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Q: Is the Frost Mage ever going to be competitive in PVE? (I know it is within about 10% but it's still the lowest DPS spec in the game at the moment)
A: Part of why we are changing talents in 5.0 is to let every spec have a shot at getting good utility. This means we can abandon the current (and tired) model where some specs (Frost, Subtlety especially) have to trade off dps because they have good control / survivability / escape. The biggest difference between Frost, Fire and Arcane in 5.0 will be which spells (including procs and other mechanics) you use to do damage.
A: Part of why we are changing talents in 5.0 is to let every spec have a shot at getting good utility. This means we can abandon the current (and tired) model where some specs (Frost, Subtlety especially) have to trade off dps because they have good control / survivability / escape. The biggest difference between Frost, Fire and Arcane in 5.0 will be which spells (including procs and other mechanics) you use to do damage.
From the class Q&A going on currently. I'm very excited about this personally. Fire will probably still be RNG based, based on their comments on another question about Fire. But I really like that they're going to try and make every class/spec viable. Of course they didn't come right out and say that it will be for PvE and PvP, but they kinda implied it.
I just hope they don't tinker with Frost rotation too much. My only complaint is that Brain Freeze doesn't proc enough. Although I will say, that I've noticed my dps increasing by about 2k since I got my 4 piece. that was just on Domo though. I'll be able to better judge on Friday when I get to do an entire raid with my mage.
teehee
Edited, Nov 10th 2011 1:22pm by Xsarus
