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10-24-2009, 05:33 PM
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Welcome to this week's Arcane Brilliance (http://www.wow.com/category/Arcane-Brilliance/), the weekly mage (http://www.wow.com/category/mage/) column that insists that tragic teleportation accident that left you with a polearm instead of an actual arm does not entitle you to a refund.
Yeah, I should have known better than to start a multi-part leveling guide (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/10/arcane-brilliance-mage-leveling-guide-11-20/) during a PTR cycle (http://www.wow.com/guide-to-patch-3-3).
Barring more huge news, we'll come back to the leveling guide next week, but this week we need to discuss the fact that Deep Freeze (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44572) is awesome. Don't believe me? Stop reading this right now. Download the PTR client (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/). Transfer your mage over. Spec Frost. Go find a training dummy. Use Deep Freeze on it. Giggle. Then come back here, because holy crap.
Here's how the spell works currently on the PTR:
Deep Freeze: This spell now deals a large amount of damage to targets permanently immune to stuns.
The base damage is 1469 to 1741. The spellpower coefficient appears to be rock solid, something in the neighborhood of 2-2.5. It doesn't currently benefit from Ice Shards (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=15047) or get an increased crit chance from Shatter (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=12983), but I expect both of those things to change before this goes live. When it hits the PTR, it'll be the single most powerful damage-dealing spell Frost mages have.
It'll be like a Pyroblast (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=42891) made of ice. Only better.
For those of you with a short attention span, here's the tl;dr version:
After patch 3.3 hits, in a raiding (http://www.wow.com/category/raiding/) spell rotation, you will use Deep Freeze every time it's off cooldown, and you will see a substantial DPS increase because of it. Read on for the longer, more text-intensive version.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The changing face of Frost (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/24/arcane-brilliance-the-changing-face-of-frost/)
Filed under: Mage (http://www.wow.com/category/mage/), Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), Classes (http://www.wow.com/category/classes/), (Mage) Arcane Brilliance (http://www.wow.com/category/arcane-brilliance/)
Arcane Brilliance: The changing face of Frost (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/24/arcane-brilliance-the-changing-face-of-frost/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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Welcome to this week's Arcane Brilliance (http://www.wow.com/category/Arcane-Brilliance/), the weekly mage (http://www.wow.com/category/mage/) column that insists that tragic teleportation accident that left you with a polearm instead of an actual arm does not entitle you to a refund.
Yeah, I should have known better than to start a multi-part leveling guide (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/10/arcane-brilliance-mage-leveling-guide-11-20/) during a PTR cycle (http://www.wow.com/guide-to-patch-3-3).
Barring more huge news, we'll come back to the leveling guide next week, but this week we need to discuss the fact that Deep Freeze (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=44572) is awesome. Don't believe me? Stop reading this right now. Download the PTR client (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/ptr/). Transfer your mage over. Spec Frost. Go find a training dummy. Use Deep Freeze on it. Giggle. Then come back here, because holy crap.
Here's how the spell works currently on the PTR:
Deep Freeze: This spell now deals a large amount of damage to targets permanently immune to stuns.
The base damage is 1469 to 1741. The spellpower coefficient appears to be rock solid, something in the neighborhood of 2-2.5. It doesn't currently benefit from Ice Shards (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=15047) or get an increased crit chance from Shatter (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=12983), but I expect both of those things to change before this goes live. When it hits the PTR, it'll be the single most powerful damage-dealing spell Frost mages have.
It'll be like a Pyroblast (http://www.wowhead.com/?spell=42891) made of ice. Only better.
For those of you with a short attention span, here's the tl;dr version:
After patch 3.3 hits, in a raiding (http://www.wow.com/category/raiding/) spell rotation, you will use Deep Freeze every time it's off cooldown, and you will see a substantial DPS increase because of it. Read on for the longer, more text-intensive version.Continue reading Arcane Brilliance: The changing face of Frost (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/24/arcane-brilliance-the-changing-face-of-frost/)
Filed under: Mage (http://www.wow.com/category/mage/), Patches (http://www.wow.com/category/patches/), Analysis / Opinion (http://www.wow.com/category/analysis-opinion/), Features (http://www.wow.com/category/features/), Classes (http://www.wow.com/category/classes/), (Mage) Arcane Brilliance (http://www.wow.com/category/arcane-brilliance/)
Arcane Brilliance: The changing face of Frost (http://www.wow.com/2009/10/24/arcane-brilliance-the-changing-face-of-frost/) originally appeared on WoW.com (http://www.wow.com) on Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/).
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