Comments on: PTR Patch 3.3 Testing: Glyph of Eternal Water

By: Guide to Frost PvE: Glyphs – Frosty Magecraft | Spicytuna

Guide to Frost PvE: Glyphs – Frosty Magecraft | Spicytuna — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:42:16 +0000

[...] Patch 3.3 – Glyph of Eternal Water [...]

By: Tuna

Tuna — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:40:30 +0000

@ Starkillah

I’ve always liked Frost’s playstyle, and with the new Deep Freeze and Water Elemental changes, it is just going to make the playstyle even more fun for me.

The Deep Freeze part of the rotation is very similar to how Fire plays. Except on proc you have to be on your toes to sneak a DF in for that 3rd “Ghost Charge”, while keeping an eye on DF’s cooldown at the same time. For Fire, you just hit Pyroblast everytime Hotstreak procs. Refreshing Scorch was another thing you had to do, but I’ve never liked being on Scorch duty.

Keeping an eye on Squirtle’s well being was a challenge before, but now have gotten easier thanks to the AoE damage change.

@ Tuggernuts

Haha nice name, I just watched Tropic Thunder again not too long ago.

Yep, having Ice Barrier and Frost Ward on you while all this raid wide Frost damage is going on will keep you alive better, and make it easier on your healers.

@ Jennerz

Nope, Puddles is mine! That entire list is mine! You must pay a fee to use any of those names. Sorry, I called them first. /pat

@ Jorani

You are correct! If your pet dies at anytime, chances are your cooldown should be up to resummon him again. Remember though, he would have lost all his buffs. So try to keep him alive to the best of your ability to keep him at full strengths at all time.

By: Jorani

Jorani — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:28:00 +0000

About the man. Worst case squirtles mana only has to last 3 mins before you can resummon him anyway. food for thought.

Cheers

By: Jennerz

Jennerz — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:53:04 +0000

OMG I am totally stealing Puddles!!! MINE I called it!

By: Tuggernuts

Tuggernuts — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:22:19 +0000

With the next patch coming out with the new raid instance, i can see frost becoming viable with all the raid damage all the bosses are doing. Ive alwaysed liked learning fights as frost since icebarrier and the 2 iceblocks really come in handy.

By: Starkillah

Starkillah — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:40:29 +0000

How do you like the play style? So far it looks to be the same as Fire or Arcane. Nuke til proc then use bigger nuke. At least with Arcane you can manage your mana with Arcane Blast. Blizz shoulda made Frost a little bit more different IMO.

By: JosePH D.

JosePH D. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:33:40 +0000

Very good information! You’ve answered pretty much all questions I’ve had when I found out about the permanent Water Elemental on MMO-Champion. I’m looking forward to the next patch.

I think I read somewhere on the Blizzard forums (maybe it was one of the Blues Tracker) about making pets inherit 100% of the owner’s Resilience. I’m not 100% sure though, and I can’t seem to find the post at the moment.

I’ve always been a min/max kind of player when it comes to raids, and have always brought the spec which brings the most DPS. I am liking Blizzard’s direction of trying to give us 3 different options when it comes to PvE, and making a somewhat attempt to do the same for PvP.

Not sure if Frost has finally caught up within a good % of Arcane or Fire yet- we’ll have to see the new Frost spec in a Raid environment to make a good comparison.