Can you explain to me why no OBliterate?
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Weischbier
Edit: Check first post! erm I mean second^^
Check out this thread
Frost PvP Guide (Updated 8.25.11) - Forums - World of Warcraft
for frost PVP.
Here's a recap:
With the new changes in the recent patches you will now be using a Necrotic Strike/Howling Blast rotation. You basically want to get as many Necrotic Strikes in as possible.
Your strongest opening usually goes something like this. Make sure you do not waste runic power meaning that you should use frost strike if you are getting close to 130 runic power.
Outbreak ? Necrotic Strike - Necrotic Strike - Necrotic Strike - Necrotic Strike - Howling Blast - Howling Blast - Frost Strike Dump
This is the basic idea of what your rotation per say will be. You should really never have to worry about diseases since you will always be howling blast. Some people worry about getting plague strike up on the target. For me it is really dependant on the situation.
Your normal rotation will be pretty much your opener minus the outbreak unless it is up.
If the target gets out of range you want to be using howling blast as much as possible to keep up pressure. I will say though that sometimes it is just good to save your runes for burst when you get back up to them. As long as they still have a frost fever up on them. If you find you are getting kited way too much or he gets out of your range right before a kill use the rotation below.
Howling blast - Howling blast - Death Coil - Howling Blast - Howling Blast - Death Coil
Best Times to use Obliterate
1) On anything besides plate I will use obliterate on every Killing Machine proc.
2) Also if you have a opp low on health and he has a decent amount of necrotic strikes on him I will usually use obliterate to go for the kill.
3) When you are on a class that cannot self heal (like a mage) and that person does not have healer. Keep in mind you do want to still use necrotic strike to keep up the 30% casting debuff though.
So please realize when I said that the rotation is VERY situational....you do want to use obliterate from time to time.
Best Times to use Necrotic Strike
Since the changes Necrotic Strike has become more useful, but I think this part of the thread is still quite useful with regards to is information. It is good to know that the absorb is not effected by certain things.
1) To slow down incoming damage from a caster. Usually this is going to be in 2?s against a double dps team. Generally speaking if you are needing to go so defensive that you need to use necrotic strike you should be using death strike to keep yourself up, however it is good to throw out a necrotic strike just to slow the caster down a bit. It will greatly decrease there damage done.
2) When the person you are attacking pops a cooldown which will in turn make them take less damage. I just want you to know during these times that Necrotic Strike is EXTREMELY useful since you do not have to pull off the target if they pop a cooldown. In fact you can keep up a considerable amount of pressure going even with these cooldowns popped due to necrotic strikes absorb going right through.
Shadow Priest ? Dispersion
Warrior ? Shield Wall
Priest ? Pain Suppression
Druid ? Bear Form
Death Knight ? Icebound Fortitude, AMS