I was playin with arcane on ptr and wanted to give my 2 cents on the spec.
Arcane missile (especially with amplification) feel amazing. Home run.
Rune changes are ok. It’s rune so not much change there. Just a bit of QoL.
Focus magic, I don’t see myself ever taking this. It’s booty.
Incanter’s flow I see still being behind rune especially with the QoL change it got. I would suggest a similar change for IF. Make it so Ap/IV/Comb boost it to 5 stacks for the duration of the buff.
Mana shield needs redesign. Give kick immunity for while shield is active.
Nether tempest buff or replace.
Arcane echo. Finally AoE for AM. Must be christmas morning…but. Getting CC procs for this is a huge pain. Maybe PoM can give 2 CC procs instead of AB. Make AB PoM a Pvp talent or something.
Arcane Explosion. Make it so CC procs trigger an extra free explosion on cast rather than removing cost.
Supernova, who is this for? I’d say pvp but no damage. Why is this a late tier damage talent?
Overpowed is still boring. Maybe change it to extend buff time instead? IDK still pretty stronk tho.
Time Anomoly, does this still drop RoP on beta? It didn’t on ptr. It should alongside the above mentioned incanter’s effect. Time warp is nice but my mana hurts after each one. Gonna need some mighty mastery.
Arcane Orb i think should have legion shoulder effect baked in if talented.
Nitpicky but hugely improved. Good job.
Thoughts?
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Isn’t mana shield gone and replaced with the Displacement-type talent? I could certainly be wrong.
When I was testing this weekend Time Anomaly was dropping RoP during the rare occasion when it procced Arcane Power.
Amp + Echo + Missiles is sooooo fun, man I hope they can make stacking charges work so I can play missile spec.
Rune is way too powerful, I reiterate that One Step Back™ is where it should be to at least try to give the row competition. I don’t believe final tuning passes can equalize this out or even come close.
Still super down for swapping Arcane Orb with Enlightened talent locations. I loved Legion shoulder effect though, I’d love to see it make a comeback somehow.
Hoping sometime we can rework our AoE rotation to be more about Barrage + Orb and we can rethink Arcane Explosion to be good again. I’d personally love to see Explosion replace Frost Nova in arcane spec, but work as a knockback force-mage style…far reaching wishfulness.
Completely agree…I can live with this for an expansion compared to what it feels like on the live servers. Hugely improved.
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This def. could use some improvement, it is quite lackluster… I think it should at least provide a diminished effect for solo use.
Also the knockback on burst it once had could be incorporated back to add a little bit more of utility to a talent nobody ever took in BfA.
I remember when it was implemented, this talent was quite bursty. They def. should bring those values back. The knockup is just a nice extra utility for the interrupt.
Also, not related to the ability’s performance, but… can we suprass the visual/sound effect of the proc if we’re not in combat? This talent can drive someone nuts when they’re not in a combat situation.