Make precision stack to 3 or make aethervision 40% but it cannot be used together with precision, so if you have both it will prioritize aether and not use nether.
Make aethervision work with explosion too, why is there a stupid limitation where vision can only be stacked up with blast??
Explosion is supposed to be the aoe spammable but it is completely overshadowed by blast, it’s nice that arcane has funnel, but you know what would be nicer? Having both funnel and full AOE.
I personally think that Aethervision is fine. The only reason people hate on it is because they got used to the double dipping and are stubbornly trying to shoehorn Aethervision into that playstyle when it was specifically designed to supersede it. It’s an entirely player-made problem.
I completely agree about Arcane AoE though. It needs a complete overhaul. They need to make up their mind about AE and what place it will play in the AoE rotation. We also need more AoE talents because literally all we have is Orb Barrage. Most of the time our AoE rotation is exactly the same as our ST because TotM necessitates it. TotM is really at the heart of all of Arcane’s problems because it essentially locks it into only being a burst funnel spec. In this sense TotM is almost like Combustion in that you don’t really do any damage or anything of consequence outside of its window but unlike Combustion TotM doesn’t do anything to augment your rotation or make you feel powerful. Everything they’ve done to Arcane since Legion has made things worse in one way or another.
Iv’e been thinking about this a lot, and i cannot believe this very simple fact escaped my mind.
Adding aethervision to explosion wouldn’t work like blast because explosion can consume clearcast while blast cannot, so what would happen? Would the stacks reset? Or would you just waste a proc? Either choices are not good.
So the real solution is to add a secondary effect specifically for explosion, it can literally do the same thing just that it’s a stacking buff for barrage when you press explosion, and when it’s an explosion clearcast it counts as double.
Then they really need to buff explosion itself, i honestly like the ability, i think it gives arcane a very unique way of doing aoe that’s more similar to melee and different from every other caster. Explosion needs too many talents to do bad damage, they need to reduce the count of talents that you need to make it work properly, so static cloud needs to be baseline possibly reverberate too, and increase it’s damage.
And in case being in melee is not an option or you need prio damage, the usual blast missile barrage is also an option to do respectable aoe and good priority damage.