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Shatter: No longer increases crit chance against Frozen targets. Now increases damage by 5/10/15% against Frozen targets.
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Shatter: No longer increases crit chance against Frozen targets. Now increases damage by 5/10/15% against Frozen targets.
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We need a lot more than that.
*We either needs tools to keep it alive in PvP (Siphon Life-ish), or the cooldown needs to be reduced to something closer to an Unholy Death Knight's ghoul.
*We need some sort of mana recovery option for the pet
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In PvP, I believe the concern is that making the elemental permanent makes it less available, not more available, because of the new cooldown scheme. It can be killed just as quickly, but now it takes longer to call it up again.
In PvE, the issue is that we have to make the raid wait after a wipe until the cooldown is back up.
In solo/quest mode, the issue is that if we have no way to heal the elemental, we have to stand around waiting for a while before continuing our questing.
The answer is, I think, either to use the current cooldown scheme or the Ghoul cooldown scheme, and to add an out-of-combat heal. This should allow the elemental to behave in PvP much as it does now, and remove the inconvenience factors in PvE and solo/quest play.
ETA: Naturally, we expect to be balanced around its permanance. We don't expect it to be free extra DPS.
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'Permanent is longer than 45 seconds so this must be a buff' is incredibly short sighted.
When we're leveling and my Water Elemental drops down to 10% health for whatever reason, what do you expect us to do - dismiss it and wait 2-3 minutes to summon a new one? That makes little sense for a permanent pet - you're essentially giving us the functionality of a temporary pet, but the duration of a permanent one.
At present, people don't bother killing the Elemental in PvP because PvP specced Mages have an elemental duration of 50 seconds. The time spent killing it isn't worth it because it'll die on its own soon anyway, and you will only get hit by a maximum of two pet freezes. If people know that they can kill it early and not eat any pet freezes for 2-3 minutes, they will. Many games where the opponent isn't expecting a quick kill will include some swaps to the Water Elemental. It makes sense to give us the tools to deal with that, or balance us around the assumption that pet uptime will be low. If the latter... why is it permanent in the first place?
If you want to make us a pet spec, make us a pet spec and let us actually support our pet. Frankly I like the old model a lot more, because we don't have any keybinds to spare and I'd rather rely on my healers to keep my WE alive (or just let it die) than to rely on a pet that is easily killed, and have no way of healing it back up on my own. If things go live as-is, I'd expect total pet uptime to be lower in arenas than it is now.
edit: It is also important to note that the current Water Elemental duration synergizes pretty well with Cold Snap. By the time you summon a pet, use both freezes, use a DF or two, maybe Ice Block a CC or if you're getting killed... you've used most or all of your frost cooldowns and you can coldsnap a new set, including a second pet. If my pet gets targeted early and killed, which is likely if you make it permanent but give us no tools to keep it alive, I'm in the uncomfortable position of having no pet but not wanting to snap a new one. Obviously that can happen even if it has a 45 second duration, but it tends not to because the risk:reward ratio for killing a temporary pet just isn't very good.
Maybe you could shed some light in to why you made the pet permanent, especially since you seem to be against the idea of giving us tools that other permanent pet specs/classes have.
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If you feel subspec arcane to be an equal option, that's not really the point I'm worried about. If it really does turn out to be as viable as picking up pushback resistance+blazing speed+Imp CS, arcane deserves the same argument.
Each class shouldn't just have 1 "golden boy" pvp spec that's far and away the best for pvp, then Blizzard just takes that spec and gives it the best of the other specs available to subspec. No one will ever look at fire seriously (or arcane to satisfy your argument) if frost just gets the perks of fire w/o fire getting anything new.
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...Hopefully this means we can make optional choices in our last 10 points too, not just our first 31.
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One of the biggest benefits of Shattered Barrier is that it procs while silenced, stunned, etc.
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Yeah, but how much is this really going to help in a raid environment? If we're taking enough damage while feared/stunned/etc that this talent really helps keep us alive, isn't the encounter going to be brutal beyond hope for specs that don't have such abilities? And if we're not taking that much damage, is the talent valuable? Especially considering we're trading shield uptime before the event for the proc, since we need to save the cooldown.
I could be wrong, but it strikes me as the sort of thing that might be useful in one fight out of ten, vs three or four like, e.g., Improved Blink.
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