After several patches,The talents changes from the 17/0/44 deep frost in TBC to the violent arcanes in 3.0.5,to the "wretched" arcanes in 3.0.8,through the regress of frost in 3.0.9,finally to the 20/0/51 the deep frost conquer the talent for PVP again in3.1.0.Maybe the old arcane frost was forgotten by most of us.
I met a special mage today and studied his talent after beaten by him several times in duel.It's extraordinary that I found that except for the deep arcane, the arcane-frost was also restraint the deep frost.And the advantage of arcane-frost was not so weak when combatting with the rogue hunter and new grow-up warrior
The explosion of arcane-frost was too harsh in TBC,which needs a initiative freezing,even with the Improved Counterspell can cast an AP ice arrow+ presence of mind arrow;and the arcanes can got both the Incanter's Absorption and Ice Barrier with the 80 level's talent.with the help of Ice Barrier,the Incanter's Absorption can got its greatest value.
A mage with 2000 SP can got his SP reach 3000 easily when fighting with classes like frosts or DK.And that provides foundation for eruption.The Patch days ago destroyed the Ap+presence of mind by block the presence of mind before the AP stopped,That made most of the arcanes sigh.
Honestly,it's a nerf for arcanes,but maybe others didn't mentioned that the CD of presence of mind and AP was greatly shortened,And it's a buff for Arcane-frosts.
Talent

Glyphs:evocation,Polymorph and ice barrier.
Weapon enchanting:The black magic

The black magic,really seldom people will choose that.
The effect was a dot may given to the target when any damaging spells casting.The visual effect are just like the Curse of Agony and the icon are same with the dark rune.209-231 shadow damage every 3 for 15seconds.And he spoke highly of that when been asked about the feeling.
Advantages,Improved Blink instant fade and presence of mind with 84s CD and evocation of 2min CD when compared with frosts.and we got a double ice block and a ice barrier that can absorb 4500 at most and high damage provided by Incanter's Absorption.
Disadvantage was also obvious,no slow,no deep freezing no brain freezing and Missile Barrage,but that was not important.
Maybe we can give up some parts and got the Fingers of Frost to make the explosion more flexible and cover the shortage of nova
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