Spellslinger Lets go!

[Whitewizard-undermine]

Oh so nice!

I already think we are good, but this will bring us back!

@Linxy

• Hero Talents
• Frostfire
  • Frostfire Burst’s visuals have been updated.
• Spellslinger
  • Splintering Orbs can now generate a maximum of 6 Splinters (was 4 Splinters).
• Sunfury
  • Spellfire Spheres are now anchored relative to your chest’s position.
• Arcane
• Spellslinger
  • Developer’s note: Adjustments to Arcane’s talents and Frost’s updates to Splinterstorm have reduced the power of Spellslinger considerably. We’re aware of these issues and will continue to make changes as necessary.
  • Arcane Splinter damage increased by 30%.
  • Fixed an issue where Splinterstorm damage was not equal to Splinter damage.
  • Spellfrost Teachings chance to trigger increased to 5%.

[Kerathras-dalaran (Kerathras)]

@Linxy

Spellfire Spheres are now anchored relative to your chest’s position.

What were they anchored to before?

@Linxy

Arcane Splinter damage increased by 30%.

This will be consequential for sure and narrow the gap with Sunfury significantly.

@Linxy

Fixed an issue where Splinterstorm damage was not equal to Splinter damage.

Just when I thought Splinterstorm couldn’t be any more underwhelming, lol. Now that they’ve sorted out the mediocre damage they really need to give it an actual visual and we might be cooking.

[Nelinrah-proudmoore]

They can hotfix to nerf Spellslinger, but can’t hotfix to buff it. Why Blizzard?

[Sithïs-stormrage]

Likely will need more Spellslinger buffs still, especially aoe.

Part of the large disparity between Spellslinger and Sunfury is the amount of Arcane Barrage casts a Sunfury arcane mage gets to make, which are so many more than Spellslinger. And on top, these arcane barrages are even stronger courtesy of the hero talents.

Then you have 5 spellfire spheres giving extra % spell damage, so add that to barrage.

The arcane splinters alone will never match that.

And neither will the extra arcane orbs spawned by spellslinger, which not only do pretty mediocre damage themselves, but the extra arcane charges they will give you will get munched because they often launch right after you’ve launched an arcane orb or maxed stacks with something else.

If you look at damage distribution of arcane mages in any M+, Arcane Barrage is ahead by a landslide, and one problem Spellslinger has relative to Sunfury is the arcane charge economy for Sunfury is far better and smoother, with less subject to RNG procs.

[Nelinrah-proudmoore]

Arcane Explosion needs divine intervention.

[Kuni-ghostlands]

That’s… not feasible to keep. At all. Firstly SFT proc rate got applied to Frost as well, secondly there’s no way in HELL that should stay on Arcane.