Title says it all. It’s an annoying chore to play mage with a crutch central (RoP) talent that has to be used across all 3 specs. The measly 5% buffs across Fire and Frost for 10.0.5 is a simple, “we have no idea how to fix this class” issue - so let’s not even try, throw them a bone and shut them up.
That’s the reality folks. Go reroll something else if you care about class enjoyment, don’t waste your time on the mage class anymore. Blizzard doesn’t give a damn - they just don’t - or they would have at least a statement saying they are looking at the class mechanics and re-design. I’ve played mage for 20 years, the class is ruined. The real fire mages of DF are Evoker. That’s the truth.
They threw a 5% buff like we’re the bastard children of the available classes.
I can face smash ret paladin and out perform my mage with less effort who’s 10 ilvls higher with much more experience.
Mage is a chore, the class needs to be overhauled.
Nerf, RoP for IF to be a viable option. Increase our baseline damage.
The elitists who play and parse 80+% or higher and want to link logs - I don’t care about that, it’s not fun for the average player. Just be sure to link parses on your resume when looking for work - it will matter.
Effort versus dps. It’s far to busy and annoying to play mage to do mediocre dps when we wear cloth have no off spec and can’t self heal with no tank pet. We’re trash.
Bye.
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I still enjoy playing my frost mage and can do good damage,
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Want to make sure i’m not a nube?
I mean a lot of people will come here and be like “mage is fine, great to play and good damage” and they are still leveling.
So yea, I was curious if you actually played at 70. I dont disagree with you… mage is a fun class… but you have to admit when you see how much instant damage so many classes can put out with nearly 0 setup… it is a bit discouraging.
It looks like you don’t do any arena… You are probably smarter than me… I dont PVE at all… and TB very honest, if I only played mage in BG’s, I wouldnt really have any complaints about the class… But for some reason I kept doing what I apparently suck at (SS) and I have basically given up and stopped playing.
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I don’t take directions from rando’s in forums. Also I like cheeseburgers.
Rune is annoying to play around. I agree. But it’s also not crazy to plan your placement of it accordingly. Sure, sometimes you place it in what is a good spot that suddenly ceases to be a good spot. But ish happens my dudes.
Fire is not in a terrible place in raids. I can’t speak to pvp or m+ really because I don’t do a ton of those. But I’ve been raiding fire off and on so far and it’s only getting more competitive as time goes on.
So then how would you fix it?
Nerf RoP for IF to be a viable option. Increase our baseline damage.
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My idea is that for every second the mage is standing still you gain a % damage buff up to a cap of X%.
That way you are rewarded for being able to blink accurately and place yourself in advantageous spaces without being tied to a specific place. Could be fun.
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This is a bad idea. Mages have one of the most valuable damage profiles and this would neuter it making mage even worse.
Please elaborate on this valuable damage profile. Tell me how being mobile instead of being chained to ROP could be a detriment to it. If you’re talking peaks and valleys, there’s so many classes with the same profile.
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The best on demand burst in the game? Why do you think we perform so well on bosses like Eranog, Dathea, and Ras?
That’s a non-issue I care little about. The issue your changes bring is sustained damage vs. on demand high burst. When all a class offers is sustained damage, they are at the mercy of tuning. When a class can offer high demand burst, they will always be valuable for some fights that have damage amp phases or high priority adds, meaning tuning has little impact.
And which one is better than arcane mage currently?
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9129 posts. wow… maybe do something else in life.
I’m not going to entertain some bickering debate. My opinions are mine, I don’t care if you like them or not. 
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So you have absolutely no argument or rebuttal? Got it. Well, at least you made that easy for me.
Your opinion misaligns with your goal. Your “fix” to the class would be its actual funeral lol.
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Lol, you litterally don’t play the class…
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The fact that we have fingers of frost procs while the target is already winters chilled is horrible, not a good design. They need to change fingers of frost to make your next 2 frostbolts instant cast, stacking to 2,
So essentially 4 frostbolts that never expire like PoM, then you just spam frost bolt and flurry the whole game and icelance off winters chill. Either that or bring back glacial spike.
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But frostbolt damage is absolutely garbage?
I keep hearing people say “bring back glacial spike”… I have been away a few expansions… what do you mean by this? Currently my Glacial spikes are doing 180k crits.
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Best on demand damage? Maybe in PvE but not even close in RBG’s. And being chained to RoP is NOT a non issue. When you have a couple warriors cleaving you to death in an RBG, you either move or die. How about a DK gripping you out of your RoP circle? You like to talk but I don’t think you know what you are talking about.
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Why is RoP a crutch? Do you think you have to stand in the visual of it to get the buff?
And you just killed the class in mythic raiding. Good job. 