I’ve been playing and loving the fire mage pyro-ignite build. Having to switch to Flamestrike and constantly micro manage my mouse location in mythic plus has me just wanted to play a different game. 
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This should have been fixed the minute they made Flamestrike contribute to Hot Streak. You’re telling me that, during Combustion, the INTENDED gameplay is to manually place a reticle multiple times while frantically mashing buttons? It’s unplayable without an @cursor macro and still so jarringly clunky with one. Because accidentally Flamestriking a tree branch is so fun.
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There needs to be more single target passive cleave (pyroblast hits 2 nearby targets etc) instead of leaning into only using flamestrike. It’s the same amount of cleave damage boomkins get but all they have to do is press sunfire, moonfire, and starfall never engaging a target, and mage is forced to deal with tedious and unreliable cursor macros.
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Yeah the design direction is incredibly confusing. Why did we get 7 talents for Living Bomb if the intent is to Flamestrike in AoE? To that end, why push another spread mechanic when we already have Ignite (which was already a pain to tune)? Why does Meteor - another AoE reticle spell - now split damage again, which would suggest it’s for single target?
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YES. I just want the game to feel nice to play and it’s RIGHT THERE. Flamestrike at target directly, boom done. I’m in.
Yeah honestly if they just deleted Flamestrike and made our AoE just passive ST spread I don’t think anyone would mind. Just take all the FS talents and convert them into Pyroblast-splash abilities. It’s not even like it’s a pretty animation…it’s literally still 10x more budget looking than the 2003 WC3 spell lol
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This is the exact same reason i stopped playing elem sham, had to place earthquake manually, atrocious bro. Like, make it cast on the current target instead idk
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Is there an official stance from blizzard on this stuff? I hate simple fixes going unnoticed
shadow crash and some other abilities got this quality of life treatment but not fire wich is the most needed for how clunky and often you need to press flamestrike.,
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earthquake is now around the target, along others but not flamestrike yet… people need to tweet the devs about this
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Is there any “middle ground” build in which we only used Flamestrike outside of Combustion and with a specific number of mobs?
Spamming flamestrike with cursor placement feels bad.
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holy crap are you serious !?
How do we legitimately get their attention to address it?
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Unless there are an obscene ammount of players fighting for the same thing like the Nether Precision thingy, you either need for someone dev or community manager to take notice and put the request forward, which is unlikely, or some big content creator makes the case for it and rally their community behind the change, which is also kinda unlikely.
So in other words, unless lots of people want this change, all you can do is pray for the best.
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As a lifelong mouse-clicker, Flamestrike centred at current target would be the greatest thing to happen to Fire in YEARS for my fossilized butt. 
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I agree with you guys. It’s 80% of the reason why I will NOT play fire mage.
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They should really make @target for these spells a thing.
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