Greater pyro out of control

PVP Battlegrounds
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so tired of 3-4 fire mages in bgs being able to spam greater pyro with no cd. sure you can kick them, but you cant kick all of them. boom 1 shot

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It’s a long cast and you have other teammates.

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4 warlocks, 4 spriests, 4 warriors, 4 rogues, everything destroys when there’s multiple of them

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what about four mm hunters?

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  1. Greater Pryo, while no CD, has a 4 second cast. Get out of range, stop it, or LOS it.
  2. Greater Pryo does up to 33% (or always does 33%)…so how they “1 shot”…I dont know.
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Greater Pyro is roughly a 4 second cast depending on the amount of haste, anyone with half a brain especially a caster that can target 40 yards away can interrupt, you can also run out of range as well. If im facing decent teams wether its battleground or arena they will try to interrupt it every time

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Gpy is probably more manageable in a rated bg setting, but it’s cancerous in 2v2 and 3v3 arena. Randoms, well, I don’t think we’re allowed to complain about those, if I’m not mistaken.

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I’m so tired of 3-4 warriors charging me and instantly killing me with no cast bars or ability to interrupt them. Sure you can blink, but they just heroic leap or storm bolt. Boom 1 shot.

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From a healing standpoint, it seems like 90% of random bg’s is me face-tanking a sin rogue/dh, perma-slowed, and watching the mage sit back free casting gp’s into my face. Meanwhile, my team rode past me while I was getting sapped so they could go fight some prot pally in Africa. The only time I don’t mind too much is when I play my rsham and can actually interrupt the mage (assuming there’s only 1. Also, god, please, give back rebuke to my hpal).

Point is, it’s not a healthy spell for pvp and the problems with gpyro are magnified in bg’s because of the general lack of awareness you often see among teammates. I don’t think fixed % spells should be a thing.

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It does 35% of someones HP.

Of course one Gpyro won’t one shot someone, no one is claiming that. It’s when you have 3 of them land on one target within a global of one another that you get a one shot.

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OP is a warlock?

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I only think the shimmer makes it worse than it really is.

Maybe because I’m Batman tho

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What in the world is going on around here.

If you have 3 dps on you you should die. It takes forever to cast, and slowly goes towards the player that they can clearly see and gives plenty of time to react.

Use a defensive. Or die, as you should, when 3 dps cast 4 second spells on you and you let them.

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I pretty much just took the OPs statement and word for word changed it to a different class… cmon now don’t be dense.

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My bad, lmao. I interpreted the OP as being mad that pyroblast spam in bgs was leading to team wipes, as fire’s burst can certainly do so, not that he was dying to 3-4 fire mages in a 1v3/4 scenario.

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For the record i believe any one should die by 3-4 dps, healers included as you said above. :wink:

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I’m not necessarily saying Gpyro is broken… I actually agree with most of these posts that it’s a 4 second cast, if you let someone cast on you for 4 seconds and don’t kick/cc or Los or outrange them… then you deserve what’s coming. Much more so if you let 3 of them do so.

I was simply correcting the dude who thought it was 33%.

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Ah, ok, great! I totally agree.

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If 3 mages are able to cast gpyro on one person that means it’s gotta be 1v3 which is good for that one players team.

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Greater pyro is easy enough to interrupt, but I don’t really like the idea of abilities that deal damage equal to a % of health.

It may be overtuned because of the % health thing, but I don’t think it’s that bad of an issue.