Let's talk about 2.1 freeze

[RegnumMagik]

It will take the place of Blizzard II in our AoE rotation.
It is 0.5s longer than Blizzard II and does 100 damage like Blizzard II does on live.
It is ranged but has to be targeted (this should add little time time overall, once you're accustomed to manually targeted casts).

Blizzard II is also cross classed now, so Freeze will be unique to BLM.
The Bind effect is marginally beneficial.

It's 1 second longer, not .5 seconds. Unless you're including the GCD, but you might also want to consider the chance of interruption.

As for the placement part, I wasnt even thinking about that.