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Frost Mage 9.2 Tier Set and Legendary Tuning - Guide Writer Thoughts on Last Week's Build 41359
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Preheat
发表于
2021/12/14,06:45
In last week's PTR build, there were changes for the
Frost Mage's tier set bonus
! In this article, Preheat gives his thoughts and opinions on the recent changes.
Frost Mage Tier Set Tuning for Build 41359
(2-set) While Icy Veins is active Your spells have a 25% chance to call down a Comet Storm on your target enemy. This effect cannot occur more than once every 3020 sec.
Preheat
, our Frost Mage guide writer, has given their thoughts on the above changes!
In the latest pass of updates in 9.2 Frost Mages have had their Frost tier updated:
2p:
冰霜风暴
Your spells have a 25% chance to call down a
彗星风暴
on your target enemy. This effect cannot occur more than once every 20 sec.
On paper, the two main takeaways on this update to the tier set are that the bonus is no longer tied to
冰冷血脉
and also the internal cooldown is now 20 seconds which means roughly 3 procs per minute instead of 2. This is a fantastic change, but it's not all. The interaction between
深冬之寒
and
彗星风暴
was also fixed so
彗星风暴
is affected by
深冬之寒
while
not consuming it
.
This changes the ideal playstyle a bit:
If Comet Storm is talented, you will want to hold your castable
彗星风暴
until
深冬之寒
is active
If there is one charge of
深冬之寒
remaining on the target and your 2p tier (
冰霜风暴
) is triggered, cast a
寒冰箭
if it would result in additional Comet Storm projectiles benefitting from Shatter.
This is still early on, but the
Mage theorycrafting community over at Altered Time
has worked out that doing both results 2.29% dps gain.
Dorovon
of BDGG has provided us with this screenshot.
The only outstanding issue with this bonus is that
彗星风暴
will sometimes miss a moving target. This means the damage of
彗星风暴
and the damage increase from
冰霜风暴
both miss. Since this triggers roughly every 20 seconds, you may gain less damage from this tier bonus on fights where the boss is frequently moved.
Aside for missing due to boss movement, this means all of the issues we discussed in the first batch of feedback have been resolved. Additionally, with
彗星风暴
now working for this bonus and with it's new interaction with
深冬之寒
, there are gains to be had in playing around your
深冬之寒
applications which makes the rotation more engaging and interactive. This change also boosts
彗星风暴
as a talent, giving us more variety. I couldn't be happier about how quickly the issues with this tier set were fixed.
In 9.2 Frost Mages get
彗星风暴
centric bonuses:
2 p:
冰霜风暴
While Icy Veins is active your spells have a 25% chance to call down a Comet Storm on your target enemy. This effect cannot occur more than once every 30 sec.
4 p:
冰霜风暴
Enemies hit by Comet Storm take 2% increased damage from your Frost Spells, up to 10% for 8 sec.
Although this set bonus might seem good at a glance, the current implementation of
彗星风暴
will cause issues for it, due to
彗星风暴
consuming
深冬之寒
stacks on the target. Assuming that nothing is changed, this bonus will only account for roughly a 5% damage increase for the 2 and 4 sets combined. This is also assuming you have a superhuman reaction-time to seeing
彗星风暴
to avoid munching (losing stacks of the debuff without getting their benefit)
冰枪术
s while the
深冬之寒
debuff is active during a proc.
Assuming that this oversight is fixed and
深冬之寒
is no longer consumed by
彗星风暴
, we can expect around an
8-9% gain
in single target.
This is assuming
彗星风暴
still benefits from
深冬之寒
without consuming it.
Even so, this is still low but much closer to what I would expect from a tier bonus. In 5 target AoE this jumps up to around a
13% increase
, further reinforcing Frost's role as an AoE specialist. That being said, I really don't think that tying this bonus to
冰冷血脉
uptime is a good idea since it further reinforces Frost's weaknesses with forced downtime in fights or other disruptions like having to stop damage. The effect is weak enough to stand on its own. This is a good time to point out that changing
彗星风暴
to no longer munch
深冬之寒
would result in more talent variety in the 45 row, as it would overtake
碎冰
in single target, even without this set bonus.
Overall, this set bonus is high risk, low reward. It is poorly tuned, disrupts normal gameplay due to it consuming
深冬之寒
procs, and gets much worse with poor
冰冷血脉
uptime due to forced downtime in fights. Tying it to
冰冷血脉
makes little sense and I hope it is reevaluated along with
彗星风暴
深冬之寒
interactions.
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