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Kelborn
You just have to experience it and practice it.
This. I used to play Frost for a long time, took a break and played my Mage, then came back as a Blood tank. Took up Frost dps off-spec for some fun on the side... Took me quite some time to get the feel for it again, even after playing it from day one of WotLK.
I think the simplest way to explain the "rotation" is this:
Keep on diseases
Only Frost Strike should be used on Killing Machine procs
Obliterate as often as you can
Howling Blast on Rime procs, even better if Killing Machine procced too
Blood Strike to make Death Runes
If using Glyph of Howling Blast, drop Plague Strike and Pestilence and use Howling Blast to refresh Frost Fever
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woohaa
I think the simplest way to explain the "rotation" is this:
Keep on diseases
Howling Blast on Rime, Killing Machine procs
Frost Strike if Killing Machine procs and no rime
Obliterate as often as you can
Blood Strike to make Death Runes
Frost strike if no runes up
HoW if nothing else to push
there fixed...don't ever use GoHB in dps. rime/km procs have priority over a km/frost strike. reason people think that km/FS is priority is because a frost strike crit does more dmg then a HB crit. However, you need to compare the differences between a non-crit HB to a non-crit FS. a non-crit HB is barely even worth using whereas a non-crit FS still does decent dmg and you have a decent crit chance on a FS compared to a HB so there's a better chance that the non-km FS may still crit.
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Kelborn
Haha. Guess I'm still pretty rusty with Frost DPS and the recent changes. I used GoHB in dps because I was using it when Frost was my second tank spec and forgot to change the glyphs out. Still pretty decent numbers for someone not too serious about dpsing.
I see your point with the crit vs non-crit of FS and HB. Never thought about that, because really I would use Frost Strike on Killing Machine, but if Rime and KM had procced, I'd use Howling Blast first anyway. Kind of doing what you're saying without really thinking about it.
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sushigaski
I use the following Frost priority rotation:
Killing Machine Frost Strike
Keep up Frost Fever
Keep up Blood Plague
Obliterate
Blood Strike
RP Dump Frost Strike
Rime Procced Howling Blast
Horn of Winter
That is ST. ST I rarely have time / gcd to hit a Rime proc. In AoE, of course, the priority is very different, with HB being used as often as it can be, and ideally used in conjunction with a Killing Machine proc.
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