Blizzards & criticals

[Brista]

Well blizzard is channeling so you have to be standing still for it to still be blizzarding, so that wouldn't work.

In regards to blizzards criticalling at all, I recall in beta that they never did critical and that was reported as a bug, but not having a mage that uses blizzard in release, I don't know if that bug has been fixed or ignored or declared a feature.
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OK, thanks for that, I'm quite intrigued by this skill

[Skan did mention it in the mage guide, I overlooked it:

Frostbite

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An Improved Blizzard can freeze things with this, but you’ll need something else to crit them with – Blizzard doesn’t do that, to my experience.

Blizzard doesn't seem (from what you say and from what Skan says in the pinned thread) to have much use at all (from my newbie's perspective)

Now in solo, suppose you herded a huge group of mobs (say about 20) then put a Blizzard between you and them I imagine they'd plough right through it. Still even if movement was slowed to 25% with talents it wouldn't take them very long to get to you. Some would get frozen which is nice. Still with Blizzard hitting at best once per second and Frostbite chance to proc 15% it won't stop a crowd

Can you use Ice Block or Ice Barrier to tank for it? Ice Block really because Ice Barrier wouldn't last very long if one were tanking by a big horde. I imagine Ice Block prevents you from channeling but I'd like to check

Next question, really aimed at the tanks. Is Blizzard something you welcome (damage and snare) or does it make aggro control too hard?