Going to be honest idc that our damage is poor, we deserved the nerfs 100% to our damage especially on arcane, but my issue is that we are not a tuning knob problem at this point.
Arcane: aethervision and NP both applying to barrage leads to a frankly pretty janky rotation, double dipping was a FAR superior gameplay experience then this clutter
Fire: We have half the talent tree committed to living bomb a frankly boring talent that has never been able to be balanced. In addition SKB, a highly skill expressive talent, has been entirely pushed out of the meta.
Frost: You know what I like to do after pressing Icy veins, Lust, and pots… PRESSING FROSTBOLT 8 TIMES TO STACK DEATHSCHILL… Frostbolt is a filler spell, it’s not fun to press, it’s never been fun to press.
Frostfire: we might as well remove this from the game. Shame since it felt really good to play w/ this w/ SKB and GS, but this tree just does nothing. Removed living bomb since it could not be balanced, frost and fire mastery does nothing, all it ended up was here’s random insta cast frostfire bolts.
This class is an absolute mess, and for a large part due to Blizzard trying to provide alternative playstyles for FOTM rerollers. Just bring us back SKB fire, GS frost (without deathschill), and make a talent that’s just doubledipping for arcane since this right now is a mess.
We had something good going, we had 3 specs w/ great varied rotations that played differently from one another each w/ their own complexities, pros, and cons. Why did we have to take that all away and make this steaming hot garbage.
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The patch is a real rushed mess. Mage just got absolutely mashed in pve and in PVP. Frost caught nerfs on accident in pve while fire and arcane got nerfed heavily in PVP on accident even though its underperforming and pretty much at the bottom.
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arcane pvp is so bad - i mean its laughable trying to win a skirmish - frost mage is insta kill you
blizzard - we are your customers - are you listening?
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frost deserves to be nerfed into the ground and never seen again in pvp its single handedly made BGs unplayable do what you like in PVE but it needs to have its damage reduced to nothing if its going to have the tool kit it does
I hope they buff the other specs for PvP, I hated being pigeonholed into frost. Thing is, the frost nova and the cone of cold spells (which I’m sure you’re complaining about) aren’t a frost specific thing, so the rooting and snares are going to be for all specs.
LOL, what toolkit? We don’t even have a stun and the only reason Frost can do any damage at all is because it relies almost exclusively on instant cast procs since we are otherwise always spell locked. A hunter complaining that mages do too much damage in the current PvP meta is wild!
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Agree that Blizz messed up playstyles and rotations. But the damage nerfs went too far! So no,I don’t agree that the nerfs were 100% needed. I care that every mage spec is doing poor dps, while Rogues and Shammies are blowing up the charts.
Hilarious take from a one button spammer
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Frost is strong in bg blitz sure, but if you look at top CR players above 2.4k rated in blitz… Mist weaver, sub rogue, unholy dk, pres evoker, disc, feral,balance and marks all have higher representation than frost.
So while you say its awfully strong statistics suggest its not the strongest at the moment in blitz at least at the top 5% end. I would argue sub rogue is prob the strongest DPS spec in Blitz right now for competitive play