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I usually sim my characters to get the best possible results. I enjoy the process quite a lot and since I reached 120, I wanted to find out the best build of the spec. (Note, I didn't want to find out what to play, but rather how my own build fares in comarison.) I rarely mind a 1-2% difference. If it goes above 2%, I really mind a change. What this thread is about is mainly to bring something in the attention of those who help making the class guides, especially the talent choices. To my surprise, I was awed to find out that certain talents outperform previous "Standard" choices in the endgame, probably due to the stat squish.

The Frost go-to build (top dps) would probably be along the lines of <Icy Talons / Cold Heart - Runic Attenuation - Frozen Pulse - Gathering Storm - Breath of Sindragosa>. What I found out primarily was that after the removal of legendaries, Cold Heart severely underperforms at most given situations resulting in a major dps drop due to the low mastery. Gathering Storm also suffers from the same problem and most of the times, Frostwyrm's Fury is better overall. The biggest surprise of them all, however, was that Inexorable Assault overperforms quite a lot, and is the first reason why I made the topic. I then started simming with the above in mind and I came across a build that some would not consider on par with top dog builds around the meta, which is the use of Horn of Winter which overperforms both its other two options when using the Breath build. Talent Sim can be seen here. Another intresting thing, which I loved, was that the 2nd best build uses Obliteration as a lvl 100 talent and no other build surpassed it (Other than the first one, obviously). So, I encourage frost players out there to give their other, less common talents a try. To the class guide author(s), I believe that the two "underdog" talents will earn their spot in the class guides.

Thank you for your time reading this.



 

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Hi Nireas

Just a small advice: As you're giving feedback to a guide it would be better to give at the guide-comment-section:

About the thing what you wrote, I can't give you any feedback because I really don't know frost DK at all ? . In general: i think as a DPS, you should always sim your char if you want to get the best result out of it. It's also heavy depended on what kind of boss (mechanics) you're fighting. Usually the guides on icy-veins give you a good overview what in which situations is a good choice. So you generally get can get good results.

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4 hours ago, Allseye said:

In general: i think as a DPS, you should always sim your char if you want to get the best result out of it.

I completely agree. I didn't know about the comment section on the guides though. I just made the new account here. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

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