Mages, where did you go?

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I’ve been trying to recruit a mage for like a month and everyone has been rerolling off mages. Why? = (

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  • Little survival skills
  • Way too squishy even for a Mage
  • Doing the PvE content as a Mage is punishment
  • Having to eat/heal when solo after every encounter…
  • Other classes do what we want and better
  • Spell bloat and for what?
  • Rune of Power…
  • We all don’t want to just play frost but feels like it’s the only way to maybe survive PvE.
  • You ever tried to handle a Fyrakk assault with flames :fire: coming down everywhere and mobs around every corner as a Mage? Yeah….no.

Warlock is where it’s at.

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Cuz i haven’t leveled up my level 60 mage yet, i’ll get around to it soon.

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Leveling a Mage is torture.

They don’t even get a tanking pet for Soloing. So they’re screwed.

Destruction Warlock hits harder, has a far easier rotation, brings more to the table, and has pets.

Why play a fragile Mage when Warlock is just plain better in all content?

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Unfortunate.

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Right here.

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Because they’re a shadow of their former self.

  • Personally I use to love frost mage because they had a frost elemental pet. But now it’s meta to use ‘Lonely Winter’ (Stronger to not have one) so that satisfaction is out the window.
  • Fire doesn’t feel as strong as it should be. There, I said it.
  • As for Arcane - For a specialisation that is meant to emphasise tapping into the limitless powers of the Arcane and the heart of ‘Magic’ – It’s rather limited, mundane and visually unappealing to me, personally.
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That Elemental does 0 damage, its abilities are garbage, and it doesn’t even have a taunt.

So it cannot heal.

It has trash utility.

It has garbage damage.

And it cannot even Taunt or Tank.

Blizzard has butchered it.

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That’s what I mean. I enjoy the aesthetic and appeal of it – But it sucks.
Instead of giving mage a meta talent to ditch it, which most will take – They should honestly buff the living shizzle out of it that makes it a equal to the power of ‘Lonely Winter’.

Heck, even if they have a selectable talent on the same talent choice of ‘Lonely Winter’ where you can choose that, or ‘Primal Waters’ where your pet is buffed insanely and it’s relatively the same damage (or at least very slightly less) – So that way it’s an equal choice, and those who enjoy having the pet can do so alongside those who do not.

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Because all mage specs are currently feel terrible to play

Thankfully 10.1.5 will rework mages in bunch of great ways, so expect them to return

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If that Elemental could Tank/taunt and be healed easily, then it would be godtier for soloing.

Blizzard forgot that Kiting is bad in modern WoW due to mob density, mobs ignoring CC, and the such.

Hell, that new Cavern zone is basically Hardcore mode for Mages.

Kiting blows too when Mages must stop to cast and what does that amount to? Way more effort, danger, and time. Meanwhile that Fury Warrior going Zug Zug nonstop or that Warlock and Hunter are casually blowing things up while safely behind their pets.

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Honestly the last time I remember Arcane being awing was…maybe MoP? It’s such a faded memory now but it was seeing them buildup to launch a barrage of massive missiles at a target. It wasn’t something every other class could do or hope to do. Now? Well…they seem like over-exaggerated sparklers

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I deleted both my mages and swore them off.
Locks are cooler and my shaman is a healer with lust.

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They had a moment of awe in Legion with the TW legendary. The arcane only NH runs with TW going nonstop was… Potato frying.

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Honestly, buffing the Elemental via talent choice of –

— Would be 1 fix, but another could be giving your elemental a talent tree for either damage or tanking! Make them healable via casting frostbolt on your elemental.

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RIP lol. Maybe Blizzard can give us a scroll.