Can Winter's chill get the scorch treatment

#0 - March 24, 2009, 4:01 a.m.

Could frost get the same treatment, I enjoy pve as frost - even if the damage is on the weak side. I might not top the damage meters but I do well enough to get the job done. The scorch buff 3/6/9% is basically to help fire mage pvp (who use scorch as a main nuke of sorts). Adding something to WC like "also increases your crit with frost spells by (2/4/6)%" would help close the growing gap between frost pve and other mage specs. Frostfire mages would not have this because it would be too far up in the tree, and it would give us not much more real crit % than we had before the nerf.

Frosts pvp crit % without WG and shatters is a tad low. Most of the dmg is from combos on frozen targets and/or deep freeze , I don't see this making them any OP above what they are currently in the game.

Ghostcrawler

#11 - March 24, 2009, 4:32 a.m.

The logic was that Frost mages get the debuff from casting what they are normally going to cast. Fire mages don't necessarily want to cast Scorch.

Ghostcrawler

#74 - March 24, 2009, 8:42 p.m.

I think we are likely to make the following changes:

Improved Scorch: In addition to the stacking crit debuff, will improve your critical strike chance with Fireball, Scorch or Frostfire Bolt by 1/2/3%.

Winter's Chill: In addition to the stacking crit debuff, will improve your critical strike chance with Frostbolt (possibly all Frost) by 1/2/3%.

Standard "no promises" caveat applies.

Ghostcrawler

#98 - March 25, 2009, 9:44 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Dear GC,

You stated that "Improved Scorch: In addition to the stacking crit debuff, will improve your critical strike chance with Fireball, Scorch or Frostfire Bolt by 1/2/3%"

Will this apply to all people who has the improved scorch talent? or do you actually have to cast scorch to get extra bonus? If the latter is the case, how will you manage multiple people casting scorch?

It's just a passive bonus. You gain the 1/2/3% crit even if neither you nor anyone casts Scorch.

Increases your chance to critically hit with Scorch, Fireball and Frostfire Bolt by an additional 1/2/3% and your damaging Scorch spells have a 33/66/100% chance to cause your target to be vulnerable to spell damage, increasing spell critical strike chance against that target by 1 billion and lasts 20 hours. Stacks up to 5 times.