With all the changes in 4.0, why is Freeze still a thing?

[Core1019]

The only use it has really is pvp for the bind effect, in which case it should be a pvp only skill.

I think they should change it to add a shiva puddle ground aoe (kinda like shadowflare) with a dot/slow/heavy/maybe something like paralysis effect etc. Just something so it's not a complete waste of hotbar space in pve.

While I'm moaning about Freeze might as well add a plea to unnerf Flare/Foul, we were supposed to be the aoe damage class, why did we get nerfed the same as Holy (a healer skill)?

[Rawrz]

Freeze, tether, and Tribind are all the same skill. They really didn't cut situational skills, so much as skills that they feel were downgrades even if they had a purpose. Why do healers still have protect, instead of it being a reduce vuln cd? 0 mp cost. 3 second cast time. Will be swapped out for a terrabad cs whenever people enter a dungeon. Cast again if someone is bad and dies.

[Rongway]

Freeze is an optimal AoE DPS spell when spell speed is too high to get two ticks during Transpose->FireIII.

[echatl]

did you mean blizzard 2? freeze has a 100 potency without buffs being added in and can be cast from anywhere in range, whereas blizzard 2 is a 50 potency attack you need to execute inside the heart of a trash pull to use properly. one is clearly better suited to blm than the other lol.