What does this mean for the mage meta?
Might still be fire, the scaling from next patch might make it slightly irrelevant, frost automatically wins on any cleave fight over fire unless execute is super important. Arcane has some strong synergy with the new necrolord legendary since all of their legendaries are relatively lackluster for their single target playstyle. For m+ it mainly depends if fire can still get its combust every other pack, if they cant then they are dead cause their consistent dmg sucks, if they can then they are fine. Single target with little movement will make frost or arcane king because their single target can already be above fire.
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I’d love to be able to play frost again, but changing covenants again isn’t really something I’m looking forward to. The nerfs look bad in a vacuum, but with new conduit slots, conduit ilvl upgrades, and secondary stat upgrades…I’m sure fire will continue being good.
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is coven really a make it or break it choice?
Sure. You’re going to have a tough time against the players that chose “correctly”. There’s just no way around it.
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Fire will probably still be meta even if nerfs go live as is. Tier sets might be released which changes what is meta. The main and biggest nerf tbh is the nerf to kindling. This does nerf what was the biggest strength of fire in M+ as well as what made it able to keep up in ST enough through having more windows to burst than other classes. Maybe this opens up the meteor playstyle though? There’s just too much up in the air to make an accurate meta call right now
It’s barely a nerf. 10% to Flamepatch isn’t going to push Fire out of the top Mage spot realistically. There’s still no AoE cap so it will still be very strong, though maybe less so compared to the other broken meta specs.
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I think the kindling nerf is the game changer. The extra conduit slot pretty much undoes the flamestrike nerf. It’ll be interesting to see what the theorycrafters come up with. For now, I’m not all that worried.
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