Winter's Reach Azerite Trait
Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2018 1:07 am
Hello my fellow frost mages!
First time poster - been a lurker up until this point so here goes.
I've been wondering about the Winter's Reach Azerite trait:
"Winter's Reach: grants you a 30% chance when consuming Brain Freeze to gain a buff that will increase the damage of your next hard-cast Flurry."
I've got this trait and realised I haven't been utilising it but information seems to be a bit sparse on whether it's viable or not..
Icy Veins says this:
"Winter's Reach, changes the rotation, and given Winter's Reach should be avoided",
But I don't really understand what that means, is it that the Azerite trait should be avoided all together? I'm assuming IV doesn't mean select it and then ignore the buff because that's just a waste of a trait (it's not really a passive passive if you know what I mean; provides a buff that changes rotation). Is the change in rotation just not worth enough? If it is worth is it a bit difficult to manage like trying to min-max Incanter's Flow?
Played around with it a bit in the class hall, it's quite a big dps increase from a normal flurry hardcast, or even a proc'd flurry hardcast
Normal: 6K
Brain Freeze Proc: 14K
Winters Reach: 22K
I don't suppose anyone has any ideas on this? Or has done the maths? Any info would be appreciated.
Many Thanks & Happy Mageing,
Phear
First time poster - been a lurker up until this point so here goes.
I've been wondering about the Winter's Reach Azerite trait:
"Winter's Reach: grants you a 30% chance when consuming Brain Freeze to gain a buff that will increase the damage of your next hard-cast Flurry."
I've got this trait and realised I haven't been utilising it but information seems to be a bit sparse on whether it's viable or not..
Icy Veins says this:
"Winter's Reach, changes the rotation, and given Winter's Reach should be avoided",
But I don't really understand what that means, is it that the Azerite trait should be avoided all together? I'm assuming IV doesn't mean select it and then ignore the buff because that's just a waste of a trait (it's not really a passive passive if you know what I mean; provides a buff that changes rotation). Is the change in rotation just not worth enough? If it is worth is it a bit difficult to manage like trying to min-max Incanter's Flow?
Played around with it a bit in the class hall, it's quite a big dps increase from a normal flurry hardcast, or even a proc'd flurry hardcast
Normal: 6K
Brain Freeze Proc: 14K
Winters Reach: 22K
I don't suppose anyone has any ideas on this? Or has done the maths? Any info would be appreciated.
Many Thanks & Happy Mageing,
Phear