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Comment by ZaftAlthaus

Blade Barrier
Anticipation
Toughness
and
Improved Icy Tough

Are all necessities for a tanking Death Knight. If you intend on tanking, ensure that your spec has all these (unless another Frost Death Knight will be keeping up Improved Icy Touch for you).

Comment by 64516

Of course it works on bosses. This is the DK version of thunderclap, infected wounds and Judgements of the Just.

Comment by 230590

this makes frost fever equal to other melee slowing effects like thunderclap (20%)

also worth noting for frost specs if you can get https://www.wowhead.com/wotlk/item=40822 now from venture bay

Comment by Archangel76

Yeah. But here's the big question:

Does the slow effect reset/proc with pestilence if you have Glyph of ~~Pestilence~~Disease? (I had the two twisted backwards)
It's already been shown that it doesn't with Icy Talons.

So... unless you're deliberately hitting with IT, are you going to see the effect?

My follow up question is now this.....
Is it worth losing the frost/death rune needed to reset this when it can be used for
Death Strike/Obliterate/Scourge Strike? For a dps build..... hell no.
For a tank however?..........

My take is chances are, someone else in the raid has already smacked the target/boss
with a similar effect. Why waste the time with this talent?

As of 3.3.3, Frost Fever and Blood Plague reset with Pestilence combined with Glyph of Disease.

Still, at the end of the day, this is a good talent for DK tanks but lukewarm for DK dps. This talent essentially places the DK on par with a warrior with Improved Thunderclap.

Comment by 476166

Pestilence does indeed carry over the improved debuff. It modifies the core Frost Fever, unlike Icy Talons, which (previously) gave you/your party a buff based on fresh Frost Fever being on an opponent.

Is it worth losing the frost/death rune needed to reset this when it can be used for

Icy Touch is now a big threat generator, so the answer is yes. If you're doing it right, you'll always have Frost Fever on your main target.

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Improved Icy Touch

Improved Icy Touch

Talent

20 yd range

Your Icy Touch does an additional 15% damage and your Frost Fever reduces melee and ranged attack speed by an additional 6%.

Spell Details

Duration

n/a

School

Frost

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

n/a

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

20 yards (Short)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

n/a

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Dummy
Value: 15
PVP Multiplier: 1
Server-side script
Affected Spells:

	Icy Touch		Icy Touch		Icy Touch
	Icy Touch		Icy Touch

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Modifies Effect #2's Value (12)
Value: -6
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Frost Fever

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Modifies Effect #3's Value (23)
Value: -6
PVP Multiplier: 1
Affected Spells:

	Frost Fever

Flags

Is Ability
Passive spell
Aura is hidden
Cast time is hidden

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