P2 mage felt great… Idk how its turned into this. Plenty of things that could have been done to “fix” what has happened with p3 mage, and i personally replied/posted to your Twitter, Aggrend, on the last “send feedback” post, just to get no response or acknowledgment. I’m posting this completely aware that it most likely won’t even be looked at by the devs, but i’d be upset with myself to not attempt one last time to fix mage before i main swap. That all being said: Mage feels bad for multiple reasons. I’m very surprised someone made the hot streak move, and thankful as well, because that was on my list of things that need to be changed to fix mage. So good job there. As for Hot Streak functionality, if FFB is not added to Hot Streaks proc then it’s still going to be an issue. Before knowing the numbers, it’s not going to be played because ffb benefitting from both, ignite and ice shards, AND scorch and Winters Chill, makes it highly unlikely that fireball spam with overheat would be higher dps. Which just leaves Hot streak dead. Without adding damage to fireball directly or adding things to fire to increase the damage output, everyone will be stuck playing ffb bot again. Now, as for things that could be added to increase enjoyment level of fire as well as throughput, these are my suggestions:
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Retail combustion/Cata combustion
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SKB in its current retail iteration - caveat here would be having a more retail like combustion
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Searing touch scorch talent from retail - Scorch execute
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Add a charge to fire blast, giving it a max of 2 charges - this allows for it to not feel awful sitting on fire blast cd waiting for a fireball crit
I cant imagine these changes being too difficult to implement, nor are they game breaking or over the top for mage dps. They’ve been staples of mage since they were implemented in live versions of the game. I’m not advocating for retail mage either, but there are aspects of fire mage that have become very much ingrained in what feels good about playing that class and spec.
All that said, i hope this post gets read and it gives us mage players a thread to discuss what we want to see changed for p4 and what can improve our class!
Also, 6pc tier bonus is absolutely awful. PLEASE OH PLEASE do not let that be what goes live. You created several great tier bonuses for the other classes, please put whatever thought and care into our bonus that you did theirs. Please.