Fire is incredibly boring to play OUTSIDE of Combustion.
They say they’re trying to buff the Hero Talents that are underperforming
Sunfury Execution (Choice Node with Savor the Moment) currently isn’t picked at all. Nor is Pyroclasm. Even though it does something to break up the monotony of playing Fire Mage outside of Combustion
And they don’t do anything with it!? Seriously, why can Guardian Druid get massive Nerfs and Buffs to Thrash but with Fire they go “Eh, 8% boost to Pyroblast. Ignore everything else.”
It’s ridiculous. Go crazy Blizzard. Fire is so ridiculously undertuned right now.
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Pyroclasm should be removed from the game.
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Plenty of talents and creepy stalkers like you should be removed from the game. As it is, Pyroclasm is essentially unplayable, so your troll comment isn’t appreciated
So much of fire’s current talents contradicts their earlier stated goals of having more obvious power. So mcuh of fire is "nonsense” numbers stacking in the background.
Gameplay should be easy to appreciate, big fireball=big damage, not running a million equations in the background to output undertuned DPS.
Pyroclasm is one of the few talents fire has that actively shifts gameplay and breaks up the monotony of its gameplay. very few other talents do this, really just Heat Shimmer. Everything else is “3% more fire damage” like what just buff the damage baseline and add something actually fun there instead.
Remember on the beta when there was a talent that increased Pyroblast size by 15%? why’d they remove that?!
Hard casting a long cast isn’t fun.
But seeing a massive damage number is. Hence why they should buff Pyroclasm.
And you realize the alternative is hard-casting fireballs, right? Either way you’re casting. And I actually don’t mind standing still to cast a powerful spell, makes me feel like a proper mage instead of a mobile Hunter
They could make it so that Pyroclasm, like Heat Shimmer, is an out-of-combustion ability to make Fire Mage feel less horrible. They could also make it so that it is a guaranteed Crit so you don’t need to time it with Combustion, and make every cast of Pyroclasm reduce Combustion’s cooldown by 5 seconds.