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haste one is 184 ilvl max, the crit one can be up to 226(depending on your pvp rank), the difference in int on the active is massive. Also you can have enough haste from other gear to where it's not that big of a loss. With my gear atm my stat weights are haste 1.11/ crit 1.07 / mastery 1.07 / versa...

He said 2 posts earlier he does not have shard and is looking for a replacement till he gets it.

How do you guys handle the new 2pc? I was thinking that it varies greatly with haste levels. with my 26% haste I could theoretically fit in 2 spikes without any flurries but I dont think that is worth it. So basic protocol: save 5 icicles if you have flurry then orb spike flurry and then do normal r...

why are you wearing gloves. they are terrible now. I think they are actually the worst legendary for frost atm. Sephuz is top for sure so use that. think about it like this, if you get 4 procs out of sephuz you basically have shard. Not quite but close. and in some fights you can get more so

The thing is this legendary has the same problem as the belt, but to a worse extent. In situations of 3+ targets you wont be casting nearly as many frostbolts and flurries because you will be casting blizzard and Frozen orb on cooldown. That in its self will grant you more icelance procs which furth...

That shit is insane. Especially come tomb when you'll be playing Glacial Spike.

You forget frostbolt>flurry only works because you have no global cooldown as frostbolt has a casttime. You can't cast flurry fast enough after il to shatter the initial IL

Well kinda but those increases are extremely marginal, while running NH for titanforged tierpieces will be close to mandatory for certain classes if it goes live.

Even if the pants are a few levels behind because you cant kill mythic guldan it still reduces the mastery on your gear by ALOT, which is insanely important for a frostmage. Right now I have a 925 belt from krosus which has 40% of its budget as mastery and my 905 crit haste belt with a socket is sti...

Considering how even before the tomb 4set(which greatly increases the value of brainfreeze procs) the nighthold 2set almost gave you a 10% dmg bonus it would be worth it to wear them until the combined ilvl loss of those 2 pieces was around 120 (I think it's more like 150-160 but lets be conservativ...

Clarity of thought relics will probably be the best by a huge margin in tos considering they already are on top and the TOS setbonus gives a lot of incentive to stack brainfreeze chance.

Actually even without the 6tier combo ring+wrists will be bis for frost because of the changes to thermal void which mean you will stay in Icy veins a lot less than before

Honestly I think they are trying to do to frostmages the exact opposite of what they did to firemages with the rework.
Frontload more dmg with the incredibly powerful tomb tierset and reduce sustain with the talent nerf.

Well for one you are running Mirror Image in all of your heroic logs. Also imo you should get used to playing shimmer since with frost you get to high haste levels and icefloes gets worse and worse the shorter your casttimes are. Also both of your trinkets are incredibly bad for singletarget so that...

I think tv is just gonna pull ahead more and more

I think the only thing that changes it is anomaly time. Also elisande and guldan speedups make it incredibly easy to doubleicelance. I can do it 100% of time with only the buff and icyveins and I have 20% haste with the chronomatic mythic trinket

honestly 4piece is worth it. I lose perfect stats on head and shoulder and lose a combined 20 ilvls + 1 socket and its still a dps increase for me. I have leg gloves so I use back head shoulder pants

Do you guys run bc/lw and tv/CometS for m+?

It's because gs scales better with ilvl and traits. I am currently on 908 ilvl and 54 traits and gs is ~100k higher than comet storm for me

Well you can't quite switch back and forth as the gear is very incompatible, haste being out worst stat while it is best ( after shattercap) for TV. Gs also has almost no legendary requirement scales just slightly better is way less punishing while still requiring enough planning and skill to be eng...