01-12-2005, 04:47 AM
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Basically - Frost Nova is not a reset button. You can't start a fight all over again with it, and dreams of getting 36-41 yards away are just that - dreams. Frost Nova buys you one spellcast - no repeat process.
The closest you can get is by Blinking immediately after you Nova, turning, and casting. Even so, that's twenty yards only and unlikely to score you more than one uninterrupted cast. And the conditions where Blinking forward doesn't toss you into more mobs are not common.
Hmm, ok so Frost Nova doesn't really help that much, it's more like a panic button than anything else?
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After the introduction of talents, you will probably never use all of Frostbolt, Fireball and Arcane Missiles in the same combat. Therefore, I'm not sure what you're asking - if you're Frost specialized, Fireball isn't better than Missiles, so Missile away. If you're Fire specialized, you won't be opening with a Frostbolt or casting Frostbolt at all, really, except against fire immunes. Clarify the question?
Yeah, I wasn't quite clear with what I was saying - my question was that since you were going to put so many points into Missiles anyway, does Fireball really outdamage Missiles enough to justify the specialization? For the Frost route, wouldn't it make more sense just to fire one Frostbolt to freeze, then Missile the rest of the way?