Instead of crappy defensive one. A four-man turret that deals real damage and not just 20% def with cosmetic effect
Polymorph is just useless outside of arena
Mass polymorph is mass useless
Slow&mass slow… I mean i play frost, everything i do is slow. I doubt it has much use even for nonfrost specs
Meteor for whatever reason does absolutely TINY damage and lowest on meter even in big pulls.
Glacial spike would be really fun to use, it crits for 140k with RoP on shatter. But since it eats our icicles which you’d rather use to proc fingers - there’s no reason to even use it in PVE
Comet storm looks cool and deal nice aoe damage, but it’s so far from everything in tree that just getting it severely damages your overall DPS. Swapping it with ice beam would help a lot in pve
For snowstorm talent to be useful - it needs 100% proc on blizzard, it takes AGES to get 30 stacks and without it cold of cone does literally negative damage
Ebonbolt is cool, but it’s really hard to cast anything in DF, too much stuff spawn directly under you and the alternative talent is just WAY WAY WAY better for ST
Elemental is just bad ability, alternative is much stronger, you don’t need that many novas anymore and he just stuck all the time
But overall i like mage and Frost spec specifically. It just needs a lot of tuning
P.S. Fire mage does such tiny damage it might aswell heal enemies
Meteor definitely needs a damage buff but the damage it does is shared by all targets in the impacted area so hitting more targets will not yield more damage (though the DoT will apply to all targets if they remain in the impact area). I personally don’t agree with that design and it’s very unintuitive but that’s how it’s always been.
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You got me with the title, wish Mirror image was an offensive and defensive ability. Would love for them to cast whatever I cast (maybe at reduced dmg obviously), but could make it an awesome burst to duplicate my spells.
haven’t played mage in shadowlands, but i think torghast had powers that made mirror images strong and make whole army of those
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You get all the good pve leggos from shadowlands basically built into the spec. You get icy veins which procs a rune of power. You can have AOE ability as well as reduces all your cds. You basically live with icy veins always on. You can have two lusts now again as well. Flurry procs comet storm. Orb can proc fingers once every what second or two now from talent? So far from my experience aside from buffing our AOE we are fine. My st damage as a 359 frost mage is really high compared to much better geared players . Almost forgot you get two ice blocks and two diff. Threat dropp spells with movement speed and a def. Boost to them in invis and greater invis. Having the 20 percent damage reduction and the agrro hold they have is plenty for us.
dear god why, it’s so stupid. Moonkins with their exploding mushrooms on lower CD completely destroy dps meter
Same reason why Balance Druids have a single target Astral Power spender as well as an AoE one when Arcane Mages only have one spender that’s trying to be both an ST nuke and an AoE/Cleave spell at the same time. Balance Druids are just a better designed spec. It’s really that simple.
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