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3.2 Frost Tanking?
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Kurtosis
The only Frost-specific nerf I see so far on wowhead's 3.2 patch notes is to FS, but that is irrelevant if you're expertise-capped. Otherwise, the nerfs to IBF, FP, and Toughness are nerfs to all DK tank specs.
Frost is also getting two indirect buffs:
1. doubling of Runic Power generation from Scent of Blood
2. reduction of Blood of the North to 3 talent points, freeing up 2 more points.
Finally, the Blood Strike buff benefits all 3 main specs, and I currently use BS anyway on my single target rotations.
I'm currently a Frost tank, my current build is
15/51/5
, and am considering staying Frost in 3.2, with a similar
15/51/5
build.
Or is Blood or UH the new undisputed tank build?
Post by
Eleazer
FS is also cut in half in terms of dps. It's a serious nerf. just brutal in terms of irritating dps nerfs, for tanking it's not a big deal, because rune strike is your major use anyways.
Post by
Kurtosis
The patch notes say FS weapon dmg bonus reduced to 55% from 60%. Are you saying that that nerf, combined with the loss dodge/parry immunity, reduces FS dmg by 50%?
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Post by
Kurtosis
is SoB 3/3 really needed?
My prior build was 2/3 SoB + Glyph of Frost Strike (in place of Glyph of Unbreakable Armor), and it was fine then.
However, as soon as I saw the 3.2 patch notes that IBF is getting its cd doubled, I figured I might be relying on UA more in 3.2, may as well start getting used to it now, and it needs all the buffing it can get.
So I replaced FS glyph w/ UA, but that left me feeling RP starved, so changed spec to 3/3 SoB. Much better now, though I do miss Deathchill. Pulling with a crit HB every ~2 out of 3 pulls is nice. I'm actually looking forward to being able to get that back in 3.2.
It sounds like the difference in our play styles is that I pretty much spam both FS and RS (macro'd to all attacks except FS) whenever they're up, whereas you only spam RS. I'm guessing that's why I tend to always feel RP starved, and you don't. I'll try tanking without spamming FS, see how well I hold aggro without it.
Post by
Kurtosis
However for AOE or OT'ing I will have to rely more now on my Unholy build,
Even with the change to Unholy Blight making it a single-target instead of AoE ability in 3.2? It's my impression from the patch notes that Frost will be the AoE tank build in 3.2 - HB + BB + DnD.
I don't think that the nerfs to FS are going to be as devastating as a majority of the community thinks, it is however going to seperate those who really understand their class and spec from those who have been more reliant on gear to overcompensate.
True. The name of the game is adapt, improvise, overcome. And don't be too wedded to any particular tree. Though I do love Frost tanking, I leveled 55-80 UH, and Blood is my current daily/farming/utility off-spec. Such good talent design, hard to dislike any build.
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