Time/portal arcane mage:
I think it would be awesome if you specced more into arcane, you could have some kind of time manipulation like alter time. Also, maybe being able to have the ability to have two portals up, so you or team mates could jump into one, and appear at the other one. Kind of like the lock portal. I know it would be crazy OP. Considering arcane mages can blink like 3-4 times. But it would be awesome to have something like that!
You killed your own idea discussion by admitting how op it would be, and that’s to say nothing of how that would further homogenize classes by taking a unique class ability and replicating it in other classes. This is something the vast majority of the community is trying to get away from.
I was just using the warlock portal as an example. And it was just an idea buddy.
A bad one.
As i said in the other thread, I’d love to see more time and reality manipulation from arcane mages, though, just not warlock portals.
I personally just really dislike time manipulation as an idea, as well as any attempt to change Arcane specs’ themes; so I’m pretty biased against this.
Except time manipulation is a mage theme, soooo yea. Literally have an ability called time warp
What about a time/space mage? Have a ultimate spell like Black hole or Quasar or something like that?
While the concept of time manipulation works in theory for Arcane, I’m doubtful it would translate very well in-game.
Time slowing/speeding up mechanics tend not to work well at all in multiplayer games, and even solo games often don’t get it right.
I’m also not convinced that if it were to be put in the game that it would be any different to how Arcane currently plays, just with different spell names.
In my eyes the only way I could see if working would be as a support spec (low self-damage, buff others) but Blizzard is pretty adamant they don’t want that style of character in the game for over a decade now.
Chronomancy is a part of the arcane arts but it’s not the main theme of the Arcane spec specifically, which was the core of my gripe.