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My question is: why all the trouble to replace Icy Touch with Chains of Ice? IT has the same range, and should scale much better with talents, and with Chillblains it even gets a snare. Am i missing something?
This is the build I'm currently using.
My spec is made to tank and do well in PvP, and it does both very well so far. The reason I don't want to use IT is because I have all the easily accessible buttons on my keyboard and mouse bound to things I really need. Mouse wheel up, middle and down, are Death Strike, Unbreakable Armor and Icebound Fortitude respectively. 1-7 are Chains of Ice, Plague Strike, Blood Strike, Obliterate, Rune Strike, Pestilence, Howling Blast. A lot of DK's like to have an RP dump, I just use my for Rune Strike which costs 25 with the Glyph to add 10% crit chain to Rune Strike, the Horn, and because I have Glyph of Death Strike having the extra RP allows it to deal more damage and heal me for more which has saved me in both instances and PvPing.
Basically I have enough buttons to push and there are no good spots for Icy Touch, and if the talents were working as they should I really wouldn't need it at all. For now I just put Icy Touch as #1 slot in instances only, I'd rather be spaming Chains of Ice in PvP and in PvE it doesn't matter all that much.