Arcane orb being baseline would help bridge the gap between the gearing for single target vs aoe but not both issue. If you’re single target focused, you can use arcane orb to help supplement your aoe without making you OP, while also making your single target rotation just a bit more interesting. Which I think it clearly needs.
To a lesser extent, I think arcane explosion could just as easily be an ability that does the exact same thing except from 40 yrds like the rest of your abilities. You cause your target to explode and dmg everything around it. Or you’d think you’d get a little something more than a reduction of your invisibility spell for forcing you into suddo melee range as a cloth wearer.
Thoughts?
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We’ve been asking for it for 2 maybe 3 expansions now dude. For some reason they won’t budge.
The crazy thing is if you look at Frozen Orb, it does more damage than Arcane Orb and has more functionality to the gameplay of Frost than Arcorb does for arcane. Forb is baseline, Arcorb is a level 100 talent … makes sense, right?
Now that missiles aren’t a proc (which you used to get off Arcane Orb), it makes NO sense for arcane orb to be a talent and certainly not the top tier.
The devs for all their “class fantasy” crap don’t know what to do with arcane and, even sadder, really don’t seem to care.
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I’d take this over Touch of the Magi any day.
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They’ve already gone with TotM as a baseline castable spell, so the baseline arcane orb/nether tempest conversation is moot. At this point what arcane really needs is:
- to reduce the GCD bloat for burst. Taking TotM off of the GCD and making MI a utility cd would help with that (at least it would keep it where it is now); and
- a charge generator separate from arcane blast. Ideally this would fill a similar niche for arcane orb, and that lvl 100 talent would be replaced. Low damage, low mana cost, and cleave damage. Proc chance from barrage for increased damage and charge generation.
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I like this idea. I used to take that talent when it was new because it could quickly net me arcane charges. I don’t know that it would work as a central part of our spec like Frozen Orb is for Frost Mages unless its damage was increased substantially.
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Arcane orb as baseline would be excellent, we need baseline cleave abilities badly. Or make Arcane “Blast” do passive AoE dmg. I also loved arcane barrage having a chance to shoot arcane orb out, that would be excellent as well!
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