Bring back FrostFire bolt … stop removing cool stuff from mage
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[Flurry] is stronger though.
I’d rather have MoP Frost bomb where you could pre-detonate it with fire blast.
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True.
But Frostfire Bolt had the best graphic of any mage spell. It looked awesome!
Heck, just swap the Flurry Graphic with Frostfire Bolt’s graphic and call it a day.
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make it a pvp talent where normally it has a 2 sec cast time. BUT if you get a school of magic locked out it your next one becomes instant cast
Flurry kind of hits the target in 3 staggered hits. So if they made a cosmetic glyph to change Flurry into Frostfire Bolt again, the 3 staggered hits would need to be added together into 1 hit. I wonder if that would be changing the “gameplay” too much for them to do it. Like, it’s a fine line between a cosmetic change and a mechanical spell change (though an admittedly negligible one).
It is not negligible. [Flurry] being a staggered 3 hits not only allows for [Frost Bolt]/[Glacial Spike] > Flurry without consuming a [Winter’s Chill] charge due to it renewing it after the first hit, it’s also 3 instances of [Icy Propulsion] procs.
With that in mind, I just don’t know how Frostfire Bolt would work then. The only way I could see it happening is if they maybe gave Ebonbolt a glyph that made it look like Frostfire Bolt. It wouldn’t be exactly the same as the old Frostfire Bolt, but I can’t figure out how else to add it into our kit.
Also, it couldn’t apply the DoT effect since that’s a gameplay changer.
It just wouldn’t. Sure [Flurry] could be a bit bigger and have better visuals but it is by far our best option for what it does and [Frostfire Bolt] used to do.
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I’d love if all the classes got more cosmetic customizability. Though I’d imagine too much would confuse people (other players) if spell animations were unfamiliar, or changed too drastically. I think Rogues have like 4 cosmetic glyph choices which seems so sad.
No need to go that far.
Just make it a cosmetic glyph that changes Flurry’s artwork.
And still have it be 3 staggered hits. Just use the the artwork for Frostfire Bolt repeated 3 times in rapid succession.
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I was hoping that Frostfire Bolt would be a talent in the revamped class tree that replaced Frostbolt (all mages have this) and Fireball, and benefited from all talents that enhanced Frostbolt or Fireball. Essentially giving a minor DoT to Frost’s primary nukel, a snare to Fire’s primary nuke, and if necessary, a slight dps increase to make the talent point worth taking.
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No need to replace Flurry with it. Keep both. Add Frostfire Bolt in place of Frost Bolt as the cross over mage spell. Or put it as a talent in the class tree.
This seems cool. As long as it wasn’t a required pick for being OP or anything.
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Yea I wouldn’t want it to be a “must have!”, just something for flavor with a small benefit so it doesn’t feel like you’re wasting a point. Even better would be if it made all of your frost and fire spells match the Frostfire Bolt so you could have the fantasy of being a “Frostfire” Mage.