Blizzard, you tune overpowered DPS specs like fire down on new expansion releases, fire mages are useless without crit. Why do you allow hybrid classes to one heal themselves with instant casts on a regular basis? If it’s a cooldown, fine, but you give them a proc for a free instant heal and it literally heals 2/3 of their health. How the hell do you consider that balanced?
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oof
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all in boys lets see where this one goes
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OSfrog 10c
Show us on the doll where the ret touched your Frost Mage.
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Balance is booooooring. 
Lets just have fun PvP and the solution to your problem is if you Yeeeeeeet! They can’t heal.
Just spam shimmer/gpie m8… oh wait.
Alright fellow ret posters save this one for the books. Mage tears mmmmm
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wheelchair comin through
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you leave those sweet innocent enhances alone you demon
Hahahahaha, you’re awful.
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When did anyone ever stack crit as a fire mage
You have combust and fireblast for a reason
Fire damage is actually still really high in arena
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Fire dmg does feel really bad in general though without 40-50% crit.
You can go like 5-7 fireballs right now without a single heating up proc which at 2.2 base case just feels bad.
Its dmg is still really high in combust but everything outside of it doesn’t feel great is what hes prob trying to say. With haste/versa being the go-to stat for a spec that doesn’t “flow” well without high crit/mastery your basically reduced to a fireball spam bot to get combust back quicker.
Fire is fine yes but it feels off/bad mostly playstyle wise.
Thats atleast my take on it. Spamming fireballs that have a high base cast of 2.2 seconds and generally low damage attached to it just to feed combust faster really isn’t all that great.
Spec is fine, it works, dmg is fine but the overall feel is off. At 40-60% Crit which fine tends to see late an expansion without even stacking it the spec just flows better since you can fireball crit nonstop so its stream of damage does feel right.
I don’t even think crit/haste fire would even be viable in pve/pvp anymore with how mastery changed the high value on versa stat.
As for OP just focus on getting Infernal Cascade and combust 100-0 someone in 2 gcds lol.
hello i am a hybrid
Firestarter
But you play Prot? 
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Slander and lies
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90% and above only, which in all pve/pvp situations is pretty meh value wise. Especially when you combust combo and have no more fireblasts your left with no dmg and no way to close out if needed.
Searing touch is great, it gives you mobile finishing damage and ability to pillar chase if needed. Searing touch right now does more damage then fireball, mine hits for about 1400ish nonstop.
Pyromaniac would be great if it had like 40-50% chance. 8% makes it a dead talent lol.
Sure if you excusively play RMpala and have access to kidney shot and hoj maybe dont need searing touch.
Any other comp you do lol.
Was used pretty frequently by a lot of the better mages last season, just gives you a lead on pyros
I mean this is literally just how fire is designed, you try and kill with your combust
If you didn’t kill them with your combust then you probably got CDs this doesn’t really make much sense
Jahmilli pretty much always played this one as fire
Plenty of random targets you can just get two fireballs on or at least one to build up your hot streak for, gives you extra damage in a go. Then you can just sit and wait
Without things like gushing wounds it’s pretty easy to have targets above 90% if you’re just waiting to set up for another go, especially just a random off target just to give you one extra pyro
I didn’t play but 2 weeks at tail end of last season so wouldn’t much about the season in general.
Searing touch being 100% crit and big damage can be a kill vs no kill if someones sub 30 and your trying to push it. No brainer pyro spam on the run.
Makes perfect sense if your not a hunter main.
Anyone can play it, doesn’t make it better then searing or firestarter for the reasons we both listed. You can literally go sit on a dummy and not see a proc for 5 minutes straight. Rng is Rng and when 8% is your go to, its a mighty fine gamble.
Or you can see rngjesus praise you and give you 1-2 procs in a row or play 10 games without ever seeing it. Still a crappy talent.
Regardless has nothing to do with what OP said. With changes fire received spec feels pretty meh flow wise outside cds with haste/versa being go to stat.
Pretty subjective enjoyment wise either way. Personally I think frost feels better of the two, because even when you aren’t getting crazy BF procs, frostbolt has a big slow attached to it with icicle storing on the back end. So when you do get a BF proc it feels good to dump with it.
Haste versa fire flow wise lacks that. Fireball is a 2.2 cast with no slow attached and with mastery being non existent its a big oof.
Thats just my 2 cents on it. Spec is fine, kills things, does well but has a super off feel to it enjoyment wise. Might even get a nerf, I can 100-0 someone with infernal cascade in 2 seconds, and instant kill if i gpyro combust lol.
My meteors at 17% versa and infernal cascade are hitting for 11-12k with infernal cascade combust