I’m convinced they’ve outsourced their balancing. I truly am.
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They must have really been focused on Shifting Power’s icon updated.
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Which, not-ironically was the first thing I noticed when I logged on and was literally like “oh well, that’s kind of cool actually.”
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Same, i have no idea what to drop for aethervision. I’m thinking dematerialize, since the nerfs.
POM with aethervision and the leydrinker lane seem ok, giving them a test now.
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Also, just hit the dummies for a minute and all the drama aside, SpellSlinger was smoking hot! I do have a big smile on these changes, will need to figure out how to optimize it.
Our one new talent is very redundant to the 4-piece tier affect, but whatever. I get lots more clearcasting, and lots more full power barrages, so I hope to be slapping down content this week.
“May all your mages be Spell Slingers”
It’s kind hard not to think this was a knee jerk reaction to that article Wowhead posted yesterday with the infographic literally showing Sunfury at the top by 11%. And then lo and behold we get a 10% nerf out of the blue. Coincidentally that article has since been taken down.
You might be on to something with the “outsourcing” except it’s worse than that because they just wait for the community theorycrafters to figure out what’s good and then nerf it, hard. 
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its terrible - i have a huge drop
how are paladins and windwalkers not touched - those classes are blowing up mythic plus - this is incredibly bad
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PSA keep an eye out for Burst of Knowledge - Item - World of Warcraft
The ingame tooltip shows it at 801 per stack upto 20 - 16020 int and that is 3/6 hero
Last time we had something like this Moonlit Prism - Item - World of Warcraft every missile counted as a spell, so its stacked pretty quickly.
I don’t know if this one will, but i suspect it will.
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Holy dang! If missile counts you could just sink with the missile barrage and max it in like 2 seconds, then start spell slinging like a maniac. Where do we get this?
Its in the new time walking raid from Ambassador Flamelash. The raid also has a bullion type system, so everyone should get it.
For some reason on the relic key vendor it doesn’t show as a mage item, you can find it under “all”
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Aww, I had Burst of Knowledge back in Vanilla. It was the first max level trinket I got as a drop. I remember using it all the way until I got the Talisman of Ephemeral Power from MC. Would be nice if it made a comeback but I don’t see it being better than the Spymaster’s Web and it’s gonna be kinda awkward to run two on-use trinkets.
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Some us have not seen spymaster at all yet, so no worries there.
on dummys, i went from 1.6M on single target to 900k, and on aoe from 3.2M to 1.8M
edit: did an stonevault +10, i usually do 1.9M overall, did 1.1M
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Jesus! Those numbers are staggering. I knew it was going to be bad when I saw the last minute nerfs but that’s something else…
I hadn’t done anything besides messing around with the Anniversary Event stuff tonight but I decided to do a tier 11 delve to test things out and it was rough but double. If it’s really as bad as what I’ve seen people describe I am honestly glad I am pretty much done with this season, I am at 617 atm and 619 is my cutoff point because I have no time or desire to venture into Gilded Crest territory.
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Which is really odd because people have been suggesting to nerf spellfire spheres damage bonus and cascade since beta, but they opted to keep nerfing everything else instead, until… now.
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I got the LFR version, it does not stack with AM like moonlit prism did. I don’t see it being all that useful.
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Ahh, you’re breaking my heart, cause I was just starting to get interested in hunting it down (barely just got over to the 20th anniversary place and lookin at their stuff). There was a staff that looked interesting, it grants rando secondary stats at 3900 something instead of having secondary stats on it, which idk, might be a good one, unless it’s less than you could get otherwise.
It is absolutely wild that they apparently made class gameplay changes with disregard to how it effected damage balance, then were like “oops, now it’s too strong”.
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If you get it on hero track, it’s still pretty good for a free trinket. Hopefully bloodmallet will list it soon, I imagine it still makes it into A tier.
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f it. came back to play mage for fun. but u r ruining it blizzard. i m done. Unsubscribing.
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