Heya guys!! 
So, the big bad Blizzard Nerf Bat loom before us!!! Arrrggghhhh!!! Run for the hills!!!! Ahhhhhh!!!! lol
“There are talents that benefit DW more than 2H. We think that is more interesting than every talent always giving you the same benefit no matter what your gear choices. BCB, Killing Machine and Necrosis, among others, should benefit DW. If DW is too strong now, as some players think, then these are talents we might change. Yeah, we agree with Sawney. A proc per minute on Killing Machine would nerf DW a little while making an expensive talent more attractive for 2H Frost. We would also like to buff Necrosis a little since it just doesn’t pay for itself right now, but that could end up buffing DW too.” (Source)
“Mr. Gargoyle is overpowered. His damage will be going down.” (Source)
OK, so are any of you surprised? Shouldn’t be. Really. If you are familiar with game mechanics and balance, then these comments should have been expected. Me and my buddy Mythra are always amazed personally with game designers. We’ve been friends for over 10 years now. I helped co-write a tabletop role playing game that he helped play test, and we’ve both been playing MMO’s, Computer Games, and tabletop RPG’s for years. And we honestly feel like slapping game designers sometimes because as soon as we hear what is being released we just look at one another and say, “WTF ARE THEY THINKING?!”
Hell, I’ll never forget when he told me they were releasing the Hunter tree where you could get Readiness in a full BM spec and that it worked on Beastial Wrath, aka Big Red Kitty, aka Red Rocket. Meaning a Hunter could keep up BW for a full minute lol. Yeah right, lololololololdiediediediediedie!!!!! lolwut?!?!
So Gargoyle can be 15% of a DK’s DPS. Think about that. How many talents in game attribute 15% of any one character’s dps? That’s a big damn deal. And it’s stupid early in the tree at 21 points. So anyone can get it. /sigh
I personally would rather see it just moved down deeper into the tree to make it an “Unholy” trick, but I don’t see them doing that. Now the big deal here that you need to keep your eye on is the posts testing this change when it eventually hits the PTR. No, it is not currently nerfed on PTR. But when it is, you need to post about it in reference to Unholy DPS. Them nerfing Garg is fine, so long as they do something to increase Unholy DPS. Because if it gets hit upside the head, and nothing else changes…then Unholy is getting the short end of the stick.
This needs to be nerfed, but their idea of changing KM to a PPM effect is possibly murder on that talent and horribly screws Frost as a whole. An internal CD of say 2-5 seconds would not be bad, similar to WF imbue for Enhancement Shaman. But this PPM crap is a bunch of nonsense. I HIGHLY recommend you guys follow this as well. I’ll be sure to post about it again as soon as they make changes on PTR.
Now this Necrosis buff is a world full of win imo. Buffing something I already include in my dps spec’s = awesome. 
Not sure how much though, but atm it gives you less total dps than BCB does. So expect the long term investment here to be greater than the return on BCB since BCB is 3 talent points and Necrosis 5 talent points.
As a heads up, there is an extended maintenance today for WoW…
We will be performing maintenance for all realms on Tuesday, January 6th. The downtime will begin at 3:00 AM PST and end at approximately 11:00 AM PST.
Sucks…I know. But hey, I’ve already done 5 posts for you guys today while you wait!! Lovin’ from SJ is always sweet!! Heh.
-Suffer Well Brothers and Sisters.
What I meant by boosting the 2h build is if Blizzard seemingly wants to force us into a certain build of their choosing, they need to start by boosting the talents and dps potential for 2h. Bring a plausible 2h spec build to the table, where it has the potential to do equal dps as DW spec, then allow people to make their choice.
Keep up the good work Jack, and keep me on my toes 
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