Frost Mage Review of Spellslinger Hero Talents - Shatter Enemies to Splinters

Live Publié 07/04/2024 à 14:08 par Dorovon

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Frost Mage First Impressions: Spellslinger Hero Talents many new Hero Talent Tree previewsFroid de l'hiver

Developer's Note: Spellslinger Splinters are themed and tuned based on your active Specialization. Arcane's Splinters are named Arcane Splinters and deal moderate Arcane school damage. Frost's Splinters are named Frost Splinters and deal light Frost school damage. Those specifics have been omitted from this mockup for the sake of tooltip readability, as both specs' Splinters serve the same purpose.

Things I Like

Potential Concerns

Keystone: Splintering SorceryFroid de l'hiver

Augury Abounds instantly provides 8 Splinters when you use Veines glaciales and enhances Splintering Sorcery to generate additional Splinters while Veines glaciales is active.

Splintering Orbs should consistently generate 8 Splinters per cast of Orbe gelé, but generates them faster in AoE situations.

Shifting Shards fires 8 Splinters at random targets while you channel Puissance fluctuante.

Capstone: SplinterstormFroid de l'hiverJavelot de glaceFroid de l'hiverBlizzardMange-glaceChoice NodesVélocité temporelleAltérer le tempsDéplacementÉnergie déviéeBarrière de glaceBarrière de masseImage miroirRéduplicationNova de glaceEarly Simulations

Éclair de givre is cast much less often.

Rafale is cast less frequently, mainly because the reduced number of Éclair de givre casts results in fewer Gel mental procs.

Javelot de glace is cast many more times.

Nova de glace is usually worth casting in single target situations with maximum stacks of Unerring Proficiency, while it was only used to help with movement before.

Javelot de glaceFroid de l'hiverÉclair de givreRéaction en chaîneNova de glaceRéaction en chaîneJavelot de glaceNova de glaceÉclair de givreToucher geléFracture profondeGlace glissanteVents givrantsFroid de l'hiverDoigts de givreVague hivernaleVents givrantsMaîtrise : GlaçonsFracasserFracasserPossible Design Issues to Keep an Eye On

The Froid de l'hiver procs from Splinterstorm will feel pretty random and hard to play around for most players when they first start using it despite triggering in a deterministic and predictable way. This will be especially true for players not using addons to keep track of the number of Embedded Splinters that are active. Ideally, it should be possible to play around Splinterstorm without knowing that it is about to proc in advance by ensuring that it has a clear visual design and sufficient delay before the Froid de l'hiver activates. For players who do wish to use an addon, it would also be nice to have a simple tracking buff on the Mage to show the number of active Embedded Splinters and a reliable event for when Splinterstorm triggers.

While it's great that Splinterstorm will alter the rotation, early simulations suggest that Frost Mages will be triggering this at least 9 times per minute on average, resulting in so many Froid de l'hiver procs that it will be difficult to avoid overlapping all of those procs with the debuffs applied by Rafale while also keeping Rafale on cooldown. However, the amount of mobility gained due to being able to cast Javelot de glace more often will likely be enjoyed by many Frost Mages.

Before unlocking the capstone, the tree is not really interesting. The only major gameplay-altering part of Spellslinger is the extra Froid de l'hiver uptime gained from Splinterstorm. However, this isn't a huge problem because most players will level from 70 to 80 relatively quickly and while leveling most enemies will not spend much time at high stacks of Embedded Splinter.

The tree has a lot of unavoidable choices that can deal damage to targets outside of the player's control. The random targets from Shifting Shards should be okay as long as it cannot pull targets you aren't in combat with and cannot target enemies under breakable crowd control effects, but talents like Controlled Instincts and Spellfrost Teachings provide no option to opt out for situations where accidentally hitting a nearby target is an issue. This is mainly problematic in PvP, where a crowd controlled player may be right next to the player you are trying to kill. Unfortunately, this may be tricky to solve without causing other issues because these nodes contribute to the tree's nicely tuned scaling with the number of targets you are fighting.

Unerring Proficiency may not provide enough bonus damage to make Nova de glace worth pressing in all cases even at maximum stacks of the buff, especially because it does not scale with Maîtrise : Glaçons or generate procs like Gel mental.

Closing ThoughtsFroid de l'hiverAltered TimeSimulationCraftBDGSplintering SorcerySplinterSplintersEmbedded SplinterEmbedded SplintersAugury AboundsControlled InstinctsSplintering OrbsSlippery SlingingLook AgainReactive BarrierPhantasmal ImageVolatile MagicUnerring ProficiencyShifting ShardsSpellfrost TeachingsForce of WillSplinterstormImbued Warding

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