It made me worse.

After rereading last post, I found myself asking why I wouldn't get 5/5 tier soon, before I remembered that I meant Heroic Gear upgrade level. And getting from 4/5 to 5/5 implies using a Mythic stone thing, which I probably won't get soon. So, this is a reminder for myself in the future what I meant.

A funny thing happened with last post, because of the silly names the frost mages gave to their rotations, the post got flagged for NSFW, or NSF-younger people. This seems to be an automatic process, because the flag was quickly removed after I re-submitted it, and some real person had a look at it. Not that different from WoW I suppose, although I read stories that it takes a little bit longer before some real person looks at it in WoW.

Wednesday : Sim day // The vault gives epic trinket.

After last week, I made some changes on how to Frost (single target). Mostly by prioritizing Flurry a lot. So my mind now basically looks at the following things:

* After Frostbolt-Flurry-Ice Lance, if I have a Brain Freeze proc (so my flurry button lights up) -> cast another Ice lance into FB-Flurry.

* After Frostbolt-Flurry-Ice Lance, if I have a Frost of Fingers proc (so my Ice Lance button lights up) -> cast Ice Lance into FB-Flurry. [this is I guess not right, but it seems with all the movement more wisely, also, on target dummy, it actually is higher dps for me as just ignoring FoF, for ME that is].

* After Frostbolt-Flurry-Ice Lance, if no button lights up, Frostbolt into FB-Flurry.

* When spamming Frostbolt between Flurry-CD, use an Ice lance before the buff falls of. 3 seconds before end buff if no FoFx2 , earlier if FoFx2, about 5 seconds.

* Look closely at the CD of Time-Warp, because of the talent that lets me use it more.... yeah, that is a new one, hadn't really thought about that one... oops again. I made sure that CD is more upfront for me.

Weak Aura's for Frost Mage

Now looking at that picture, there is one WA that I don't need anymore in 10.1.5, the Rune of Power one. And I am happy that it ill be gone, it made me a bad raider. The bloody thing gives such a high buff that I needed to be close, and that sometimes conflict with where I should be. So that's where my mind goes into what to do, stay here, take a tick of extra damage, should I help soak... et cetera. Being ankered to a spot, even with a 8 yard leash, is not a good thing, and it made me a worse raider. Glad it will be gone.

Learning how to frost...

 I am not happy... with my DPS.

For the last 10 years I was easy a top 5 player for Innovation. Even though Moonkins sometimes weren't the best for a certain situation, at the end of the raid-night, I knew I had thrown in enough Starsurges and Starfalls to, at least, have some e-peen over my DPS. And now..I am lucky to reach the top 10....

So, how to change that? What is the reason I am struggling? Time to look at Lurge..rr well, Lurger, but I will never get used to that last r.

Lurge about to hit Silvermoons target dummy.
also.. really blizzard, I can hear them scream from Aberrus here?

Lurge actually started getting gear in patch 10.0.7. The island full of rares, and a little bit raiding, gave me some gear to actually not feel that under-geared before patch 10.1 dropped. But, well, then patch 10.1 dropped, and Innovation went to Abberus. I was Ilvl 408 max, and that showed. Even now, 5 weeks on, and just gotten 4 tier set, I only breached Ilvl 420 this Wednesday.

And that is lower as my teammates. Problem here is Mythic+, which I don't do. So for the past month I have been trailing behind on Ilvl. But that should change a little bit next few weeks, when more Heroic gear is coming in, although I still won't be able to upgrade to 5/5.

I could tell you everything about the Balance spec. The ins and outs, what to do how to move. I knew how to find the resources, what you-tubes to watch, and how the talents worked with each other.... but now I am playing a Frost mage. And the rotation guide on wowhead only tells you that much. .

So, I had to find new sources of information, and also, learn a new rotation, and that is something that I am not yet completely good at, especially because, well, a Brainfreeze proc is not a Fingers of Frost proc. I found this on the reddit.

This look simple, but the problem is that it already has 2 different rotations, Milf and Dilf (who came up with those names?) Then there is the silly swapping from rotations at the end of Icy Veins, which is to extend IV I guess, And an added line: use BF-proc in last 5 seconds of IV w/o precast Frostbolt.

Now the main thing about Frost mage rotation is the combi Frostbolt-Flurry-Ice Lance - Il/Fb. That four-spel-combo needs repeating all the time. This will also keep up your icelance and frostbolt buffs normally. Now... what I have been doing last few weeks, was instead of looking at the Brainfreeze proc to cast a 2nd Icelance, was looking at the Fingers of frost proc....  oops.  Now why is that important, because flurried fb/il does a shit ton of dps, and you want that fast.

Now I think I understand what I can do to up the deeps... but..fun fact, that may change soon, because there is a lot of changes coming for Frost on the PTR, including the removal of Rune of Power...hurray.