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Guest Suichimo

I'm simply commenting to say that Shimmer should not be a top choice for its tier. It DOES NOT work exactly like regular Blink. The difference is that you lose the ability to Blink out of control impairing effects.

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Guest Mists

I didn't see an mention of the passive that increases ice lance damage by 20/40/60%  on frost bolt crits, but that seems to be fairly important when the rest of the spec is based around frost lance. 

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Guest Lemmy404

Do you try to keep Frozen Bomb up at all times? Don't know if i'm reading right that I should or that I should only do it when I have FoF procs ready to cast.

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On 12.9.2016 at 0:57 PM, Guest Suichimo said:

I'm simply commenting to say that Shimmer should not be a top choice for its tier. It DOES NOT work exactly like regular Blink. The difference is that you lose the ability to Blink out of control impairing effects.

We'll get the description fixed, but Shimmer is still the top choice for damage, since it does not interrupt spellcasting, assuming you do not want to force your healers to heal through Cauterize.

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22 hours ago, Guest Mists said:

I didn't see an mention of the passive that increases ice lance damage by 20/40/60%  on frost bolt crits, but that seems to be fairly important when the rest of the spec is based around frost lance. 

Which passive are you talking about? What is the name?

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21 hours ago, Guest Lemmy404 said:

Do you try to keep Frozen Bomb up at all times? Don't know if i'm reading right that I should or that I should only do it when I have FoF procs ready to cast.

You cast it when you can, but only proc the Shatter with 2 or more FoF procs.

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Guest Noelaitz

it would be nice to have a more detailed explanation of why lonely winter isnt viable.

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21 hours ago, Guest Noelaitz said:

it would be nice to have a more detailed explanation of why lonely winter isnt viable.

Generally if something is dismissed in this way, it is due to a simple numbers comparison of using the talent vs. not using it via simulations. There isn't a utility associated with the spell, so it must just be that, in an instanced environment, the talent does less DPS than either of the others.

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Generic comment being mass posted over the comments threads guys.

We are aware of the changes and our writers are working hard to update the guides to suit what has changed. Currently, there is a lot of work still to be done and it's unlikely that every guide will be up-to-date immediately. Expect a flood of updates over the coming days that will answer all of your questions about what is now best after X change, in time for the reset next week.

Thanks for your understanding and patience.

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Guest Tokpay
On 9/14/2016 at 5:20 PM, Blainie said:

Which passive are you talking about? What is the name?

Chain Reaction it is (Artifact trait)

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3 hours ago, Guest Tokpay said:

Chain Reaction it is (Artifact trait)

I don't think it will impact your rotation, you'll just follow the same thing with more damage, basically. Crit is already pretty valuable to you, so there won't be much impact on the weights either, I believe.

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Thanks for this very usefull guide. I know you can't really check your guides each times a hotfix hit live servers, but I would like to know if everything is up to date and still relevant now that mages have the rights to play other specs :p. On sims it shows that every specs are more or less equals in terms of power.

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7 minutes ago, Eukray said:

Thanks for this very usefull guide. I know you can't really check your guides each times a hotfix hit live servers, but I would like to know if everything is up to date and still relevant now that mages have the rights to play other specs :p. On sims it shows that every specs are more or less equals in terms of power.

From what I can see in the changelog, there have been multiple updates in the last 7 days, so you should be good-to-go!

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12 minutes ago, Blainie said:

From what I can see in the changelog, there have been multiple updates in the last 7 days, so you should be good-to-go!

My bad, I didn't realise changelog were specific to pages and not for all the guide. Thanks :)

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4 hours ago, Eukray said:

My bad, I didn't realise changelog were specific to pages and not for all the guide. Thanks :)

No worries :) Glad to have helped!

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On 9/13/2016 at 0:27 PM, Guest Lemmy404 said:

Do you try to keep Frozen Bomb up at all times? Don't know if i'm reading right that I should or that I should only do it when I have FoF procs ready to cast.

Save frost bomb for when you have 2 finger charges or the potential to have greater than 2 (frozen orb,frozen touch, ebon bolt). If you're casting it with 1 or 0 charges you are wasting the 10 seconds on cast time spells or global cool downs, which is lost damage potential. Also remember that flurry into ice Lance counts as a freeze.

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On 10/8/2016 at 1:19 AM, Woofikins said:

Save frost bomb for when you have 2 finger charges or the potential to have greater than 2 (frozen orb,frozen touch, ebon bolt). If you're casting it with 1 or 0 charges you are wasting the 10 seconds on cast time spells or global cool downs, which is lost damage potential. Also remember that flurry into ice Lance counts as a freeze.

Ah, that's a good point. Thanks for correcting me :)

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Guest Frost update??

Sooooo.....did they forget about updating frost?

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23 minutes ago, Guest Frost update?? said:

Sooooo.....did they forget about updating frost?

I've left a note for Furty, there should be an update coming soon! Sorry that you've had to wait for so long!

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Guest Telch

any chance of an update to this guide since hotfixes etc

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On 10/16/2016 at 10:43 AM, Guest Telch said:

any chance of an update to this guide since hotfixes etc

See comment above.

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Guest Magnus

Really, the update was just a bit to the trinket choices? This guide doesn't reflect changes which Kuni noted in the guide on MMO-Champion. Not a good service to the frost mage community. :-/

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Guest tempest

there is a typo in the description of the icicles where there is still the frostfirebolt mentioned :)

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I'm not 100% sure but I think Glacial spike is affected by Splitting ice ! Since it does now 80% dmg to secondary target, when your glacial spike can do 1M more dmg on crit, buff it by 80% on multi target is a must have. Can someone confirm this ?

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