Frost mage is the new BfA Demon Hunter

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Very skillfull playstyle, i must admit. :slight_smile:

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“Just line it bro.”

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That’s a lot of mental gymnastics to avoid saying destro lock

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Well fair enough. Destro was just as braindead. :rofl:

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Nice transmog :eyes:

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Let me guess
 he cast Death Borune, Ice Form and Rune of Power and you didn’t realise thats what it can do and tanked 2 Frost bolts?

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imagine if warlocks weren’t one of if not the most disruptive hard counters to frost mage, you’d have had a chance :frowning:

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Yeah that makes it totally fine obviously. People are crying over Deathbolt while it requires a minute of setup but obviously pressing your covenant ability + 2 other cds and then proceed to do 8k dps with literally spamming one button is completely ok. :roll_eyes:

Just imagine that would matter in any way in terms of questioning the design of necro frost mage. :frowning:

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This is actually a legit solution, for a change!

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Sorry, where did I say this was okay? It is kind of ironic though, it’s basically what a Destro does. But Frost can only do it once every 3 mins and you can kick and LoS the Frost bolts. even though you might think that’s a meme, you shouldn’t be standing out in the middle of the map against other casters the entire game anyway. What did other players do against the Destro aids in BFA? they ran until it was over, you can do the same to the Mage since it’s all hard casts. It’s still aids though regardless, with the perma slows.

While we’re on the topic of damage, do me a favour please? give me a run down of Affli’s “burst” would you? seems like they just get DoT’s out then Dark Soul and Life Drain? am I missing something? Haven’t played much this season to know much about it.

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to be fair frostmage only really works in MLX. If you train a frostmage he literally does zero dmg.

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Sure. It’s Corruption>Agony>UA (cast)>wait for 5 shards which only proc randomly from Agony ticks>Rapid Contagion>wait for 1 shard to proc>Soul Rot (cast)>Phantom Singularity>Dark Soul>Summon Darkglare>Deatbolt. Rinse repeat if the target didn’t die. However you do a lot of pressure with the dots and Drain Life and all that stuff too and i already did kill people without Deathbolt simply by rotting and kicking in the right moment.

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I had a double affli lock comp in 3s almost delete both me and my priest last night. What do you recommend kicking to disrupt it the most? I remember you mentioning Soul Rot?

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Yes, still Soul Rot. You can ofc kick him on shadow too but Soul Rot counters the burst. It’s kind of a warning signal. He tries to cast Soul Rot he has a potential Deathbolt go and without Soul Rot Deathbolt ist rather unlikely to kill anything. Also on top of this you deny him the haste from Dreamweaver. If you stall long enough Rapid Contagion will eventually run out and the go is basically over. You might want to track that with some WA or anything.

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Alright, thank you. Appreciate the insight into that.

I’ve been wasting CS on UA’s outside of go’s
 won’t be kicking that very often anymore.

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That depends on your comp and your objective. CSing UA and overall denying it from getting through means you cut off a large chunk of lock’s dps. Deathbolt included since using it without UA won’t hit as hard.
Soul rot is nature school which means if you kick it he can cast everything else and just do his combo later, what’s the point?
What should be actually done vs soul rot is pressing dispel, since eating UA damage is usually way less painful than soulrot+ deathbolt.
If lock uses darkglare after soul rot use some major defense.

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The point is stopping the go. Casting Soul Rot and Deathbolt without Rapid Contagion up doesn’t hit hart either.

That however works just fine too. But if you want to kick something it’s Soul Rot.

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You say like Fire is way more complex xD Mage’s damage dealing isn’t complex on any spec. It’s rather everything else that is hard part.

Overall he should add Orb and Blizzard here and there but yeah that’s how you play Frost Mage.

Fire is literally Fireball or Scorch when you have to kite. Fire Blast if you have 1 proc already and Pyro on big proc. Burst is 2x Fire Blast and then Pyro → Fire Blast/Pheonix flames until out of stacks.

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Idk, 20 casted frostbolts seems very excessive. Even as a shadow priest I would never tank that much. I can also see through the screenshot that you’re the one who died, I really don’t know how it’s possible for an affli lock to die to a frost mage. The lack of Blizzard damage also implies that this Frostbolt damage wasn’t done behind a pillar, more so in the middle of the map.

When are you going to stop this lie?