After 3? iterations of Arcane we have landed on the worst one yet. The rotation went from something fun and reasonably difficult with Sunfury, to convoluted and unsatisfying with aethervision. The aoe gameplay is especially awful, it is too reliant on RNG (orb procs). Feels like your skill has zero impact on your damage in aoe. Sadly it has ruined the spec for me!
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I wasn’t really a fan of arcane in the beginning of the expansion, but I think I’m kind of enjoying spell slinger arcane. It still feels kind of clunky though. I wish there was less need to move into melee range to cast certain spells.
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As Spellslinger, I almost never need to be in close range. With Arcane Orb procs, Arcane Barrage, and area effect Arcane Missiles, I can do almost everything from long range.
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I do not remember a time when I disliked Arcane as much as I do this expansion. I think it feels awful!
So we have three different procs that generate four arcane charges from using arcane barrage, but as far as I can tell only one has a visual indicator (the buff box does not count). If it was important enough to add an indicator for one, wouldn’t that apply to all three? I would not mind the different arcane barrage procs so much if they were merged into one and used an in-game indicator.
The damage modifiers being added to the various buffs, and the effect that has on the rotation, is starting to feel a bit gross at this point. They add these modifiers, but then during tuning the base abilities get nerfed. Maybe it is just me, but it does not feel good.
I like some of the hero talent trees visual effects. Gameplay wise I’d trade them for an aura buff without a second thought. I won’t even touch spellslinger again so long as spellfrost teachings is randomly throwing out orbs.
This post is reading more like a rant, so I think I’m going to stop here. Some classes/specs spent all of DF hoping for dev attention to fix their new talent trees. I am increasingly thinking some specs will be left feeling the same about TWW.
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I’m loving my spell slinger frost mage.
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Agree with you.
Your enjoying pressing frostbolt 8 times after lust and icy veins and ignoring FoF procs entirely when in ST? That’s a take…
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I definitely agree, arcane feels awful. I’ve been obsessed with arcane since legion, and for the first time I find myself “quiet quitting” all the competitive content I used to do.
The massive server problems, input delays, and ignored inputs aren’t helping. Arcane requires precision inputs, which are currently impossible.
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