#0 - Feb. 15, 2010, 12:24 p.m.
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I've seen several players post about the Icy Talons issue, but haven't seen a blue post on the matter yet. If there is indeed a blue post, I apologize in advance for starting up a conversation that's already been had.
The issue I'm talking about is about Icy Talons and Glyph of Disease. This glyph got nerfed in 3.3, but I do understand why- the AP values from procs constantly being refreshed were too high.
What I don't understand however is why Icy Talons does not refresh when Pestilence is used with this glyph.
The glyph tooltip reads: "Your Pestilence ability now refreshes disease durations on your primary target back to their maximum duration"
The Icy Talons tooltip reads: "You leech heat from victims of your Frost Fever, so that when their melee attack speed is reduced, yours increases by x% for the next 20 seconds".
So, if Frost Fever is constantly active on a target using this glyph, shouldn't Icy Talons also be active?
The reason this bothers me is because of serious drain on Frost single target DPS that this bug (if it is a bug) puts. On AoE situations, Icy Talons will refresh instantly since the disease is being spread to new targets. If you have Glyph of Howling Blast active, it will also refresh the buff because the ability now infects the target with Frost Fever.
Frost DKs main single target damage ability for 3.3 is Obliterate. We use Blood of the North to turn our Blood Runes into Death Runes to eventually allow us to launch 3 Obliterates in succession.
Unfortunately, if we do this, we lose the Icy Talons buff and have to reapply diseases again to keep it (using just one disease isn't viable since Obliterate works off percentages and the number of diseases present).
So Blizz developers- what are your thoughts? Intentional or not?
Speaking as someone who loved Frost in 3.1 and then detested it in 3.2 onwards, I'd like to see it redeemed somewhat. While I may not like DW that much, I can work with it. Not having a constant buff/debuff like Blood (Abomination's Might) and Unholy (Ebon Plague) however, is killing this tree.
I'm not whining or complaining about the changes made to DKs- I understand that you want to balance us out. However the current incarnation of Frost leaves much to be desired. If this is indeed a bug, could I request it be fixed?
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Since this post I've gone Unholy (since it is clearly superior in both AoE and single target DPS as of 3.3), but still remember Frost fondly. I'm also pretty sure there are many, many Frost DKs out there that would breathe a huge sigh of relief if their raid utility was brought back.
