Ever since phase 3 I feel like all mages are forced to play Frostfire and basically only ONE build of it to be useful. I feel like Arcane was doing so well almong the other specs (even though we were level capped). There is definitely WotLK Arcane talents that could be made into runes and be placed with the healing runes to make sure healing doesnt get overpowered. Classic should be like it was where you had the ability to make unique builds and still be on par instead of now where you have to be a cookie cut to get invites.
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Arcane was playable in p1 and early in p2 because frost/fire didn’t have access to all their DPS talents (and gear scaling), where conversely arcane doesn’t really have much in the way of DPS talents. Without them revising runes to add more specific non-healing arcane ones, and maybe revamping talents, arcane will not be viable. And it seems like they’re okay with arcane being synonymous with healing.
Bit of a shame as it’s be cool if arcane DPS was a thing along with frost and/or fire healing, but it’s clearly too much for them to juggle.
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Idk, I wouldn’t mind arcane being a DPS spec, but I kind of feel like it’s alright being a healer spec. Asking for arcane to be good for DPS is like asking for smite priest DPS to be buffed (I’d be cool with that too, honestly.)
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All they have to do is either add a rune on wrist to augment Arcane Blast to self buff its own damage + haste.
or
Add onto Balefire Bolt to also increase Arcane damage done along with its own damage. (the burst is fine, but Arcane’s downtime off AP cant compete with FFB, ignite, living bomb.)
Side note, was Balefire Bolt nerfed or changed today? Use to be able to smack immune mobs in Banish with it, now it wont allow it to cast.
Arcane damage needs buffs.
Arcane damage has been bottom 1 in the game since phase 3. Yes, I understand that it should be lower because it heals, but even if you add up both hps and dps values together, you’re still below middle of the pack dps in total value.
And the healing numbers arcane mages are getting right now is mostly due to aoe healing with mass regen, single target healing is quite underwhelming. I’m actually afraid that as bosses get stronger we will be unable to keep up due to how terrible arcane scaling is.
current HPS and DPS values for MC:
https ://sod.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/2012/#aggregate=amount&difficulty=3&dataset=95&sample=7
https ://sod.warcraftlogs.com/zone/statistics/2012/#aggregate=amount&difficulty=3&metric=hps&dataset=95&sample=7
Specifically, I think Arcane Blast stack damage buff needs a substantial boost. 15% is absolutely abysmal and needs to be bumped to at lest 50%. Currently it is a slight dps loss and a large mana inefficiency loss to try to get stacks because the damage bonus is so low. Increasing that would put back AB stacks on the menu, and help with healing scaling as well.
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Yes it was, check the update notes.
Kinda wish they’d added tbc’s arcane blast where each stack reduced the cast time of subsequent arcane blasts. That version of arcane mage slapped.
Pretty boring tbh, this led to a meta where the only button you press is Arcane Blast.
No thanks.
Arcane Blast does need buffs though, a good way would be to massively increase the stack damage as stated above, increasing its versatility a lot.
bro i had 58% crit lastnight doing 600dps in MC as arcane mage heals. Just gotta know what youre doing. Im technically a healer for my guild and doing 600dps lmao. Not bad for a healer
No, it sucks.
600 dps is absolutely worst dps in the game by a very wide margin. Even if you’re adding up your hps to your dps, you’re not even reaching shadow priest dps who are ALSO healing AND fueling mana to their group.
It’s bad.
unfortunately, one of the Mage DPS specs has been the worst DPS in SoD for the entire duration of SoD. Since we have been through four phases I have to say it does feel intentional because it is every single phase. Arcane DPS was so much fun in P1 and I had a blast with it. Very disheartening to see it get left behind and ignored.
This, they see it as the healing spec 