Was watching Xar and Mitch play arcane earlier and went something like 29-1 as double arcane. Is arcane sleeper OP but just more difficult than Frost and Fire so no one actually plays it?
There are probably more people watching them play double Arcane at bunga mmr than all active arena players combined and this is your idea of “sleeper”?
No, it’s just a funny spec to 1-hit newbies/alts on.
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They we’re queing 2500 with it in 3s earlier, would hardly call that low rating
Yea far more OP than assasination rogues, Survival hunters, destro locks and fury warriors. 100%.
Hopefully it gets hotfixed.
dunno why everyone’s flaming OP, it’s a genuine question.
to answer you directly tho OP, it’s not sleeper OP, it’s really really bad, just has high burst potential (so does every spec right now) and is able to kite/peel for themselves really well.
high exp players can make almost any spec look OP, but in reality arcane mage will see much less success than any other spec right mow
It can slap, but it’s very easily disrupted. Ask any Arcane Mage doing keys this week. Then consider how much more aidsy PvP is to keys.
I’m honestly surprised Blizz:
A. Took Displacement away from Arcane.
B. Did not make Shimmer Arcane only.
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1 melee can easily lock down an arcane mage. The reason they would be winning is noones actually vsd the spec so the mlx’s rmps and double melee just have no idea what to do against it but there is a very simple way to counter it that any healer can do.
In 2s, they kite melee for eternity. I saw a DH HPriest barely touch them in 7 minute game, next game they vsd them they just left lol.
In 3s they just set up Arcanoshphere and try to one shot people or get stacks for missiles and try to all in someone. Definitely wouldn’t call it sleeper op though, just annoying.
not sleeper but still a mage. arcane is not bad just because all the mage players worth paying attention to are playing frost or fire for convenience
idk, arcane seems incredibly durable with its toolkit.
I think that elusive is a better word because Arcane feels like one of the most delicate specs out there.
I feel like 30 second alter time, 15 second blink stun, ice block heal conduit, barrier shield, temp shield if you take that along with the amount of slow/move speed they can get makes them durable and elusive. If greater invis works like shadowmeld you can potentially use that to immune some stuff.
Elusive? I don’t think mirror images does much
Yeah, that’s the one.
Fighting arcane mage as melee is infuriating and it probably does pretty well into Destro as well. It’s a lot worse in 3’s into meta comps than 2’s imo.
theyre literally playing at 1400mmr
I watched all of mitch and xar streaming, they are rank 1 mages playing a mage spec so they are obviously going to be great at it and make it look good. Also they go that high because they drop to 1100 mmr and start from the bottom. After Mitch and Xar started streaming there were 10000x more arcane mages in 2v2, I fought a ton of them and let me tell you they are so easy to predict and counter. They either open with the 1 shot sphere build, which they always fail because you just move far away, or missle build but suprise you can also just walk away or LoS it.
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They’re literally queing 2500 3v3s…
(didn’t watch the stream, just randomly click on xaryu VOD, rng makes for a good pool)
i check pvp’d their opponents at 26-0, warrior is 1806cr.
next match, 27-0, priest is 1493cr.
click further in VOD, 21-0, dk is 1635cr.
31-1, rogue is 1828cr.
clicked through this whole VOD, didn’t see them in 3s once, and they’re playing 2s at some of the lowest cr you’re gunna find.
the previous day where they q’d 3s with melon, they went 2-4… which, is still alright, considering the small amount of matches they played before tapping out, but these are like multi r1 players on their main class, for perspective, if they weren’t on arcane it would’ve been a 6-0.
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