Latest PTR Changes Frostfire buffs and more

Classes Mage
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  • MAGE
    • Hero Talents
      • Frostfire
        • Frostfire Burst damage increased by 25%.
        • Frostfire Infusion damage increased by 50%.
        • Isothermic Core Meteor damage increased by 15%.
        • Isothermic Core Comet Storm damage increased by 25%.
      • Sunfury
        • Gravity Lapse cooldown increased to 40 seconds (was 30 seconds).
        • Meteorites are now summoned instantly.
    • Arcane
      • Arcane Missiles no longer consumes Ice Floes if you have Slipstream talented.
      • Spellslinger
        • Spellfrost Teachings procs now properly increases your Arcane Orb damage by 10% for 10 seconds.
    • Fire
      • All ability damage reduced by 3%.
      • Lit Fuse now has a 6% chance to trigger (was 4%).
      • Lit Fuse no longer highlights Fire Blast.
      • Lit Fuse is now displayed on the Personal Resource Display.
      • Explosive Ingenuity now increases Lit Fuse’s chance to trigger by 4% (was 3%).
      • Explosive Ingenuity now increases Living Bomb’s damage by 50% (was 25%).
      • Explosivo’s Living Bomb damage increase while in Combustion reduced to 30% (was 40%).
      • Sparking Cinders now triggers 3 times per minute (was 2).
      • Sparking Cinders damage bonus increased to 15% for Pyroblast and Flamestrike (was 10% for Pyroblast and 20% for Flamestrike).
      • Sunfury
        • Burden of Power now increases Pyroblast damage by 20% (was 15%).
        • Burden of Power now increases Flamestrike damage by 30% (was 60%).
        • Glorious Incandescence now highlights Fire Blast.

Long overdue buffs and some nice QoL changes, this patch can’t come soon enough!

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ONG finally. Frostfire will now actually be playable!

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Kind of sucks we have to wait until the end of the month though

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Yeah I don’t understand why they don’t just push out a lot of these changes as hotfixes instead of holding them back for the .5 patch.

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Especially Frostfire as it’s been kind of trash since BETA

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It’s gonna be like night and day when that patch finally drops. All the spec/hero combinations will feel so much smoother and better to play. I know people joke about it a lot but it really does feel like we’ve been playing a protracted Beta so far this expansion, lol.

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why is fire getting a 3% nerf on all abilities? i guess overall its still buffs considering the her o talents

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Not really sure but something weird has been going on with the logs this week because about a thousand Fire mages have been topping the charts in both Heroic and Mythic raid somehow, lol. It will probably end up being some obscure trinket interaction but looks like Fire will eat a preemptive nerf anyway.

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Sadly its a PVP nerf for an already struggling spec. We don’t play rightside talents or have pve trinkets :joy:

WP blizz

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Frostfire will probably still need a buff to ST as these are primarily AoE buffs.

The secondary problem with this tuning is that it further buffs abilities not on our mastery - that aspect needs to get resolved

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You want haste and crit for frostfire. I don’t think mastery is the problem. But I do think these will be great single target buffs to be honest.

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So frostfire gets a buff, but I was hoping for a more ST buff. I fear its still gonna lag behind the others. They still got some work to do

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This seems like more of hotfix type item, I don’t understand rolling it into next major patch when it’s a correction on something.

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To be honest, this expansion probably needed more time, but they knew they couldn’t delay it. I’m glad they didn’t, but I do low key feel like we have been playing a BETA version

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They’re also nerfing the proc chance to 2% in the patch so it’s not like it’ll be doing much of anything.

I don’t get why they are so reluctant to make Spellslinger Arcane viable, it’s so far behind Sunfury but there’s no significant buffs for it on the PTR and the only hot fixes have been nerfs.

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2%?? Really? I haven’t seen that but that is wildly low.

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Yeah, 2% a couple PTR builds ago. At this point they should just replace the talent.

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Won’t lie the 3% nerf while still trying to make Living Bomb happen is still annoying lol. Glad FF is getting some love but having gotten into the chill groove of Sunfury I’m not sure I want to go back to playing frantic whack-a-mole with 8 million procs per second.

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I feel like the Frostfire changes will be better for frost. Sunfury feels like it was build for fire mage

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It is definitely the trinkets. Even with the 3 percent ability nerf, fire is getting a big buff in hero talents. Especially, from the frostfire angle. I actually want to switch from frostfire (frost) to frostfire (fire) lol. So I can get in on that hypothermia play.