Now that it's mandatory to grab for HB... How exactly do I use this skill? without a glyph it seems to be situational at best.
Not really seeing why this was made into a mandatory talent.
any ideas?
In PvP you can use it offensively and defensively. I love using it to CC a healer while I burn down his buddy. Or in WSG to freeze all the enemies in our flag room while we run in a cap. Its great for escorting flag carriers so you can CC pursuit. It has literally tons of uses in PvP. Its one of my favorite spells in PvP.
In PvE it can be handy to get a mob off a healer, at least long enough to get it under control. Its also fun to just ride into a big group of mobs or players and see how many you can trap at once
The glyph is mandatory if you have to use it, its too costly otherwise.
PvE you simply don't use it. It's far far too situational. PvP is very handy, and should be used frequently.
I use it as a CC move now in Instances, mainly during the first 2 phases in HoR, in that strip after Ick in Pos. During Precious in Icc when the Zombies spawn. Really useful there.
Many tanks ask what it is, and usually tell me it helps wow gold out.
In a raid it's useless because of AoE and GoHB applying Frost Fever already. In 5 mans it's the same story. In Cata it'll be very situational because after you use it no one else will be able to CC whatever gets hit with it.
You could use it for soloing if you like to pull swarms of mobs but there are actually very few places with packs of mobs that are close enough together to pose enough of a threat where you need to use it. Soloing 5 mans would be one place, but once it gets to be useful it's just more efficient to spec blood for the healing.
PvP is probably the only place where it shines.
Only for them to break soon after being applied because Hungering Cold APPLIES A DOT TO THE TARGETS IT HITS.