2 set - Reduces the duration of your Evocation by 50%, but its mana regeneration rate is increased by 100%. In addition, the Evocation effect from the Frostfire Regalia also stacks 100% faster.
-This set bonus on its own does next to nothing for a dps mage. Mana upkeep has not been a critical concern for quite some time now. Attaching a required functionality of needing Naxx tier to gain power feels out of place. The channel duration of evocation is a step in the right direction but still quite underwhelming for a “new” tier set.
4 set - Reduces the cooldown on your Frozen Orb Spell by 25 sec, increases the chance for Arcane Blast to trigger Missile Barrage by 10% and for Fireball and Frostbolt to trigger Missile Barrage by 5%, and reduces the cooldown on Fire Blast by 5 sec.
-The frozen orb CD is quite impactful for frost and will be heavily enjoyed. The arcane change feels like it is only directed to a mage healer taking dps tier or a typo by adding it. There is no support to making arcane a viable dps option. The 5 seconds off the fire blast CD is quite minimal in terms of power and player engagement/gameplay. This would be a good spot to give an option for better fire AOE, perhaps living bomb exploding on death or a way to spread our dots via pressing fire blast. This would also be a good spot to give a strong enough bonus to make arcane dps playable without breaking healer mage.
6 set - Increases the duration of your Icy Veins spell by 10 sec and reduces the cooldown of your Evocation by 2 min. (Zirene mentioned it should be a 6 minute reduction in the mage discord that needs to get updated)
-The duration increase to icy veins is quite boring that doesn’t change anything we are doing right now with a minimal amount of power increase. Slapping the naxx 4 set bonus onto the Scarlet Enclave 6 set is wild to just get reused for lack of a better idea.
Collectively as a fire mage we get Evocation channel time = 4 seconds instead of 12, 5 seconds off the fire blast CD, and 10 seconds to icy veins, none of this feels fun or very impactful for a new tier set.
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Wooh
FROST IS BACK BABY. NEVER LEFT. BUT ITS BACK!
Looking like the most disappointing tier in sod yet. Some other classes are getting pure gold. And mage is getting this wet fart.
what happened to all those fire aoe spells that just straight up suck rofl.
instant flamestrike on hot streak?
something that causes your living bomb to explode instantly?
range casted version of blast wave? blast wave
living flame? RIP.
DoT spreading?
sigh…
It’s wild how they ruined this set so fast.
Warrior’s changes today were that 2pc they flat out got 20% just more damage on heroic and cleave, it also hits an additional target (boring but hey damage is damage)
Then 4pc let’s them stack up to 100% increased damage while cleaving and ww.
Finally they get an end set that allows them to just WW their faces off while deep wounding
Why is it we asked for a shorter evocation we lose the damage buff
Our 4pc is great for frost and that’s it
6pc give us an evocation cd that we already had in Naxx and 10 seconds on a dps skill.
How is this comparable?
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its funny how all the warriors are complaining about how terrible their set is compared to everyone elses, but according to you it is good. blizzard cant win no matter what they do
I can see what Blizzard is trying to do with these tier bonuses. But they just can’t seem to figure out a good way to get themselves out of the corner they painted themselves into with the Naxx tier bonuses. And that makes Blizzard locked in on making sure we use T3.5 gear and not T3 gear by porting the Evo buffs to the T3.5 set.
With that being the case, here are some suggestions:
2 set: make Evo no longer a channeled spell, but a stacking buff that also stacks T3’s 2 set bonus. Keep the animation though. Would look cool running around with blue swirly’ s
4 set: Keep the FO spell reduction by 25. Have pyroblast crits cause your next flame strike to be instant cast. Your Arcane Missiles will hit additional targets based upon the number of debuffs from your Arcane Blast. This gives all the specs some Aoeish abilities.
6 set: Keep Evo CD reduction. Add something meaningful with some pizazz for this end tier set. Something like Rune of Power. But buff it with a 20 yd radius and be a party wide buff. We would get a cool ground animation and a nice little party buff.
I never said it was good, though I guess the way I wrote it it is implied.
The changes seemed to be flat out buffs compared to us having to give up damage so we can cast faster and a 4pc that only 1 spec of ours benefits. I dunno when the warriors in my guild posted with happy reactions I assumed the new changes were great for them.