Allow me to break the ice. My name is Freeze. Learn it well. For it's the chilling sound of your doom.

If you don't play World of Warcraft I'd suggest skipping this post. It probably won't make any sense.

I have a Death Knight on the server Ravenholdt. After starting as 51/0/0 spec I decided to experiment. I liked the longevity the build brought with Rune Tap, MoB, VB but the build wasn't very exciting. I was having a very hard time finishing in PvP and just wasn't seeing the numbers that I wanted.

I read the wowinsider and wowwiki posts on builds and thought that x/x/31 was going to be the way to go for me. I've always enjoyed pet classes and the perma-ghoul / gargoyle combination looked perfect for me. On a lark I decided to try Frost just because no one seemed to like it. It was considered the tanking tree. The tree looked a little bloated and lacking in flash.

No increased self-healing, no perma-pet, and what looked like a bunch of defensive abilities. I will still say that I don't get a lot of use out of Unbreakable Armor or Lichborne. They come in handy when soloing elites, and definitely in trying to gain the edge in 1v1 PvP. They won't stop an assist train, but they will slow it down. Combine with Icebound Fortitude and Anti-magic Shell and you can take a beating for a while.

So, if this is all that Frost has going for it, why am I so ardently dumping points into the tree (I'm 0/57/0 at the moment)? I'll tell you why. Crits. Crazy Crits. Huge Crits. Controllable, On-Demand Crits. That isn't all of course. Howling Blast has become my bread and butter. Frost Strikes is a much better runic dump. But what really draws me is seeing the big numbers coming rolling up. Oh and the 10 second AoE Crowd Control doesn't hurt.

I tried going to 0/0/5x. I really did. I even got Anti-magic zone. I got the perma-ghoul. But, the numbers just weren't doing it for me. I'm sure my rotation was miserable and sub-par. I'm sure I didn't understand the talent/ability synergy. I didn't get how Scourge Strike was anything good at all. In the end I don't care. I'm addicted to my big fat crits.

Admittedly the power hasn't grown much. I was getting the rare over 2k HB crit at 62. Now I'm still not breaking 2k by much. Maybe I need to update my gear. Maybe I've passed the heyday of Frost. Maybe the Frost Resist of things in Northrend will drive me to try a 3x/0/2x Hybrid. (I know that trying to fight water elementals as Frost was the most frustrating thing I've ever done on Waltyr)

I certainly hope not.