Maybe mage is great if you are Gladiator or under, but its a nightmare for those of us capable of playing at the top of the ladder and simply cannot without queueing 5 hours a day, which involves setting up UI, working through game bugs, installing WAs, making new macros, changing binds, adding cancelauras, buying new mice, setting up AHK and the software that came with the new mice, returning the mice because the ergonomics are bad, installing powertoys, getting a QMMK keyboard, and more because of how they engineered things in this expansion. Actually, having to have a QMMK keyboard/AHK/special mouse is typically something you only see in RTS/FPS/MOBA and games that actually have a good E-sports mode. I have 10 more binds than I did in DF, and I would have 13 more total keybinds if I bound the cancelauras(+3) that Frostfire requires. I thought I was future-proofed for at least 3 expansions going into TWW. How wrong was I? Never had we had this many keybind changes and button bloat going into the next expansion. Itâs more than just being about fun or unfun.
I updated the post. I mean, this is 100% a game design issue. This we can agree on.
The spec is inherently worse than DF for your average player who does not have 3-5 hours to play a day to bind cancelauras and install WAs. Playing 3-5 hours a day is not needed to reach Glad, nor is binding cancelauras or installing WAs. Though if you want to be the best Frost Mage in the world and the top Frost Mage on ladder, you 100% need these bound, as well as 1000s of other spells - Ring(s), Wall, Possibly snowdrift. This is not how it should work, we should not be forced to play Frostfire and have a million different trackers, addons, be night elf, have 13 more binds than we did in DF, etc, etc, etc. In DF we did not need to take Snowdrift or Ice Walls; it was an option because it was more fun. Lol. They are actually considered a good option now, queueing into most comps.
I canât have fun if I cannot minmax with what I am given. Theyâve created a game where it is very difficult to minmax without dedicating a god awful amount of time + new hardware purchases to find something that is comfortable. It was not like this in DF, at least for the top of the ladder. You could get by with the same gear, spec, and playstyles as you could for nearly every pervious expansion, aside from Cata, which was based on Icelance instant spam, but Cata was a whole lot better than what we have now.
The simple solution is balancing the rest of the game, like you said, and then start removing things like Hero Talents and racials in PvP if needed.
We complained about borrowed power in Alpha/Betâthat is basically what Hero talents are providing, and they still did not listen. They never listen. They just do what they please. Anytime they say they are listening, its 100% a publicity stunt.
