PTR Updated changes

Classes Mage
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[quote=“Linxy, post:8, topic:1945843, username:Linxy”]

  • MAGE
  • Ice Floes now allows you to cast Portal and Teleport spells while moving.
  • Hero Talents
    • Spellslinger
      • Volatile Magic now correctly benefits from damage bonuses.
    • Sunfury
      • Gravity Lapse’s visual effects have been updated.
      • Gravity Lapse target cap increased to 8 units and Gravity Lapse now stuns instead of rooting.
  • Arcane
    • Spellslinger
      • Arcane Splinter damage reduced by 10%.
      • Spellfrost Teachings chance to trigger reduced to 2% (was 5%).
      • Unerring Proficiency damage bonus increased to 20% (was 16%).
  • Frost
    • Spellslinger
      • Frost Splinter damage reduced by 10%.
      • Spellfrost Teachings chance to trigger reduced to 2.5% (was 5%).
      • Unerring Proficiency damage bonus increased to 5% (was 3%).
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Ah yeah, Spellslinger really needed a nerf. Way too overpowered, there are a whole 2 people who played it in mythic raid. Very overrepresented and deserving of a nerf.

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I don’t get the other nerfs, other than the comment about volatile magic working as it was supposed to, which maybe affected us up???

but this is unerring proficient change is getting it closer to what I want from that talent, still might not be enough to make it worth taking, but I’d at least try it :slight_smile:

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Have to wonder what the overarching plan is…Sunfury was outperforming on both specs, and now it just got a ranged stun while Spellslinger caught nerfs…meanwhile Frostfire Fire is so far behind everything else. Have to imagine there’s something larger in the works (e.g. some sort of Fire/Frostfire rework?)

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I doubt it. Blizzard loves to have a flavor of the month. It’s like that in seasons for Diablo as well. They want sunfury arcane to be that flavor. Season 2 there will be a big change. Doubt anything before that at this point

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cant believe that they didnt bother rework fire

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Yeah fire is in such a bad place and they are buffing talents people don’t care about

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Wonder if this getting fixed was enough to warrant the ss nerfs, otherwise I don’t see why. I guess the highest keys in the world are being done with frost and maybe they want to avoid yet another season where mage is the meta but this might not feel great for an average player, idk

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It definitely isn’t. Volatile Magic is currently 2-3% of damage. Even if they buffed it 100% it’d only be a 3% buff overall and still far behind Sunfury.

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Going to see if can cast it while falling to create a portal in mid-air, then mount up and fall into the portal to see if I can enter the portal.

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There was previous buffs to spellslinger for 11.0.5 I believe its really hard to tell. I want to see frostfire get some st buffs.