Frost Mage Review of Frostfire Hero Talents - Fantastic Aesthetic But Proc Rate & AoE Concerns

Live Pubblicato 13/02/2024 alle 16:23 da Dorovon

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Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. With the release of Alpha, Blizzard has previewed most Hero Talents Trees coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
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Frost Mage First Impressions: Frostfire Hero Talentsseveral new Hero Talent Tree previews

Things I Like

Potential Concerns

Keystone: Frostfire MasteryMente Fredda

The value of Haste as a stat will increase because it will make it easier to consistently reach maximum stacks of .

There are likely to be cases where casting Detonazione di Fuoco to gain a stack will allow you to reach maximum stacks of in a cycle when you would otherwise be unable to. Spending a GCD on this to get a Mente Fredda proc from would be very worthwhile, but some players may not like having Detonazione di Fuoco in their rotation.

Weaker procs like Dita di Gelo might be ignored in favor of casting more s.

Lancia di GhiaccioDardo di GeloFrammenti di GhiaccioGrandineMaestria: Frammenti di GhiaccioDardo di GeloLancia di GhiaccioDardo di GeloLancia di GhiaccioDardo di GeloBomba ViventeCapstone: Flash FreezeburnVene GelideVene GelideVene GelideChoice NodesBarriera FiammeggianteBarriera di GhiaccioProtezione della TrinitàBarriera FiammeggianteBarriera PrismaticaBarriera di GhiaccioFreddo Come il GhiaccioOndata di FuocoBlocco di GhiaccioFreddo Come il GhiaccioDetonazione di FuocoOndata di FuocoSoffio del DragoDetonazione di FuocoOndata di FuocoSoffio del DragoOndata di FuocoSoffio del DragoOndata di FuocoSoffio del DragoProntezza GelidaBlocco di GhiaccioFreddo Come il GhiaccioOndata di FuocoSoffio del DragoBlocco di GhiaccioFreddo Come il GhiaccioDesign Questions and Minor Issues

How often do and proc? Because and puts a lot of emphasis on reaching maximum stacks of and , the expected proc rate of these effects is going to be very important for the gameplay of Frostfire. If the proc rates are too low, Frost Mages will struggle to reach maximum stacks of consistently (especially in AoE situations), Detonazione di Fuoco may enter the rotation, and Lancia di Ghiaccio may fall out of the rotation. If the proc rates are too high, then will likely be mostly ignored and will just be a passive buff. Where exactly these proc rates need to be depends a lot on the design intent for Frostfire.

Some of the nodes further lock you into Tempesta di Comete. does not do anything if the Frost Mage does not have Tempesta di Comete talented and some of the effect from is lost without it as well. Tempesta di Comete is a fun talent so I don't mind this too much, but it is still a further restriction in a talent tree that already has very little diversity in node selection.

Tormenta can lose ticks when the Mage's Haste is dynamically reduced. Because Tormenta's duration is hasted when the cast finishes while its tick rate adjusts dynamically, whenever falls off Tormenta's new reduced tick rate will likely result in at least one lost tick for that cast.

It is a little strange with and that Fire is better than Frost at the shared Frost spells and vice versa. This feels especially weird as a Frost Mage in situations where Ondata di Fuoco and Soffio del Drago are not useful, because this node doesn't really do anything in those cases regardless of which choice you pick. It might be better to have these choices only affect utility spells and give both specs both the Fire and Frost portions.

Hard to control AoE procs like and can accidentally break crowd control. This could be especially problematic in PvP where Mages sometimes try to avoid passive and random cleave specifically for this reason.

Closing ThoughtsAltered TimeSimulationCraftBDGFrostfire MasteryImbued WardingMeltdownFrostfire BoltElemental AffinityFlame & FrostIsothermic CoreSevere TemperaturesThermal ConditioningFrostfire InfusionExcess FrostFrostfire EmpowermentExcess FireFlash FreezeburnFire MasteryFrost Mastery

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