The spell is laughably bad. It would work better with current Arcane design if it did something like add an Arcane Explosion to your Arcane Blast target instead.
They completely lost the plot on Arcane Pulse.
First of all, it never needed to outright replace Arcane Explosion even when it wasn’t a cooldown but most definitely not now that it is. Second, if they’re going to keep it predominantly as a cooldown and Arcane Charge generator it needs to do a lot more damage and be instant cast, otherwise it’s just a worse Arcane Orb with the added opportunity cost of losing AE. And if it’s going to serve the same function as Arcane Orb it should just replace it instead of Arcane Explosion and rid us of the highly problematic nature of Arcane Orb’s ground based traveling projectile and its potential to pull unintended mobs, get stuck on terrain, or miss the target entirely.
Alternatively, if they truly want it to be an AoE spammable then it simply needs to function like an AoE Arcane Blast and have a high but still manageable mana cost, not the outrageous one it had initially which made it virtually unusable.
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