I’ll keep this short because frankly, Mage doesn’t deserve a long post. Blizzard certainly hasn’t put much effort into the class, so why should I?
Three specs. THREE damage specs. And every single one is bottom of the barrel in Mythic+. That’s not bad luck. That’s not “early season tuning.” It’s already 12.07 so apprently that is willful, sustained negligence from a balance team that has completely given up on an entire class.
Current 0.1% title according to raiderio is 4000ish score on US servers, and only two Mage players have reached that cutoff. Two.
And for normal players it’s even more humiliating. You queue as Mage and you get ignored. People would rather sit for ten extra minutes than invite a Mage. The community has already delivered its verdict on your class design — and it’s rejection. You did that, Blizzard. You made an entire class persona non grata in your own game.
The top M+ ladder is just DH, DK, and Evoker on repeat. Scroll through the top few hundred players and try to find a Mage. I’ll wait. It’s like a Where’s Waldo where Waldo doesn’t exist.
At this point, just delete Mage. Seriously. Put it out of its misery. Let all mage players make a choice deleting this game or choosing another class. Let’s not pretend this class is still playable. It would be kinder than whatever this is.
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I stopped playing this expansion but ultimately I think mage just didn’t survive the great pruning. We needed our defensive kit to offset having lower base health and armor. It’s never been the case that being “weaker” means you should do more damage, so what’s meant to be the equalizer? Losing invis DR, mirror images DR, and ice block heal in one fell swoop was frankly too much - one or more should be brought back (and I’d prefer it not be Mirror Images, which never made any sense whatsoever)
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Well written. I have played this mage since vanilla. This is the worst performance for a pure dps class, all specs, I have seen in any expansion. All three specs in B and C tier for m+ is awful. Its unfortunate to be forced in to a “meta” class to push past 17s. We can list our own keys, but groups see it as a carry. Cant get in to 17+ because we have the survivability of a wet paper towel (tough on healers). As far as dps in keys, we can proc and push all the shiny buttons available, but the numbers simply aren’t there to compete with other dps. The 3% dps increase to arcane will only put them on par with frost, a spec that is also under performing. Poor fire, nothing for them. Guess Ill bench the mage after 20 years and play the flavor of the week for season 2. You know the void mage, I mean devourer DH. Half the buttons to push as mage, but significantly higher dps. What a bummer. Just remove mages from the game, blizzard. Stop the false hope.