Frost Mage Review of Frostfire Hero Talents - Fantastic Aesthetic But Proc Rate & AoE Concerns
13.02.2024 - 23:31
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This past week, Blizzard revealed another round of Hero Talent Trees in a Sneak Peak at the upcoming War Within system. Our Frost Mage guide writer, Dorovon, offers an early review of the Frostfire Mage Hero Talents that have an exceptional aesthetic and offer some intriguing gameplay changes but pose some concerns for AoE.
Hero Talents are an extension of the Talent system designed to explore class fantasy with a third talent tree, separate from your class and specialization. Blizzard has revealed an early preview of Hero Talents coming in the next expansion, The War Within.
The War Within Hero Talents Overview
Our Guide Writers have provided initial first impressions on the Hero Talent Trees revealed so far for the War Within. Check out all of our released opinion articles below.
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Frost Mage First Impressions: Frostfire Hero Talents
Blizzard recently revealed several new Hero Talent Tree previews, which includes the Frostfire tree that will be shared by Fire and Frost Mages in The War Within. While this initial Frostfire tree is not perfect, overall I have a positive view of it, especially in terms of how it will thematically feel to play as a Frostfire Mage.
Note: The icons for each talent are placeholders.
Things I Like Potential Concerns
Keystone: Frostfire Mastery
The core gameplay created by the Frostfire tree is focused around the tree's keystone:. provides powerful stacking stat bonuses as you cast Fire and Frost spells. Additionally, and provide an extra incentive to reliably reach maximum stacks of both elements every 12-second cycle of the buff. For Frost Mages, stacks should generally be easy to obtain because almost any damaging spell you can cast will provide a stack. Conversely, most of the spells a Frost Mage casts do not generate and most of those stacks will come from and procs.
While the stat bonuses from are nice, they shouldn't noticeably affect gameplay very much. The main aspect of that will affect gameplay are and. triggering Brain Freeze in particular is very strong and puts a lot of emphasis on consistently reaching maximum stacks of during every 12-second cycle of the buff. This is likely to have three main effects:
- The value of Haste as a stat will increase because it will make it easier to consistently reach maximum stacks of .
- There are likely to be cases where casting Fire Blast to gain a stack will allow you to reach maximum stacks of in
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