ya i think blizz just likes to screw over mages hardcore in SoD…like all yall have is living bomb that poses any threat at all. Might be because yall so good in og vanilla
The real problem is premades… fix that and BG’s are pretty balanced. During the early part of the day on friday the BG’s were almost all pug v pug. Starting Friday night onwards, its full of a ton of premades or partial premades and very rarely premade-v-premade. When the BG teams are coordinated on voice comms, even if its only 5 of the 15, they are incredibly hard to counter if they are even half competent.
More people suffer at the hands of premades than people who do them, so there is no point in pairing premade vs pug. This is simple to fix, don’t allow groups to que in random BG’s or have a separate que for groups.
Is there a hidden crit reduction portion on this one? Noticing drastically reduced crit chance, despite having almost 15% crit just from two talents and gear, excluding another 10% from runes which is generally up too.
Sitting at 10% crit chance over an extended BG looking at the meters and abilities. It should be closer to 25%…
In my gear on this mage. That was my FROSTFIRE BOLT damage BEFORE any % reduction. So how come people said they were dying so fast? Absolute trolls on here I swear (not you just saying in general)
my experience in this on AB now is that fights just become straight up sloughs trying to get kills to beat a respawn. still feels terrible. better then last week by far, but still terrible.
it could be worse, you could play on horde side and have even more of an uphill battle to take a flag before respawns because of the obvious advantage pally bubbles have to hold out for the respawns.
Uhh… yeah, but since they went from a flat DR to now a DR plus heal reduction I doubt they are going to go back and test a lower DR without the heal reduction.
I think they have concluded from the 50% DR they will need a healing reduction on top of a DR no matter what DR % they implement, which I don’t think is true.
Eh, horde have much better mana regen with sham rage. A lot of games I have played in AB as far as node control goes came down to which healers ran out of mana first, which happens a lot faster with the healing reduction. Having shamanistic rage is pretty huge.