The only reality here is that they’re a conglomerate driven exclusively by desire to earn more money.
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I’d be concerned if they weren’t.
As far as forum trolls go, you’re a fairly weak one.
Ah yes, anybody who isn’t adding to the echo chamber is trolling.
Classic level 10 forum alt take.
No, constructive criticism or actual opinions on the topic are always welcome.
You, however, are straight up trolling / derailing the thread.
It’s a good thing you don’t decide what is an opinion and what isn’t then.
Well we might be lucky enough that you are incapable of forming an opinion about the topic, but I doubt that’s the case.
Instead you chose to divert the burning issue at hand to this poor multimillion dollar company’s employment problems.
Blizzard built tuning knobs into the classes, though. They not only can modify specific spell/talent values, they can also utilize the spec auras as tuning knobs.
This isn’t a “go play another game and quit whining lol” angle, either. The biggest problems people have had with class changes for Mage in TWW aren’t strictly numbers (though it feels awful to get knocked into below average territory while watching other arguably stronger things remain strong), but more in the realm of gameplay.
Arcane got talent changes that run counter to the intended relative simplification and streamlining of their problematic clunk gameplay from Shadowlands/DF. They made it better on launch, and now the spec is regressing again. As far as can be seen, these changes weren’t made to make the spec feel better or simply tune Arcane down (again, auras exist), and simply had a negative impact on the gameplay of the spec.
Frost feels like it’s inching towards the DND Wizard “I cast fireball!” meme, except not in a good way. Frostbolt needs to be a compelling button to press when you have no other procs or necessary things to press, but loading it up with things reduces other priorities and eventually overrides them. There’s a balance to strike there and I feel like that balance is sliding in the wrong direction.
These aren’t passive changes to the spec’s damage. These were active changes to talents to make the spec feel less fluid to play. You’re saying Blizzard has no resources to adjust or fine-tune specs, but they evidently had enough resources to mess with Arcane’s playstyle. As far as I can tell, the changes made to its playstyle weren’t changes anybody asked for. So why?
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The probable reason for “radio silence” is that they’re terrified / running a authoritarian philosophy of doing any tuning during MDI.
Saying this out loud would cause an outrage, just as much as the competitors/streamers would ridicule them if any balance shifts mid-tournament.
Spineless, as usual.
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If that’s really the reason then it’s truly inexcusable. They can’t railroad the entire playerbase just to cater to a handful of streamers and their silly tournament.
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such a dumb way to balance the game too, I doubt a slight ST buff would push fire into the MDI meta
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Another reset and nothing LOL. It sucks but i enjoy playing fire.
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They do this all the time… They balance off of mythic raiding or m+ tournament or off of pvp.
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My experience with fire mage is super out of date (OG Cata, lol…) but Living Bomb was a strong factor in making me shelve the spec. Having to interrupt my flow of hard casts every 12 sec just to reapply a DoT didn’t feel good.
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This is why humanity is in desperate need of a reboot. Of course it’ll just turn out the same way all over again.
LB is now a passive and gets applied by fire blast. 1/3rd of the current talent tree is based around living bomb talents. All it does is passively aoe things and spread like crazy if you have all the talents. Super boring game play wise, no optimal way to play around it, it just passively cleaves things like ignite already does…and the trigger for the cleave is fire blast, just like ignite. I don’t know what they were thinking with it. It’s basically ignite with a different graphic but ramps faster.
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I think Blizzard needs to figure out the direction they want to take the class system. Mages are pure DPS losing to tanks in that role. Blizzard has to rethink their classes system. If they want tanks to be tanks, then lower their DPS to drastic numbers and in turn beef up their survivability.
We have the ability to switch between specs with a click of a button. There is no reason to put pure dps classes on the bottom. Should they want to mix and match class roles, then so be it, make them weak in all areas. While making pure dps specs top of the charts. Perhaps this is exactly what they are aiming for and it’s just a matter of incompetents? Either way, the pure DPS classes are lacking in the game play of DPS. They are exchanging them for style and dazzle. It’s just more smoke and mirrors to look pretty.
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Lol. Best to ignore fools like this. Anyone who resorts to the same ole “if you dont like it, leave!” against legit and obvious problems is a troll to be repoted. These forums dont need more stupid toxic positiviy contrarians.
This is all it comes down to really. Not just mages either. Blizz takes AGES to make the simplest of decisions and the entire game suffers for it. They dont need excuse makers, they need to actually communicate and take action in a timely manner.
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You must not have played HoTS in its heyday when champs were buffed/nerfed not by how they were played in regular games, but by how they were played during HGC.
As for being all quiet on the front, as an assassin rogue player, I can personally tell you, I didn’t know wtf deathstalker was going to have until maybe, maybe, 3-4 weeks before TWW. The whole quiet thing has been Blizzards MO since Ghostcrawler left. That man kept everyone in the loop, regardless if you loved him or hated him.
Been waiting for weeks for fire to be a viable spec. I tried frost and arcane, they’re both boring. Un subbing until next big patch.
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