I'm confused and heard different things on the boards. Does any crit break frost nova? Or does any crit from ice lance break frost nova? If they nerfed frost nova shatter is pointless now.


Edit: How is Telari first I'm the real first.
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But now we can't put frostbolts and ice lance together. That was fun. You took the fun away. :(

Edit: Inadvertently first. Muahaha.

Pls let me first!

That's garbage. Pure garbage. I don't know where to start, so I will just...

/sigh

Fire always broke nova and now any crit breaks nova. Glad it is still a 25s cooldown.

Furthermore it makes shatter less worth taking if the only way you are going to crit is going to be once every 25s.

It still amazes me to date how the Devs always respond to mages for dealing too much dmg; yet never EVER fix anything wrong with the class but continually nerf.

thank you for your response, but you nerfed EVERY mage out there. Keep it coming,

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I don't see how it makes Shatter useless, .

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Play a Mage.

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you can't two-shot somebody with a zero-second cooldown.

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bc we could before? I mean all locks have a standard 11k HP now and Feral druids push 17k. Does your icelance crit for 5k?

With how much HP people have now, how can we 2 shot people with ice lance crits? Maybe if they were under 50% health.

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I don't see how it makes Shatter useless, as you are still gaining higher chance of a crit, you just can't two-shot somebody with a zero second cooldown attack.

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I can't two-shot with Ice Lance as is. How do you address the concern that, yes, Fire should have more damage potential than Frost, but Frost's damage potential may simply be too small if we can't get in two (don't worry about 3+ -- most of us agree that's edging into overpowered territory) attacks on a frozen target? I'm not saying it's the end of the world; I'm just concerned about the damage potential of non-crazily-geared mages.

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The change affects Frost Nova. Frozen targets were never intended to be frozen after a critical. However, the usage of Ice Lance made it very noticable that being frozen was persisting through being crit, whereas normal damage had a chance to break the state. By insuring that a crit will break the frozen state, back to back crits from Ice Lance won't be occurring and such spikes in damage disappear.

I don't see how it makes Shatter useless, as you are still gaining higher chance of a crit, you just can't two-shot somebody with a zero second cooldown attack.

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so you basicly just destroyed my elementalist build... the whole point of me using this build was how unlikly Fn would break on a scorch crit (wich isnt that much dmg and has a casttime) and i would be paired with a frostmage who would get frostbite procs.. way to ruin what you tried to make good awhile back.. but the elementalists get shafted cause ignite doesnt work right AND Fn is on deminishing returns AND now i can only get 1 crit out of a nova.. the whole idea about a mage is geting your opponent in the situation you want them to be in and the more you nerf it the lesss likely we can achive this or do any dmg..

too sum it all up
why cant you just make ice lance break the nova weather it crits or not

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so you basicly just destroyed my elementalist build... the whole point of me using this build was how unlikly Fn would break on a scorch crit (wich isnt that much dmg and has a casttime) and i would be paired with a frostmage who would get frostbite procs.. way to ruin what you tried to make good awhile back.. but the elementalists get shafted cause ignite doesnt work right AND Fn is on deminishing returns AND now i can only get 1 crit out of a nova.. the whole idea about a mage is geting your opponent in the situation you want them to be in and the more you nerf it the lesss likely we can achive this or do any dmg..

too sum it all up
why cant you just make ice lance break the nova weather it crits or not

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srry i posted on my alt

Shaman got it worse, but this sucks, although I do think icelance spam was pretty lame, a 3 second CD would have been better.... O_o

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The change affects Frost Nova. Frozen targets were never intended to be frozen after a critical. However, the usage of Ice Lance made it very noticable that being frozen was persisting through being crit, whereas normal damage had a chance to break the state. By insuring that a crit will break the frozen state, back to back crits from Ice Lance won't be occurring and such spikes in damage disappear.

I don't see how it makes Shatter useless, as you are still gaining higher chance of a crit, you just can't two-shot somebody with a zero second cooldown attack.

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It makes shatter useless because we can just as easily cast 2 frostbolts while mobs are still novad, then just cast one frostbolt thats a crit and have frost nova break.

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Play a Mage.



bc we could before? I mean all locks have a standard 11k HP now and Feral druids push 17k. Does your icelance crit for 5k?

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This is possibly the most amazing amount of truth I've ever seen in a quote, ever.

Way to cater to the QQ' ers.

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Q u o t e:
The change affects Frost Nova. Frozen targets were never intended to be frozen after a critical. However, the usage of Ice Lance made it very noticable that being frozen was persisting through being crit, whereas normal damage had a chance to break the state. By insuring that a crit will break the frozen state, back to back crits from Ice Lance won't be occurring and such spikes in damage disappear.

I don't see how it makes Shatter useless, as you are still gaining higher chance of a crit, you just can't two-shot somebody with a zero second cooldown attack.

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GG frost hello fire.