Even with fire, which has a ton less CD management - mess up one rune/SKB and you’re screwed. I will say that we do better in higher keys / when things don’t die as quickly. But even if the stars align, I’m third on overall DPS unless everything is pulled specifically around me. Do I suck? Probably, but it doesn’t feel like it’s for lack of effort.
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I know the feeling. Learning mage currently, starting with Arcane. But mained Resto. Looking for a bit of flare/flavor 
5% damage increase to frostbolt and after you shimmer you leave a mirror image behind for 5 seconds 
It could be worse.
I recall one expansion where mages were unhappy and clamoring for changes. We finally got as our only change:
“Evocation has a new unique icon.”
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Yeah at this rate I’m just waiting for “Rune of Power now increases damage by 42%”
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“yo dawg, we heard you loud and clear, so we replaced time warp with an extra rune of power, so you can rune of power while you rune of power”
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Ray is terrible in pvp unless the people you are terminally 1300. It does the same damage as my evokers devestate its just an awful move.
If you want an example of bad design look at Feral Druid’s single target rotation.
Or look at any of the mage specs since they are also bad design.
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Haven’t you guys seen the patch note Mages got nothing! literally nothing, other players now calling us dogshi t. every class has updates but mages! that’s incredibly wrong, I main mage, I mage for 15 years now and that’s what I enjoy. it’s really frustrating to be pushed to play other classes. it shouldn’t be so hard to listen to the customers and make some changes !! a company as big as Blizz cant get a mage developer… that’s nonsense!
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You just queue up for a bunch of them at once, it does not take 40 mins to get a group unless you’re sitting there waiting for individual invites
Let see if can get a viable play style that do not revolve around Rune of Power. It is a play style just not one I like
Wait what? Where did you get out of my post I queue up for one at a time? Seriously. I’ve queued up for a bunch all the time. And yes it has taken me 40 minutes to get into a M+, I stated the maximum time I’ve waited but it hasn’t been uncommon to take 25 minutes or more for me to get into an M+ .
Compared to Shadowlands where I might have waited 10 minutes getting into a group. There is a big difference this expansion in time it takes to get into an M+ this expansion.
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They should at least buff some underused talents just for fun, make [Rigid Ice] like the Grisly Icicle lego in SL, loved being able to beat rogues 1v1 cause i ran a crazy lego.
Grisly Icicle
Runecarving Power
Your spells no longer break Frost Nova, and enemies damaged by Frost Nova take 15% increased damage from your Fire and Arcane spells for 8 sec.
Bring the Dragons Breath CD back down to 30s, since cc is basically nerfed 20% this season anyways.
Make Shifting Power movement baseline so don’t have to icy Floes it using 2 gcds or keystrokes.
Flow of Time should lower 2.5s per charge down to 10s
Triple Tempest Barrier and Diverted Energy healing, so it might be usable.
Make MIrror Images have 200k health and not all 3 die instantly. if not just make i a 45k heal and not even call it images.
Make Water Elemental have a auto attack function so you can sick em on rogues to keep them in combat.
Buff Frostbolt in PvP, right now its only cast for procs, can hit for as little as 4k.
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