Only 1 blink even if we spec into shimmer? I feel shimmer should be merged into blink so we can get out of stuns and cast it while casting if we only have 1 charge and replaced the talent with deep freeze!
Deep freeze still not back? With only 1 blink we need it now more than ever!
Frost ward and fire ward instead of mage ward or just making our shields more powerful?
Shields should be unpurgeable if we are only getting 1 blink.
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Also don’t forget a lot of what makes fire mages so effective right now are going away in Shadowlands.
- No more workshop bracers
- No more lucid dreams essence
- I think Blaster Master azerite is also going away.
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The rework of our talents and such is no wear near complete… its only just starting … then again this is why i level a bunch of toons exp near the end of a x pac so that if 1 is complete dumpster fire i got others to change to in the new x pac. For shadow lands im thinking ill level my mage and my dk asap right at the start im sure out of 2 toons and 6 specs somthing will work.
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I’m keeping an eye melee right now. If we don’t see some sort of movement nerf for melee then I’ll def be rolling melee in SL.
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I’d say it’s probably a bit too early to assume something like this for mages. Generally something like this is always said every expansion but never turns out to be all that true.
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I’d trade alter time for 2 shimmer charges, and Frost/Fire Ward for Cone of Cold in fire spec.
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Blizzard already said there isn’t anymore “big” class changes happening. What’s in right now, is pretty much final other than numbers tweaking. Class feedback is extremely important right now.
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Frost and fire ward are the most funny and such an obsolete spells it’s funny they brought it back like it will make a difference or enhance gameplay somehow.
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And with a simple change, finally the skilled mages will shine more while those face rolling will come to the forum to type in anger.
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They could have small uses in PvP, but I agree for the most part, they’re pretty pointless
They made sense when fire and arcane didn’t have access to barrier. Now that each spec has its own massive shield, there’s no reason for wards
They could’ve made it a spell ward that just absorbs magic damage. That would’ve been far more useful.
Having only fire and frost just makes the ability require 2 buttons instead of one, and only provides a slight use against very specific enemies. Most mages will just press barrier and forget wards exist
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What change is this? The two charges to shimmer and displacement? Because if so, how is that different then two rolls and transcendence.
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#truth lol
first of all you’re not even posting on your main and calling people out LOL, secondly the top mages in the world said they will reroll if this is how mages are going to be go troll somewhere else kid.
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Yeah don’t forget it’s still early days, and pvp talents haven’t really been touched so I’m assuming the blink nerf will be for pve only while pvp’ers will have access to a double shimmer talent.
But I agree they haven’t given us a lot of hope by first nerfing us when the only reason specs like fire are viable right now is due to essences and gimmick mechagon bracers, we will be going into SL without those so they will need to do something drastic to compensate.
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displacement is getting removed completely and shimmer will only be 1 charge
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It’s kind of exciting to see how they will buff mages though, it’s impossible they will leave us how we are right now, huge nerfs with nothing to compensate.
Imo the double shimmer with displacement was kind of overkill, alter time will serve somewhat as a displacement type spell and like I said in a previous post I’m sure for pvp they will add a talent that allows two uses of shimmer… I’d even be happy to lose gpyro for it
Ion said in his interview with Sloot that there aren’t really any more big changes coming to classes. Or at least planned. Just numbers tuning. So don’t hold your breath.
Give feed back now.
Literally the first question Sloot asked:
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“big changes” is subjective, my interpretation is there won’t be any more core mechanic changes or revamps. The stuff we’re discussing doesn’t fit under that, e.g. they make fire blast recharge faster, they give us one extra charge of shimmer, they make another spell baseline such as phoenix flames etc.
But I agree, we definitely should be giving as much feedback now as possible so at launch we don’t have scuffed mages.
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A the famous reply that means nothing, often used by someone who doesn’t have any valid objections… which in your case you don’t.
" Top mages saying they will reroll " Good one. The good old mage mains will remain, because that change is making it go the same it was before legion…
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Arcane Intellect reduced from 10% to 5%…WTF???
Are priests and warrs getting similarly nerfed?