Damage and defensives seems pretty awful. Using combustion, your ultimate burst, seems to get you average damage and anything outside of that is horrific. And even worse than the damage are your defensives. When up against melees, you don’t have strong slows and roots like Frost and up against spellcasters, they purge your barrier.
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Agreed. Fire is my preferred spec for PvP for sizzling gameplay action, but Pyroblasts still hit soft.
I can live with always being behind Frost, but a few more buffs and we could be in a decent place.
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Firemages main issue right now is defensives. Sure damage is low but defensives just suck.
Lots of purges basically nullifying your main defensives and you only get 1 Iceblock unlike frost. You also dont have non stop snares\slows like frost.
So you do less damage, less defensives, less kiting and have nothing that it does better really.
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Sure, more control and defences like Frost could help Fire.
But I miss the days when specs and classes had distinction. One could be about control, while the other could be about burst damage. Etc.
The capitulation of Blizzard to players demanding absolute parity between all specs and classes has led to a near-homogeneity in the game that makes the whole reason for having different classes and specs, feel almost pointless.
I loved WoW for its rock, paper, scissors style of PvP that felt so different from the Shooters I was playing before discovering WoW. Now it’s just rock, rock, rock.
But hey, I’ll take what I can get at this point. 
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Sure but at the moment fire does nothing better than frost pvp wise at least. Since fire doesnt have defensives/kiting that frost has then you would expect it to do more damage but nope
Fire likely needs some dispel protection on some spells, they could buff blazing barrier so it makes barrier undispelable. Fire would still be kinda weak but it would be a okay buff. Maybe give fire back some movement speed it use to have, maybe give a slight blazing speed after blinking or something.
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It honestly just needs a dmg buff. If youre pressuring ppl with dmg they wont be as likely to spend time purging away your defensives. But since fire hits like a wet noodle, they can soak your dmg, pick apart all your buffs and defensives and then nuke you.
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I would definitely be happy with a huge damage increase for Fire Mage in PvP. It’s their theme and reputation (was at least).
Sounds good to me. I’ve played fire PvP since vanilla. Always preferred the burstiness of the 3 minute Pom-pyro mage style.
Not saying it’s the best. Just the style I enjoyed the most.
Its so strange to me to play an exp where fire mage is bad in pvp, they should have the highest burst damage on this game along mm hunter
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Both are “weak” rn in pvp