Frost mage is absolute garbage 1v1, and the fact that frost necro seems to be the only viable spec in pvp its fricking bonkers. I might be able to win more duels if I’m necro but still 1v1 frost mage is the king of losing duels.
Frost has been dead spec since Legion. 6 years. Its boring, uninspiring, RNGfest and just simply underwhelming. It lacks so many things. Don’t care about raid dps.
It’s not dead, not even in PvP this season. Just not good in 1v1, but when did Blizzard even care about 1v1 to begin woth?
I know its not dead but its nothing compared to how Frost was back in the days. 1v1 is the way to balance the game. But they don’t get it. They don’t want to get it.
In the past you could immediately tell who has played for years or months. Nowdays you need two weeks max if you have it in you or not.
Frost was good in 1v1 before. We were melee’s nightmare back in the day, when pvp was rock-paper-scissors.
Only feral druid was kinda impossible to beat because of shapeshifting. But now…?
As Sylvanas said, we are nothing!
You can beat other classes in 1v1 but you have to work twice as hard to do it.
It’s funny that so many people want the spec nerfed when we only really have one spec, which only works with one comp. I’m almost sure that we only look strong because of the destruction warlock. That’s why it’s nearly as good to go double lock. lol
Expect Mage overhauls in Dragonflight Alpha and Beta. We might get some good old CC back in form of Talents.
Legion… the destroyer of classes…
Paladins, Priests, and Mages… all a shell of what they once were.
arcane wants to have a word with you… feels terrible.
Every mage spec is rng now though. Sad times
Mage can do many comps… ever hear of rmp? lol god comp? I have a mage and yes it is extremely OP and its one of the few classes that can still do good dmg without CDs… I’m only 258 ilvl on my mage and I can do 80k dmg in 3 seconds while being immune to CC and interrupts
Frost works well only with Destruction, and if Destro is nerfed, Frost isn’t going to be as relevant. RMP isn’t played with Frost either, at least the vast majority of player don’t play it.
I also agree Frost can do damage without cooldowns, but Fire can’t.
Necro frost is good, they should bring the other specs up to par 1v1.
No, it isn’t.
Game should be balanced around 3v3 with 2v2 and 1v1 decently taken into account. If not, they would need to end 2v2 with first death like Solo Shuffle (so no possible 1v1s) and remove War Mode (which is often 1v1) to maintain a visibility of balance.