So with the tier 3 set, you’re nuking mages damage by THIRTY TWO…32 percent? Then youre getting rid of the evo 2 min cd as well and change it to Living bomb which is basically pointless? Come on Blizz. Mage for prog in the next phase are almost completely useless now outside of a buff. I dont post much on the forums, but holy smokes what an awful change.
Thats only moving into the next phase because, hopefully, that the original bonuses were so strong that stacking them with the new bonuses would make them insane.
Kinda like stacking of certain tier bonuses with pally tiers. 
because they want you to respec healer so you can get that 6pc barkskin with extra steps.
Changing your 4p bonus at the very end of the phase after people paid 300+ gold per piece is CRAZY. I would be absolutely livid if I was a mage player.
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Im not much of a sweat lord anymore, im still going to get my tier 3 cause thats my favorite set. Not gonna let blizz ruin it. Our damage will suck regardless with this evo nerf to the ground.
Oh Im not happy, but tbh alot of mages werent liking being tied to Evo for another phase
That’s the worst part. We still have to evo, AND now the damage on it isnt even that good!
It’s more about the blatant lack of respect by totally rewriting the gear set that people spent the last several weeks spending their gold and time building up.
Only thing that modern blizzard is consistent with is not respecting the player’s time and effort.
Fair, but how else would you change it? Leaving as is is basically saying you will always use these 2 set bonuses…forever.
Its just crazy to me how bad this is, it has to be an early april fools joke.
Not even sure what to say, went from bad to worst …
I would much rather have base abilites buffed rather than relying on evocation or other short term buffs to be on par with the other classes. As a Mage you should welcome this change and see what they will change to keep our damage in line with other classes
It’s pure cope to assume that a massive nerf will be accompanied by any sort of buff.
Be glad you don’t have to go 6/2 for the PRIVILEGE of an evo buff with an 8min CD or worse, 4/4 and not being able to enjoy your new 6p.
The nerf to t3 was literally paired with gigantic buffs to 3.5
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So the gear that you spent the last 2 months investing your time and gold into building has been gutted in order to force you back onto the gearing treadmill, just to force you into buying another extremely expensive tier set.
well there you go
They are doing major changes on an almost daily basis to many set bonuses. That tells me they are trying to figure out what works. Try to stay a little more patient than a 5 year old and we’ll get through this
Totally reasonable to experiment on your paying customers because you are clueless.
The SoD devs have made it a habit of making drastic changes or outright deleting items that payers have already put in the time gold and effort to obtain.
Usually due entirely to abject incompetence on the end of the dev team, deleting the non-unique wild offering trinket that everyone farmed in p3 for example.
LOL. show me the Arc/Frost spec “gigantic buffs” on the 3.5 bonuses.
In their first attempt, they seemed okay with giving mages a flat 60% damage increase. I’m sure this was after much testing to make sure it is balanced. So, what part of the tier 3.5/alternate reality t4 set makes up for that?
And nerfing previous tiers to make the next tier look better is an awful strategy. Fix the buff, so it falls off if you take off the gear, and make the next tier actually better so it’s exciting to get. Some players will still want to progress through Naxx, and they’ll never be as strong as mages are now, because of the random nerf.
It’s like arcane mages. They’re getting baseline nerfs, so anyone who isn’t tier 3.5 geared suffers. It’s a horrible idea.