Remove one of the most iconic abilities that Legion brought when the spec was peak fun?
Smoking a bit too much felweed there.
Tbh I believe most hardcore Fire Mages dislike Phoenix Flames since it’s a worse Fire Blast in the sense that it has a GCD and has weird interactions with travel time.
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And if it gets removed, you only get less hot streaks with nothing to replace it, so why not advocate for a projectile speed increase over removal?
I like shifting power as arcane. Its one of the only “major” cooldowns I actually have to think about when to press it. Sure its a bit annoying at times, but it adds another layer to the spec which I enjoy
I like shifting power, it’s a very “unique” kinda of vibe, being able to shave off seconds of your entire cd spells with a channeling vibe is cool.
Except it’s not unique at all lol most classes have these kinda mechanics now, most of them have a “use your bread and butter spells and they’ll do that for you”. Which is…good and bad. Because sometimes you don’t have a target to force your cd reductions as much, so shifting has that going for it.
The dps element of it is very trivial imo, I wouldn’t really play around using to “fill the dps gap”.
Theme wise I really like it tbh, channeling magic is peak caster fantasy…don’t get the light bulb reference lol.
I think Aesthetically, the spell effect should match the spec you are playing.
For what it does, I just wish we could channel it on the move, even at a walking speed.
Why not just blink while casting?
Which is 99% the value of that spell. No one cares about the damage component and honestly its should just be removed.
It should work similar to Aug Evoker’s Time Skip, which I think is a much better implementation of such a spell.
Rename it from Shifting Power to Shifting Reality, Time Shift, or Alter Reality. Mages already have some cool “time” / arcane spells that honestly are in the same realm as bronze evoker magic.
Various reasons… maybe blink is on a cooldown or maybe it wouldn’t be good to go that far.
I suppose there’s Ice Floes for that, I always forget that it exists since I almost always pick Shimmer.
No, take the two phoenix flame charges and put them in fire blast so we get 5 charges.
It’s a broken record but remove the 8 living bomb talents and stop trying to make fire mage have aoe options. I’m pretty sure everyone likes fire when the single target spec is the m+ spec as well.
Shifting power is definitely a bad ability. I desperately want damage taken out of combustion. Or keep it the same combustion but make it a 5 minute cooldown which will FORCE them to make fireball and pyroblast stronger.
Meh. I like the spell. I’d rather the spell NOT do damage so it won’t break people out of poly.
great for getting stealthies in pvp