Potential Frost Mage and Deathknight Synergy

Ok, so, this is what I initially wanted to talk about in my first blog today, but I felt it deserved it's own blog and that way I can continue my series with other classes.

The big point of this: Frost Mage + Death Knight = Frost Mage Viability via Synergy

Ok, let's look at the big ones, first of all, they share a similar talent: Frostbite - Frost spells have a 15% chance to freeze the target. Both classes are adept at CC, movement impairing, and rooting (woot).

Well, how do mages fit in there? Let's look at old school skills first:

Ice Shards - Crits deal double damage, nuff said.

Shatter - Increases critical strike chance against frozen targets by 50% (talent). before death knights, the only class that could freeze a target was a frost mage.

Ice Lance - Deals triple damage to frozen targets. Rank 3 (lvl 78) is 221-255 damage or 663-766 to a frozen target. Not bad, I crit for 2.2k now, this should up it a lot in Wrath.

Winter's Chill - Increases frost crit strike chance by 2%, stacks 5 times for +10% crit total.

Now, how would these old school talents work with a death knight... humm

Frost Strike - 10% chance to freeze a target, not bad, if this proc as you get an frost bolt off, it's big damage from shatter/shards combo.

Frozen Rune Weapon - Applies a debuff increasing frost damage by 1%, stacks 5x. not bad, +5% damage to everything that will most likely stack with curse of the elements.

Chains of Ice - Freezes target in place at range for 3 seconds. A good arena team will coordinate a chaining and a frost bolt/ice lance combo, this will be deadly in the hands of a good arena team

Hungering Cold (51 pt talent)- Leeches heat from the ground and freezes everything in place. Tab-Ice Lance ftw? I think so.

These combos look pretty cool. AoE/Ranged freeze + Ice lance/Frost bolts. Mages boosting DK crit while DK boosts raw damage. It looks like a great synergy... not to mention the amount of freezing will mean lots of lucky shatter procs for big crits for the mages off both character attacks. Now, one point I haven't touched on: Raid bosses can't be rooted. /facepalm right? Wrong because of this:

Winter's Grasp: Target is considered frozen. Now, I don't know what this means, but it potentially means that raid bosses will have a chance to be susceptible to shatter procs from ice mages. Only time will tell on this.

Since we're talking about Wrath end game, Hunger Cold + the new Deep Freeze (AoE stun on frozen targets) that is the frost mage 51 talent.. /evil laughter Let's hope the enemy in 5's stands close together...