I’m begging u on my knees ! Please blizzard give us a buff OR increase the proc chance on clear casting procs…
I did my burst opening arcane blast, burned down ALL of my mana and NO freakin clearcasting proc at all!!!
There is nothing more frustrating then this…
At least fire if u don’t crit u get more chance at critting or dmg
Frost also has way higher proc chance
Please help arcane mages !! Please!!!
Getting on your knees will only make Blizzard stronger!
But, yes increase the proc chance.
IMO Clearcasting shouldn’t be the main source of dmg, it should be a beneficial way of avoiding using mana. The mana spender should be what does the most dmg.
I honestly think they should just buff the dmg of just Arcane Blast by 20-30% lol. This fixes the whole spec. provemewrong.jpg
Yes I agree a dmg buff would help but, casting clearcasting procs helps us arcane mages way more because we can move and not stand still while casting these, there’s too much movement required for us , arcane blast takes way too long to get going let alone stopping and restarting again over and over, at least if we could get more cc procs we could move around more freely, and wouldn’t lose dps
I think Arcane’s single target should be so strong that its lack of mobility during Arcane Blast spam is what makes it balanced. I feel like that’s the niche this spec should be filling, literally just Become Turret.
Also I think Shimmer is still the better mobility option in that row.
How bout… make move while clearcasting baseline, and then the talent becomes “After using a clearcast proc, gain a charge of Slipstream, which allows your next non-missiles cast to be castable while moving.”
I kinda like Clearcasting as a valuable proc. If it’s too often, might as well just make it like Fire Blast charges or ice lance, it’s less special. Imo clearcasting doesn’t need a higher proc rate, it needs to be more rewarding/utility focused to use when you get it, and it shouldn’t be the main thing arcane wants for single target dmg numbers, at least not because it literally does the highest numbers.
Higher proc rate would def be -a- buff, but idk I’d rather Arcane be buffed in a way that’s more unique to arcane.
Yeeeeeeaaa, no. We’d just end up in a situation where we don’t bother to use CC/AM procs and just spam AB. That sounds like a really terrible rotation. Like, NoIL terrible.
Increase AB/AM damage by 5%, buff CC proc rate by 100%, slipstream and orb baseline. That would at least temporarily fix us, and then we can hope for a proper overhaul in 10.0
Everyone basically needs to stop playing Arcane… Its the only message Blizz listens to it seems.
I already did.
Moved onto my feral druid who is now at a higher ilvl. Since I started PvPing with the feral a day or two ago, I have seen ZERO arcane mages. Heck, I’ve seen very few mages overall. But this is random BGs so it’s not really representative of much. Planning to try a bunch of arena skirmishes this week.
I went Frost and having a good time with it… I tried another class but I couldn’t regrind everything again, I’m getting sick of it.
That won’t help at all because the main problem with Arcane right now is the non existent mobility. Every single raid encounter in the current tier except Sludgefist requires almost constant movement and throw is consistent with how raids have been designed for years now. The only way Arcane can deal ST damage on the move is with CC AMs. Unless the proc rate is substantially buffed and the duration increased to allow storage for when movement dictates it Arcane will continue to be terrible on just about every boss fight.
I am already there, have been since I cleared CN on normal the first day it came out and realized Arcane would be a no go. Literally everything I’ve done since then is one 14+ for the Great Vault of Disappointment and Choregast plus keeping up with the renown. Sometimes I do it all on Tuesdays and don’t even log in on my mage for the rest of the week. And I’ve been maining an Arcane mage since Vanilla. SL is truly ridiculous unless you happen to play one of the handful of well performing specs which for the most part haven’t changed since the launch of the expansion.
I think a Buff to Arcane barage wouldn’t be that bad.
Increased ST damage, increased cleave.
More dmg outside of Arcane charges with barage would increase our dmg during movement.
I think the proc-rate of AM-clearcasting will be better later in the Expansion, when we get more Mastery - but Arcane barage I have the feeling it is and will be underperforming.
Nobody played Survival for years till they got a re design and they still suck so…
You actualy need the reverse, if everyone was playing arcane tjey wpuld care.
Wait You got me confused, how does mastery increase clearcasting procs? Mastery just increases arcane dmg but doesn’t increase the proc rate, so not sure what u mean here, I can have all the mastery in the world and cc would still not proc
That makes no sense to me either. I suppose they mean indirectly because of the increased mana pool? But mastery doesn’t provide nearly enough of a boost to mana in order to make a difference. But CC procs shouldn’t be tied to mana spend to begin with. It should be a flat % on spell cast.
I’m impressed you typed this with a straight face 
Listen! It’s gonna happen, okay!? 
I’ll still be on my knees until it does!! 
Presence of Mind should work to “Slipstream” hardcast Arcane Missiles. PoM seems like the most blatant “Yeah, sure… we can PvP!” spell in our kit. Give it some use outside of preventing AB from getting kicked. There’s our mobility.
That would be cool. Presence of Mind to make Arcane Missiles more mobile. What would be even cooler is if Presence of Mind also gave us 3 procs of Clearcasting.
Make it happen Blizzard LOL you don’t care and it wont. Peace out.