This is one cool talent for PvP! I am having a blast in casual battlegrounds~
Lichbirne is not bad as well… Strong against Warlocks spamming fear 
Nerf incoming in 3, 2, 1~
and yet it is just a lazy bandaging of the actual issue…
There is basically no reason why transfusion is not a component of horn of winter, permafrost and runic attenuation being one talent and whatever for Murderous efficiency
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I dont see reason why would someone use this talent in arena. Abomination, Nectrotic strike is mandatory to have and for last tier i hightly recommend using either Dark Sim or AMZ
Problem with transfusion is in practice you cant use it in most dangerous situations. cos you will spend your runic power to dont get rune locked + activating this cost a global cooldown and when you are low health you gonna use first death strike (if enemy is in melee ofc) and then using this ability might get you an extra ds but its heal is pretty weak specially if there is mortal wounds on you not to mention when dampening kicks in, its not gonna do any significant heal 5% of your health or even less.
Considering this for defense use AMZ or you can go with dark sim, and use it to steal one heal from enemy (which is most of the time healing more then that that 1x exrtra death strike), or in perfect situation stealing some cc ability to peel enemy from you .
Lichborne i dont recommend either, that self slow is actually huge impact and you cant escape from bad position
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transfusion is off-global.
However the issue at heart is this:
Death knights complained that they had to keep using death strike despite it being so weak and blizzards solution to this was to make you use it even more.
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frost: “we got so many fking GCDs and deathstrike is weak”
blizz: “here have a slightly better DS and more GCDs to spam”
logic level: potato
why not just make it like artifact IBF+DS combo, just make DS heal 400% for 7sec (no cost reduction)? they could even make transfusion 1min
it worked before
Ok so from what I understand, the Gcd stream people hate as frost is:
rune weapon > pillar > remorseless winter.
This takes like 4 seconds to execute.
With empower rune weapon, the issue is that the ability should not be part of the high output combo, it was supposed to be for rune regeneration but for god knows what reason, they put a 15% haste buff on it which turned it into a dps cooldown and screwwed everything up because of it.
With Pillar of frost, the problem is that it is simply not powerful enough to warrant a global cooldown, especially in PvP where it is further nerfed to 10%. With the new trait frostwhelps indignation, this problem is solved by turning it into a dps ability but then comes with it’s own precision problems.
For remorseless winter, it is a dps ability so it isnt really a problem that this uses a global, it’s just a wierd opener, I always thought they should have made a talent that lets remorseless winter use rime to increase it’s size and damage output or something. However, the Gcd awkwardness is solved in crit/haste builds which do not even need to use remorseless winter at all.
Try it against a frostmage, their entire class identity, literally the core of their playstyle just… doesn’t work.
Yea, they just walk away from u instead.
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