Pouring one out for the most fun talent ever created. Relegated to being a generic snare instead of making you feel like a fast car.
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Fun detected, time for blizzard to remove it
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Fun for who? Depends who you ask.
Make rocket boots great again so everyone can have a broken sprint button
25% wasn’t broken, it stacking with other speed boosts was.
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Base movement speed creep is a pretty big overarching issue that’s effecting multiple classes right now, I’ll give you that. It definitely isn’t just mages, but if, say, mm hunters had a pvp talent that procced aspect of the cheetah every time they casted aimed shot or rapidfire, they would be getting the same treatment
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Game doesn’t have to be omega balanced and every talent dull
Everyone should have fun stuff
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Arcane has had it for quite some time though, only really became an issue recently.
MM doesn’t have to cast 5 instants, a 3 sec channel and a 2.5 sec cast time cooldown to burst that are all on the same spell school.
It’s not exactly a 1:1 scenario.
They also don’t have spammable cc, but I could use the same example for literally every class. Arcane mages can’t just be completely untouchable by melee classes with a near permanent sprint
Poly for Arcane is not the same as Poly for Fire or Frost.
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How so?
Regardless, you’re just moving goalposts and zeroing in on an irrelevant detail that misses the point on purpose
Because spamming it gets you kicked and killed.
“spammable” is just colloquial for not having a cooldown, which I think you’re well aware of/knew what I meant, and what you described isn’t even unique to arcane mages either
Arcane mages running around at near mounted speed most of the game wasn’t at all balanced by any stretch of the imagination. Maybe +speed enchants and stuff should be reduced in pvp (as I said earlier, this isn’t just a problem with mages), but the end result of the movement speed creep is still the same, and I don’t think anyone else has a sprint proc tied to one of the main rotational abilities
It’s been a good while since it was that fast, making it 10% instead of touching the snare was nothing more than anti-fun especially on a spec that already has one of the longest and most fragile set ups to do damage.
It’s just a really unfun change that eats in to the design niche of Arcane for pathetically tone deaf compensation (+40% increase on the direct damage of Arcane Surge when you often don’t Surge the kill target because it’ll get denied).
Spammable usually also means low risk (at least, that’s always the impression I got, Mind Control is technically spammable but that’s a very risky thing to do with the ability).
On a side note; Overpowered Barrier should never have been allowed to work with Incantation of Swiftness.
I’m sorry but have you ever played a melee into arcane mage before? That is the most miserable experience anyone can experience in wow. It’s somehow harder to hit an arcane mage than a frost mage even with its 10 million roots. It needs a mobility nerf.
Yes.
Well that doesn’t exist, its always meant no CD on the ability. There’s always going to be risks with casting.
Issue was only 1 spec out of 39 was having fun with it at the expense of causing the other 38 to have less fun
Rogues have a bunch of abilities like this that should also get looked into
hopefully hover uptime (unburdened flight uptime) gets looked at next.
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