Ice mage on a pedestal while arcane and fire are once again, left in the dust

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Why does bliz do this, All mages are pretty good at the start of 10.2 suddenly with the DH rework (which honestly did nothing), fire mage and arcane mage received unplayable nerfs

arcane with nerfs to speed and TS which was the only survivability they had

and 60% of fire mages burst is gone now with glass canon nerf, i hit 70k fireballs and 90k scorches… weird

but now mage is hitting 130k ice lances, 400k ice bombs and 500k glacial spike, not to mention the bloody 1 mil dmg ice rays… they are busted.

i just want my chrono shift and old glass canon back, i feel like I’m either to slow as arcane or have the dmg of a spicy wet noodle fire

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This is the most exaggerated hyperbole thread ever. All mage specs are fine.

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You’re hard trolling lmao

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Be happy you have 1 playable specc every season for 20 years others have to reroll entire classes if their specc is weak

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Just play what you prefer…

Nobody is making you reroll and none of the mage specs are bad.

It’s a great time to be a mage.

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yep blizzard please NERF frost mages

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yea true but blizz kinda just out of the blue messed up two specs and buffed the hell out of the least fun one

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Low effort post

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It bothers me that you said ice mage

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i heard that frost bomb be hittin, might have to dust off the ole mage.

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eerm it bothers me you said ice mage, eermm :nerd_face:

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But they didn’t mess them up

Arcane is still more than fine and still kites extremely well

Fire did receive a net nerf iirc but it also made GC less punishing to both take and not take which makes the spec feel better to play plus even with the nerf the damage is still damn near S tier

You just don’t know what you’re doing friend

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idk what im doing either, i went form 80% winrate to 20% winrate after the changes, my burst feels like its absent and al round just horrible feeling

frost tho… frost does moe dmg in 4 seconds then fire can in a combust

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my friend have you tried enchanting your gear it might help your win rate

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Interesting.

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Frost damage does seem higher but idk if I’d go that far tbh

Frost also takes much more set up relative to just pressing combustion and doing a PvE rotation

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frost is literally - Precog>Icy Veins>ray>GS>commet>flurry and their dead
fire is- Fireball, Combust, pyro,FB,PF,pyro, rinse and repeat

they are both very simple and one does much more dmg than the other

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Precog doesn’t last all of RoF/GC combo so frosts go can be kicked plus you didn’t mention bomb which is doing nutty damage at the moment post buff

You spelling out the fire rotation makes it look like it’s on par with frost when it’s all instant casts lmao

The key word I used was “relative.” Of course it’s all simple, but frost certainly is relatively more difficult to get off compared to fire

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Fire is going to delete people even faster w 4 pc. Mage is in a great spot after hunters got slapped down some

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Arent you the same dude that was whining that he got arcane locked and couldnt cast blink so you /afk’ed a match lmfao

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