Hallelujah and rejoice!!!
Thank goodness that sorry ability is dust!!
As frost i had to press it after icy veins and mirror image and fire i had to press it after combust and hyperthermia.
Im so happy its gone, it was as bad as rune of power.
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Agreed. That ability was the definition of needless mandatory button bloat.
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gone the way of rune of power never (hopefully) to return.
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Such a waste of a cool visual though. I wish they had simply redesigned it to be a powerful AoE cooldown rather than doing away with it altogether but they took the easy/lazy way out just like they did with Nether Tempest. It just never made sense as a cooldown whose sole purpose was to lower other cooldowns but as an optional AoE cooldown it could have been great.
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Or keep it and let us cast it while moving while turning it into an actual AOE damage ability (just ditch the CDR) 
Anything channeled these days is almost worthless since they make us move every .5 seconds
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Biggest problem I have the removal of Phoenix Flames and Scorch, my mage will be shelved for midnight, thinking on a rogue since they are the least pruned class.
Phoenix Flames is one of the most beautiful spells in the game, genuinely don’t know what they were thinking with that one. Removing all of these assets is not only disrespectful of the players but also the artists and designers who created them, not to mention a huge waste of resources. It’s sheer madness!
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I will be shelving this mage and my vulpera main come Midnight. I want to play it, just don’t know what I’m playing now :(, maybe rogue?
I loved the night fae animation on it, but i totally won’t miss its place in the rotation. I will also miss the night fae jade fire stomp.
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Icy floes with shifting power wins games, great for finding rogues.
That along with losing blast wave, displacement and block heals might be the last nail, double dps 2s will be even more difficult, fml.
Even now 95% of the 1900 2s comps have a healer, games going the wrong direction. Fix the problem, don’t make it worse.
I’m pretty sure Phoenix Flames is being removed because it is only thematic to blood elves, and they want to reduce how many ways fire mages have to generate Heating Up. I like the spell though. It’s one of the few things I’ll miss about current fire.
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You cast fireball during combustion.
Im okay with combustion being a minute and a half period but im not okay with being gutted and nothing to compensate.
Fireball
Pyroblast
Fire blast.
Thats it. 3 button rotation.
That is skimpy. I’ve long been in favor of Pyroblast hitting hard again (because it currently hits like wet tissue paper), but I would never expect to have that many spells removed. I assume Flamestrike will still be around for aoe. If so, does it now have an option to cast on target?
If having too many ways to proc hot streak was the issue they should have removed Fireblast and left Phoenix Flames in place since it has a much better VFX. As for the fantasy aspect of it, that’s inescapable in this game. Balance as a spec makes no sense for any other Druid race except for Night Elves, just like the Holy aesthetic makes no sense for any other Priest race but Humans. The Phoenix being tangentially related to High Elves is small potatoes in comparison.
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Oh…so the rumors I heard were true. 
I love Shifting Power, it has probably my favorite spell visuals of all time. I’m gonna miss it
And if everything else you’re all saying is true then I might be shelving this mage for midnight too
Getting water elemental back. I may be in the minority but I loved having it around. Throw down an AOE freeze for some nice shatter combos.
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I never got used to Phoenix Flames, really. It made Fire unenjoyable for me in TWW.
I’m happy it’s not there, but I’m also sad that it wasn’t reworked into something else instead of deleted. It would make sense if it was a Fire Blast upgrade somewhere down the tree or in the Sunfury hero tree. At the very least they could add in as a Fire Blast glyph to let people keep the animation.
I hate the removal of Scorch, though.
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Another option would have been to have flamestrike transform into phoenix flames in hotstreak and remove the guaranteed crit. They can do it with frostbolt, so they can do.it to flamestrike.
I am concerned that mastery is going to become a dead stat with less combustion uptime. If you look at the % scaling, it’s very low compared to other masteries off of the same numbers. The crit to mastery conversion in combustion (and even just the higher crit chance in combustion) amplified the very low multiplier. I hope they’re watching.
I’m happy to see the skill gone. I didn’t mind it as a standalone spell, but it was awful having to always pick it up in the general tree. More often than not it felt clunky to use.
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Oh you spent your major cool down? Gotta shifting to get some of that cooldown back! And its a channel, better hope there isnt a…oop you got knockback, oop you had to move. Sorry facepalm