Please, it is clear of the sheer ineptitude when it comes to balancing PvP; and the undeniable favoritism that melee classes receive.
MoP had some of the best PvP balancing, and you know who ran it? That’s correct, everyone’s favorite spectral crustacean – ghostcrawler.
During MoP, cooldowns felt amazing and powerful, there weren’t 800 modifiers to a spell or ability, there were actually PvP sets and specific attributes (PvP power). Honor and conquest gear felt impactful (like now).
Rant over. 5% buffs to fire and frost, lol. No specific nerfs or buffs to spells. Another nerf to arcane execute, but buffing other executes? Lol. Buffs to arms warriors, lol. No nerfs to demos? Lol.
Only the spectral crustacean can bring balance to the universe.
So here is the thing and call me optimistic. They are aware of the state of mages and their rep in PVE/PVP and the overall discontent with the 1.5% of players that remain playing the class.
Nothing about fixing mages is easy and I’m cautiously optimistic a bigger rework/retuning is down the pipeline. I’m sure they could bandaid address a lot of whats currently wrong but with the mess of talents the trees themselves and honor talents its possible they are slating a big mini rework further into expansion and its why we aren’t seeing much now.
Its apparent to anyone the class is a train wreck and unpopular and most mains have rerolled to other classes already. How long it takes them to push out new stuff/fixes/reworks is the question (IF THEY ARE, BUT LETS HOPE)
No one has mained mage in awhile because it was FUN. The majority of mages in BFA/SL were fire fotm rerolls and not diehard mains that have since moved on to greener pastures. They just need to put the fun back into class.
I mean with the current layout of fire specifically. A lot could be done with it with a little elbow grease and some reworks on the existing talent doesn’t need a TOTAL scrap but it would benefit from it like the other 2 specs. Its very dated and bland playstyle wise like most of the 3 specs so when the numbers are bad on it ontop of it. Well you get current mage
MoP the expansion with the most redundant abilities in the game’s history, the expansion that made dmg cds define gameplay and set us on this path of trading cds and every spec being designed around burst windows, the expansion to blame for the WoD prune.
Stampede never again, warrior optimus prime mode never again, destro healing more than healers never again, lol mop hunter never again, sham 80% execute never again, etc.
I would hope the new MMO could be a true WoW killer, but I feel like it’s gonna be a “WoW killer” just like all the other MMOs that flopped to the floor while WoW still remains, relatively, untouched. But we’ll see I guess
Lol. bait too strong. Mage S+ tier for 20 consecutive years, just mid tier for one patch cycle… “undeniable favoritism”
Also… didn’t Ghostcrawler quite literally buff Mages for five straight years because his e-GF he was dating was a frost mage and he didn’t want her to be weak?
I never about this. Frost was very enjoyable then, with frostbomb and fireblast detonate.
And, I didn’t mean to come off as a bait. So you don’t agree that unholy, ret, arms, feral, dh aren’t tweaked a little too high?
Legion arcane was the best arcane ever had.
Cataclysm fire mage was incredibly fun and fast paced (having nearly 60% crit rating)
MoP frost was also satisfying.
Arcane Barrage keeps getting nerfed, and if you look into the modifiers, they are all nerfed in PvP.
It’s clear they don’t want bombardment to be a PvP thing, despite it having a decent amount of setup and when you “execute”, you lose all your charges. So, it isn’t spammable. At this point, I’d just be happy with a rework to arcane barrage. It’s evident they don’t know what the heck they want to do with it.
It’s a “have your cake and eat it too” situation with mages. You want to be S+ damage, S+ utility in poly/ring/freeze/shatter, S+ survival in barriers+time rewind+block+blink+stun remove or double blink OGCD… And these are just inherent mage abilities? Not even class spec stuff, just “oh yeah I have that” on every single mage.
If you get S+ damage, you can’t have the other things. If you don’t have the other things you claim there’s no point to playing mage. Can’t be made happy.
You misunderstand; it’s not about wanting Barrage to hit for unhealable numbers, it’s annoyance that the bigger outlier specs in the game weren’t adjusted.
