We get so many cool utility with different schools of magic, from displacer to blast wave and db to fire\ice rings. When we get kicked on arcane we actually have something useful to press outside of nova or block now.
This is the most fun i have had on mage in a long time. I dont know about the PVE side but as a casual i love all the new toys\utility we get for a fight.
I havent played arcane mage since legion and it feels even better than legion now which i never would of guessed was going to happen again.
Big thanks to the dev that made arcane just so fantastic to play.
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I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself.
I’m a long time Frost Mage main, and I’ll most likely be playing more Arcane myself due to the interesting lack of updates in the Frost Mage design/playstyle.
I’m glad we have 3 DPS specs to choose from but I really advocate that all specs should be mostly on par with each other. Frost just isn’t there yet.
Signed,
The Disgruntled Frost Mage.
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I do like the change they did for flurry that was really nice, I also understand that number tuning is a bit off on frost though.
That is the one thing i like about mage/warlock there is always at least one spec that is strong. Unlike some of the hybrids i am use to playing
Right! I can see from a hybrid players perspective Mage and Rogue must be really cool to have 3 choices for sure.
Personally, I really do not like Fire spec thematically. If I wanted to play Fire, I’d just play a Destruction Warlock ya know? Lol. So that leaves me with Frost or Arcane. 
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I have a feeling like 10.1 will be a bit of a balancing patch and some underperforming trees will get brought up. So im guessing first season Arcane second frost. But we will see.
Yea i am not a fan of fire either, too much cooldown based damage for me.
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I’m thinking the same thing too actually about 10.1 bringing other classes up to speed.
I miss when Pyroblast felt like a massive nuke of damage, and now it just kind of gets blasted off like 20 times a second XD. Maybe the new Fire talents made it less spammy though, I haven’t played around with the new Fire tree too much yet!
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I agree that mage is “fun” from a whimsical standpoint. The utility and new buttons are cool and fun, mechanically speaking.
What’s not fun is doing ZERO damage.
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It’s definitely not lol. It’s more spammy if anything. Your build is either the exact same as SL or the new build is where you just spam cast hardcast pyros instead of fireball lol.
Well that is unfortunate to hear.