I hope they remove this bs spell from the game in SL so people does not face a fire mage every 2-3 arenas, or at least removing frost spells like ice block and ring of frost from fire spec.
Who hasn’t seen a mage in battlegrounds only casting gpyros and getting 10M damage overall? Being hit by 2 of those boulders is 70% of your hp, and with the super smart combo of poly+ring of frost+blink you’re most likely getting 2 of them in the face, otherwise you have to use a big cd for countering a spell which has NO COOLDOWN.
if you don’t want to remove it due to the fun factor of oneshotting people at least give it 10 seconds cd or something.
before you ask I’m only 2k rating and I couldn’t figure how not to get mad about a 1 button spec being top in 3v3
The big PvP strategy is to protect your Fire Mage, which will out-DPS everything as long as they’re able to cast.
It’s easy to say just walk up and stop the cast, and then you have the most mobile caster spec in the game spamming Scorch and Pyroblasts until they can get peels and continue to one button spam, or peel themselves.
Greater Pyroblast isn’t…A fun spell to deal with in general. It’s easily one of the best, if not the best PvP talent. And this is from someone who has a way to be immune to spells for a bit.
gpyro was here for all of legion and it wasnt played. dont blame the spell when its the rest of the game thats screwed. granted I do think all % based greater spells should be deleted (greater heal included).
also pruning fire out of even more spells isnt gonna make anything better, they already lost most of their spells.
To be honest, I kinda hope it gets yoinked too. Its existence is used as justification against various quality of life improvements for fire, and it’s really just a giant band-aid on the overly cooldown-based/bursty nature of the spec. I’d rather fire be focused around mobility and more even sustained DPS than it be the modern incarnation of the old 3-minute-mage spec.
Not in arena, which is where the gameplay is based around. You cannot stop every Gpy and any ability doing 35% of a target’s health because one got blinded, and the other got kidney’d shouldn’t be in the game.
Yes gpy is really OP atm. I hope they don’t remove it but then again with such a long cast it has to be powerful if you get one off.
What i would prefer to see is that some of the other classes become more viable in PvP as a counter, a class like Hunter is almost completely missing from top tiered PvP and even then there is only one spec represented (Surv). With more diversity in the classes at the top you wouldn’t constantly see Fire mages everywhere and in every other game. MM/BM Hunter’s don’t exist in high rated PvP because they have NO SURVIVABILITY at all in almost any sense against any class so they are always easy kills…and with bad design decisions like forcing a kiting spec like MM to not only hard cast but turret in place to do damage there is just no way to be effective. Things like Lock and Load which SHOULD be able to mitigate that some so you can actually play the game instead of constantly run have such a low proc. rate they become useless, when you can go entire arena matches or even entire BG’s without a proc…something is wrong, yet the devs just ignore it and don’t fix anything.
And so we are left with season after season after season after season of Rogue/Mage and whatever being the absolute top PvP with massive representation while other whole classes have zero existence…kind of makes you wonder who runs the PvP team and why they are still running it?
No need to removed, just balance it with a resource cost and making it baseline (in suck a way that it acts like a great CD similar to Army of the Death or Frost Wyrm on DKs).
