frost DK. People already call me a rare unicorn for being one of the few frost dk's that have stuck with the class all through BFA. Sad to see this happen blizzard. I do not approve.
5% dmg nerf + 7% atk pwr scaling nerf + pillar of frost nerf... 2h frost getting aborted in the 3rd trimester.Fire buffs are nice but the gameplay is still ass so who cares?
WHAT THE #$%^ ARE YOU DOING WITH FROST DKS BLIZZARD?
It's almost like blizzard doesn't want frost dk to play anything other than breath of sindragosa. Why even have talent choices if 2/3 is the wrong choice?
I get frost DK's needed a slight nerf, but if they keep nerfing obliterate to the point it's weaker than breath of sindragosa, I will probably just roll ret paladin. I refuse to go back to doing breath build yet again. Just gotta hope they don't over nerf obliterate too much more. I can't say I'm a fan of pillar of frost nerf too.
DeathKnights why this nerf.... i main it that, They buff 2h and nerf more just after it's disgusting
They better have some developer insight, or be so disappointing for pillar of frost nerf.Pillar of frost (Pillar ) is the core ability for non-breath build.Since icecap reduce Pillar's cd, and Obliteration simply enhanced Pillar a lot.And from i heard, breath is still overall better than other build at most of the scenario.So this change just make breath better again compare to other two, i don't know what's the point of this.
Jesus can frost dks shine a bit for once,i dont care about the obliterate nerf but ffs pillar of frost cd getting extended is annoying af,especially for icecap build,at least give us a passive at lvl 54 or something that decreases the cd
A long time lurker and had to make an account just to ask; What the actual f****** h*** Blizzard?Edit: My question is about Frost DK nerf, just to delineate.
this company disgusts me, idiots.
Jesus f'n Christ just as 2 handed frost is actually gonna be good you just have push DW breath to be meta now do you?The 5% Obliterate nerf is kinda whatever but it doesn't help. But nerfing Pillar of Frost uptime by almost a 1/4 is freakin ridiculous.At this point removing/reworking Breath of Sindragosa is almost the only option. 95%+ of ppl don't want to play breath build yet it's pushed all the time.