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Comment by 235419

A staple for all Death Knights in my eyes.

But you have to wonder how much of a benefit from your attack power it will take. If it's only a small number then it may not be as useful.

Comment by Nerizor

Chains of Ice is a very important Soloing ability if you ask me.
It just takes Kiting to a whole new level. -Seriously-.

Therefore, this glyph is worth it in my opinion.

Comment by 86549

If it's anything like the other Death Knight abilities, then a tiny number on the tool tip doesn't mean much. Blood Boil says it'll hit for about half of what it does on my Death Knight, and Icy Touch hits for about five times as much (though I am frost).

I'd also assume that the damage increases with Black Ice, so there's something. This and the talent to add Frost Fever to Chains of Ice make kiting extremely easy, hell, just the talent would do it but a bit of damage is nice.

Either way, it's adding damage to something that normally does not have it at all. I think that's pretty rad.

Comment by 18074

With this glyph and Endless Winter you can potentially replace Icy Touch with Chains of Ice in pvp. You'll loose a bit of damage, but free up an extra frost rune and global cooldown.

Comment by 151016

This would work well to complement Glyph of Blood Strike for some added damage, since you'll probably want to use CoI anyway with that.

Comment by 184734

"Boss dummy"

I have no idea if this makes any difference, but try it on a normal dummy?

Comment by 267546

This glyph proove once again that Blizzard has designed DK to be only viable if you are unholy. As chain of ice being very important in pvp whatever spec you are, you should have this glyph forcing you once again to be unholy. I don't think it is good for WoW that unholy get so much enlightned for pvp (as in PvE by the way). I like to see a class were all spec have same chances, I tend to flee the most used spec aka unholy.

I don't see clearly how Blizzard can clearly deny that unholy will shine once again in 3.1 as the only pvp spec.

This glyph says "unholy" or "frost" written all over it.

How can a spec that is ranged have an insane amount of anti kite possibilities, where the melee one has none ? this have to be a joke

Comment by prodron

3.1, this ability deals 400 damage.
3 ticks from Frost fever does more damage.

Specced frost.

Comment by 182403

Anyhow - great PvP glyph, i'm frost specced for PvP, and find myself casting more CoI than IT, so additional damage (even if it can't crit) is really welcome. Besides... there are not so many good Frost glyphs, specially for PvP.

Hungering Cold + Oblibirate

3rd option can still be:
Blood Strike (you use it for death runes and targets are always snared unless they are immune or your doing something wrong)
Strangulate
Howling blast (gives you a aoe snare effect)
Disease (for those times you just wish to keep on obliberating your foes, also used for death runes)

Comment by Saelos

In patch 3.3.3, this Glyph won't do any damage when you apply Chains of Ice, instead, it will infect the target with Frost Fever.

Endless Winter won't apply Frost Fever anymore, instead, it will give an additional 2%/4% bonus strength.

Edit: Why unrate this?, it was true at the testing phase on the PTR.

Comment by 608989

With Black Ice 5/5, UH presence and 5400ap it hits for 850on target with around 900resilience and 1000+with trinket proced so it isn't isnt SO bad.

Edit: oh and also the damage goes trough disengage, in 3.3.5 patch atleast.

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Glyph of Chains of Ice

Item Level 55
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Requires Level 55
Use: Permanently teaches you this glyph.

Your Chains of Ice also causes 144 to 156 Frost damage, increased by your attack power.

Max Stack: 20

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