- Developers’ notes: We’re redesigning Rondurmancy to lean into making your 3 orbs better, rather than giving you 5 orbs, to align more closely with the inspirations for Sunfury and reduce visual clutter on your character. We’re also uncapping Mana Cascade to match other “applications may overlap” effects.
You know what could be an excellent idea? To listen your community and let us hide this stupid spheres! Visual Cluster isn’t a problem if it’s optional!
I genuinely don’t understand the obstinance to removing those damn spheres. They’re universally disliked and people have been clamoring to have them removed since the moment they were first introduced. Whichever devs are obsessed with having random crap constantly floating around our characters’ heads need to knock it off. They even acknowledge that it’s nothing but visual clutter yet refuse to remote it, truly wild!
They let frost mage ice sickles hide out of combat, but we still have permanent orbs over our head for sunfury… I just don’t get it, would it really be so hard to make them not show up out of combat?
I think that capping them at 3 instead was a good decision. It’s a throwback to Kael’thas and fits nicely above my character, meanwhile 5 looked silly and out of place. They also look, at least in my opinion, a lot less intrusive than 5 spinning icicles.
That being said, I wouldn’t mind having the option to hide them even if I wouldn’t use it myself.
Except we actually have a transmog set that looks exactly like Kael’thas, orbs included. So if you have that set on (which why wouldn’t you if you want to RP as him) plus the Sunfury orbs on top of that it looks truly ridiculous.
Reducing the orbs down to 3 is an okay compromise, and it’s something a lot of people have suggested (myself included), but like you said there is absolutely no reason not to have an option to turn them off entirely.
Yes, the headpiece plus the orbs look weird, but I prefer the orbs themselves instead and can be used with other helmets.
I think it’s cool for the hero trees to encompass a certain theme and aesthetic and Sunfury does it best out of our 3 hero talents. I just wish it was better tuned and the node with bastardised Blast Wave / Dispel reworked entirely.
It isnt. It’s a 5m fix.
It’s not an hyperbole. It’s literally a 5m fix. All they have to do is add an conditional to check if character is in combat to show it.
We can do it on our clients, right now. Obviously it’s illegal, as it’s modding the files. The launcher won’t launch the modded version and the servers won’t let you play (and even if you manage to do so, you’d get banned). But it’s literally that simple.
I like them personally. they look neat. maybe 3 would be better than 5 though
I don’t when it’s not opcional.
I mean, it is. If you want to roleplay, you can just spec into the other hero tree instead. I’m not really against an option to hide it, but I don’t think it’s much of a problem especially after being reduced to 3 max spheres.
It’s not optional then, as you admitted it. To be able to choose between two things that a person dislikes isn’t being able to choose. At all.
I wouldn’t think anyone would complain about it if not for roleplaying issues. It’s not even close to being as distracting as the Icicles were, and if it indeed has to do with roleplay, you can just spec Frostfire temporarily. Idk, I really don’t think it’s a big deal, but like I said I’m not against more options.
Complaining about these ugly orbs has been quite common and I never saw anyone talking about roleplay (not that this isn’t an extremely valid reason to complain).
These orbs are ugly. They take space on the screen. They are visually fatiguing, specially for over long play sessions. They are useless, serving NO PROUPURSE AT ALL.
Although there are people who like them, they should be kept solely for those people. But I shouldn’t have to deal on my screen with something that I hate.
As I don’t. Since I’m not playing mage since they added those stupid orbs. Even though I played it for the majority of my WoW life. But I still love the class and I still want to be able to play it again.
I don’t want to play frost, nor arcane. I want to play fire and I don’t want to use frost spells on part of my rotation.
I choose fire for a reason. I like it. And I want to be able to play it without having a seizure if I stare at my character for 5m.
And this is clearly not a ME problem, as I thought it was on the start of the TWW. Some of the most popular topics on this forum are people complaining about the same thing as I am and asking for the same thing as I am asking for the same reasons as me.
If you don’t mind it, fine. If you want to roleplay as kaelthas, there were already in game a way for you to so (wich actually looks good, not like these ugly a*s png balls).
Yeah, I don’t get it either. I personally don’t mind the orbs but it seems like a pointless miss to just… not let people hide them. Like why half-ahh it. Mage is such a letdown for Midnight.
They made a set that lets us look like that, buried it in MOP Remix for a few people to get.
If I wanted to look like Kael’thas (I do!) I’d want that, for the Green Orbs, not the Orange/Purple ones.
nods in Oracle priest
Wdym, you don’t want the all seeing eye perpetually plastered to your forehead!? /s 
I love the glowy effect that interferes with my xmogs
And all the holy sparkles on all of your utility spells even while in shadow form, right, RIGHT? 
This is still a gods-damned thing?
JFC, Blizzard. You’ve had the ability to do this since Legion.
I don’t care if you like Kael’thas. Not all of us do. And pigeon-holed MC-wannabe specs ruin class fantasy flexibility.
Seriously, company’s just getting cringe-levels of brat syndrome…
Just make a new glyph you can apply to spellfire spheres to hide them out of combat, or permanently. I like them being there, doesn’t bother me, would actually bother me if they weren’t there.
Therefore, just like other spells people want to customize, glyph! I wish there were more glyphs, there aren’t enough options, too many people are the same.
To be honest, there should be more glyphs, they need a come back.
While we’re asking for things, can we get a fiery arcane orb for sunfury?