I think it is obvious to everyone that all kinds of absorbing effects like Ice Barrier and Power Word: Shield lost in value due to the high increase of damage for all classes and specs. I would recommend increasing their spell power coefficient to bring them back to their original value. E.g. Power Word: Shield absorbs 391 damage currently. I see shaman tanks with over 5000 health in BGs and spells doing over 1500 damage. So where is the value of a shield? Also, some runes are not being used because of the low value of shields.
Pushback is another thing I recognized. The number of abilities increased a lot. In addition, dual-wielding and attack speed buffs are things we see more often now. I would also like to see some adjustments on this to bring pushbacks back to classic values. I think this got a little out of control with all the instant hits and spells with very short cooldowns.
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Yeah this is one of the reasons frost spec is bad atm (damage is another, as is fingers of frost only proccing with frostbite - lol)
ice barrier sucks in SOD where it’s meant to be a 31 point talent and one of the biggest assets for frost mage
Frost is the best pvp spec what the hell are you talking about. Arcane can oneshot, but frankly any spec can 1shot with arcane surge, gl casting in the meantime with 30yd range. Fire does damage but it can die by getting sneezed on. Frost can reliably 1v2 certain classes without using a single CD. Ice barrier is still better than no barrier and it really helps.
Also protip, you don’t need FoF if you have frostbite so w/e. Get the 15% passive crit it makes a huge difference. I agree it is stupid that both share a proc but its also w/e atm
i’ve yet to try it with burnout, which belt rune would you take?
i still prefer arcane or fire though 
Missile barrage. Next phase we can experiment with frostfire bolt and hot streak. You could go elementalist with frostfire bolt now and kill people in a frostfire fireblast ignite shatter but its more of a meme and not very practical