What blizzard has done to mage in this ptr cycle is legitimately offensive.
These patch notes have been extremely negative for most specs overall, the devs should be embarrassed of shoveling out such garbage.
The amount of changes that i actually liked i can count on one hand, but what really pisses me off about this cycle is the doubling down on garbage changes such as no double dipping, or the new coh for dh.
Seriously, id be embarrassed if i was a blizzard dev at the moment.
Some of these devs like the one that works on arcane mage clearly does not understand what they are doing, but not just that, the complete and utter lack of logic is showing, and it’s honestly worrying, because lack of knowledge can be fixed, irrationality cannot. The recent change to intuition really drives this point home. They literally took a suggestion made for a different ability and used it on intuition because “it’s similar enough i guess” This is literally dumb, it took me a few minutes of thinking through logically about this to realize why it wouldn’t work the same, and it’s SO OBVIOUS!
Intuition is a random proc, it can proc from everything, aethervision was a guaranteed proc after you used nether precision specifically, at most with intuition with a longer duration and maybe 2 charges you would build back charges up to 4 and use it with nether precision, aethervision though you wanted to cycle through another nether window because aether only procs from nether precision!
How they seemingly didn’t reach the conclusion that this suggestion would not work on intuition shows a severe lack of critical thinking.
It’s embarrassing.
Don’t take this as me only complaining about arcane though, i also didn’t like most of the fire changes, and quite a few of the frost changes either, i also didn’t like most of the havoc dh changes, these patch notes are disgusting.