Mage PvP feels like we're being griefed

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Hello,

A lot of you had seen my original Mage PvP feels bad post, and many of those of you who saw it showed your support.

It is with great sorrow that I am here to say that I genuinely believe it has completely and entirely fallen on deaf ears when it comes to mage PvP in SoD. Not only have we not been even minutely buffed to bring us in line with every other class in the game for PvP (or given the illusion of), but they also nerfed us by proxy because they nerfed the ZG 5-set which was basically mandatory to do a modicum of relevant damage in PvP.

A 15% nerf on the PvE gear we basically HAVE TO wear to do decent damage in PvP and then not buffing our actual abilities to make up for that is pretty inexcusable at this point and very tone deaf.

Mages are now basically indefinitely locked into a gameplay loop in PvP that sees us only as CC-bots and half-baked healers (ironic because the heal spec they designed specifically for SoD isn’t worth a heck anyways by comparison to all other healers).

Don’t get me wrong – I am NOT poo-poo’ing on the devs with this post for SoD as a whole. I think for what SoD is they have done a great job when it comes to PvE content. The problem is they are entirely ignoring PvP, and PvP is half of the game when it comes to classic content. PvP is NOT a mini-game in classic like it is in retail. PvP is literally 50% of the game in classic, including SoD.

I know it will mean absolutely nothing to most of you, but I am now declaring myself as merely a mediocre raid-logger at this point. I tried for a long time to huff the copium™ and drink the hopium™ that they’d announce some great changes for mage PvP in SoD, but alas it appears that there is none in sight and that we shouldn’t expect any for the remainder of SoD.

I am not going to make any more posts about SoD mage PvP after this one. I will advocate for those of you who choose to from time to time though when I get on the forums here and there. At this point though, SoD is going to remain a strictly PvE-only mode for me and I will be spending more of my time in the Classic Fresh progression realm where I know that mage PvP isn’t fruitless. To all of you who supported my endeavors, Thank You. For those of you who were telling me all along to give up, you were right.

I wish you all the best, and I hope to continue to see some of you in-game on the nights I raid like I have in the past!

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you are being griefed by the devs, yes :expressionless:
join us in fresh, friend. say goodbye to SoD.

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Nah that sounds pretty boaring.

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Ok DeAtH kNiGhT :expressionless:

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That’s right the death knight has spoken.

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Hard facts lol. Absolutely no interest in fresh. One button auto attack rotations and playing in MC and Onyxia for a few months when we’ve been doing that for the last several months now? Naw I’m good lmfao.

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The necessary changes has been said repeatedly on this forum and I will continue to repeat.

Remove Spellfrost bolt damage bonus from ZG 5-set and make it baseline. Congratulations, a 2.5s cast now hits for 800 instead of 500. and it should increase in range with the range talent together with ice lance. 30 yards is too limiting. Spell pushback on SFB should also be added to the imp missiles talent like Arcane blast.

Ice lance needs to scale with SP or increase the damage substantially.

Regeneration needs to be a baseline ability. It will never be used and have never been used since p1.

Ice barrier should also increase with SP. thats about 450 more absorb with PvP gear. That is not too much to ask.

Frozen Orb - the easiest ability to dodge in PvP oh no guys here comes a blue ball 5 mph at us. Increase the speed, increase the aoe range and add a guaranteed Brain freeze procc when hitting an enemy the first time.

Living Flame must spawn on target like ALL other DoT’s?? I used one Living Flame in P2 and it is still chasing the enemy at 5 mph.

Arcane barrage is literally the main dps for an arcane or frost mage in PvP. An instant cast every 3 sec that deals about 500 damage. I should not have to choose between Arcane barrage or Frozen Orb in PvP. One instant cast medium dps vs one unreliable orb. One of them needs to be a base ability.