Keep buffing Living Bomb. Keep buffing Flamestrike. I have no problem with FS in M+. I don’t mind it…but what am I supposed to do on Tyrannical week, and raids?
The old ignite build doesn’t work like it used to, so you don’t have the same single target dps, nor ignite damage, which is fine. But, Flamestrike being the only option in M+, leaves no way for me to do boss damage anywhere. Single Target Raid damage, is good enough to get by, but M+ isn’t even an option. Just kicked from groups, not invited to guild group, it isn’t playable.
I don’t want to be top tier dps like it used to be…but I HAVE to be able to do boss damage if you want me to use this Flamestrike and Lit Fuse build…which we can’t.
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We have to keep speaking up. Frost mage is below fire mage in some raids now. The only mage class that isn’t trolling is sunfury arcane
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Ive been finding just the opposite the aoe damage is pretty terrible, boss damage is just ok def needs a few more buffs.
The buffs coming tomorrow will help with that, but not with the ability to damage a boss. No shot of getting into M+.
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We kinda have to pick between [bad single + no AoE] or [no single + ok AoE].
It’s actually an easy choice: pick Arcane
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Yeah, the design philosophy is mind boggling to me. It seems like they are trying to leave Sunfury’s talents alone while fixing balance with changes to Fire/Arcane. They need to balance Fire/Frost/Arcane BEFORE hero talents and then adjust proc rates and strength provided by the hero talents. But, that’s all stuff that should have been done in Beta testing…
I think a lot of the reason Arcane is so ahead is because Living Bomb was so good in Beta and dominated M+ with decent raid numbers. Then they nerfed Living Bomb AS IT WENT LIVE with 2 NERFS THAT WERE MULTIPLICATIVE (3 if you count Frostfire’s proc getting its damage cut in half), which are both insane moves from a balance standpoint. I could forgive the change as it went live since it was in pre-patch IF they didn’t realize how hard the nerfs were gonna sandbag Fire, but multiplication is like third grade level math man…
I’ve been playing for 18 years…The game has been there through 2 kids, a marriage, a divorce, a career path change, two promotions, buying and selling of 2 houses, with rentals in between, to where I’m now at a demanding career trying to set myself up for the future of myself, but also now finally looking into my immediate future.
There was a time where playing, learning, and switching between classes was something that I could do, something that I would be HAPPY to do. That time has come and gone. It’s not an option any longer.
I still play as hard as I can, push as hard as I can, Heroic Raid then dabble in Mythic as hard as I can. Life simply does not allow me to learn new classes, specs, devote hours on end at the training dummy. I’m not as quick and savvy as the young bucks who can just pick it up. I’m just not able to any longer.
There will be a day when the game doesn’t love you back my dude…and when that day comes, I hope you can still enjoy it somehow.
The easy choice isn’t to pick Arcane…the only choice is to not play any longer. And I KNOW that you don’t care…but I do…
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Just kicked from groups, not invited to guild group, it isn’t playable.
Please. That never happened.
I’ve been playing for 18 years…The game has been there through 2 kids, a marriage, a divorce, a career path change, two promotions, buying and selling of 2 houses, with rentals in between, to where I’m now at a demanding career trying to set myself up for the future of myself, but also now finally looking into my immediate future.
There was a time where playing, learning, and switching between classes was something that I could do, something that I would be HAPPY to do. That time has come and gone. It’s not an option any longer.
Blizzard can’t fix this via a patch.
The easy choice isn’t to pick Arcane…the only choice is to not play any longer. And I KNOW that you don’t care…but I do…
Yeah, pick Arcane. You have 3 damage specs and sometimes one is more competitive than the others.
Not every class has the option to do ranged dps from 3 different specs.
So, Arcane for PvE and Frost for Arena. With enough of the seasonal mage crying I am sure Fire will be topping charts in no time because the holy trinity (Warrior, Mage, Priest) plus flavor of the month always ends up setting the baseline.
Fire needs an overhaul.
Outside combustion it’s just lame and doesn’t do damage.
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