Some small mage loving it seems with new talents

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  • New PvP Talent: Master Shepherd – While an enemy player is affected by your Polymorph or Mass Polymorph, your movement speed is increased by 25% and your Versatility is increased by 6%. Additionally, Polymorph and Mass Polymorph no longer heal enemies.

    • New PvP Talent: Ethereal Blink – Blink and Shimmer apply Slow at 100% effectiveness to all enemies you Blink through. For each enemy you Blink through, the cooldown of Blink or Shimmer are reduced by 1 second, up to 5 seconds.

Where the fire love at though

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These additions are fantastic.

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Polymorph not healing gonna nutty

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prob because right now its bad to sheep for that reason lol. its a high damage meta.

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RMP hard swaps are gonna be extremely painful, I see.

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A PvP talent to not heal sounds reasonable to me

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Not really, it’ll actually be useful like the other CCs in the game.

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are you seriously suggesting that polymorph is a weak cc? cmon now thats gotta be a joke

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Cyclone will be best CC in game at 10.1 drop.

Both poly and cyclone are 6 seconds in 10.1

Poly can still be broken
Poly can still be healed into
Poly can still be dispelled.

Cyclone will be best CC in game 10.1 as its not subject to any of the above

Also kicking fast clone is much harder and easier to precog a druid doing it then a mage unless its like frost with icy veins + PI up.

We’ve all been there precogging fast clone boomies like uh oh…

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Are you seriously suggesting it isn’t one of the weakest CCs? You know it heals you, right?

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Glad mages are getting some love, but also love the contrast with the new Evoker honor talent. Remove the CD on Sleep Walk but increase the cast time… okay lmao.

EDIT: To be clear this will be really strong for Preservation and very awkward for Devastation, which will be really starved for slots and doesn’t run haste.

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Who needs CC when you can just do this and win the game

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thats not fair tho cause smart players wall dragon rage. and then every second is a struggle to survive.

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Funny how that hasnt been an issue for the entirety of wow.

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Because it had the advantage of the longest duration spammable CC.

It’s been since lowered to be in line with other CC while keeping the cons.

See my above post comparing poly vs cyclone.

Both are 6 seconds.

Poly is breakable, able to heal into it, able to 1 click dispell, also removes debuffs
Cyclone has none of these attributes

Both are spammable

Which is better now?

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It was always an issue, made even more of an issue by the shortened duration and the popularity of solo shuffle.

Maybe you haven’t been paying attention, but things have changed in the last 20 years. What wasn’t so much an issue 20 years ago may be an issue now, 20 years later.

Would you like another try?

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Polymorph was already an extremely strong CC - relatively quick cast, doesn’t require facing the target, on a separate school of magic for everyone besides Arcane, spammable, yet another ability in the expansive mage toolkit of crowd control… the only trade-off was that it healed the target. Having poly target not heal feels a little absurd

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Well currently, that reason is data and statistics.

You are wasting your time, yes. Polymorph may seem strong at 1500 or around there, but it’s quite weak at non-low rating, so much so it barely gets used if at all.

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New sheep talent in action

https://tenor.com/view/family-love-heart-sheep-lamb-gif-25939466

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I swear people posting behind classic low level characters are so cringe…