Can we just collectively agree that going into midnight, that every casting class has better spell effects than our original , quintessential wizard? Evoker, warlock, shaman, shadow priest , all their animations are so flashy. Mage on the other hand FF frost mage has some decent spell effects. Frost SS? Meh. Fire mage? Looks awful. Arcane? Aside from arcane missiles cleaving, they are also awful. SS arcane gives it a bit of sparkle, but that’s it.
Blizzard Mage needs a little more magic in their spells!
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Ice Barrier desperately needs an update. I think it’s still using the same design from vanilla.
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This is 100% of the reason why I will not be a mage main in Midnight. Their spells look incredibly outdated. For caster I think I am going Ele
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frost spells look so similar it sort of runs together. Could use some work on the spell effects for sure.
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Would love to see some updates and sweet badass ice spells, frosty effects, sparkling dimond ice lances, a giant frost beam that pierces through enemies, can hit multiple targets at once and melts trash.
Shiny snowflake explosions, Ice Spikes aoe. Hail of Icicles, Chills, Ice Storm, Ice Knife and Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere.
NOT outdated old ugly icicles on my face 24/7.
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I’ve made many posts about this over the years. It truly makes me sad when I see random mobs and NPCs out in the open world using spells with beautifully updated graphics when the Mage class has so many outdated spells that haven’t had their VFX updated in years and even decades, with some never having been updated at all. Arcane Orb, Frost Armor, Ray of Frost, just to name a few, all have never once received visual updates and by golly it shows!
And then there are the spells that barely have a visual to speak of like Arcane Blast, even though Kirin Tor NPCs have been using an updated version for years. Just go do the Camp Antonidas quest chain in the Azure Span or go visit the ruins of Dalaran and you can see it. Hell, even the Balance Druid faedragons summoned by one of their talents use it too. It’s an incredible source of frustration to see all of these assets, which are already in the game and would take virtually no effort to simply change a line of code and replace the spell IDs, continue to be denied to the players. It’s hands down the most disappointing thing I’ve ever experienced in the game.
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I’d love to keep this going and for it to get attention. MAGE needs updated spell effects. It doesn’t feel magical at all going into midnight. I’ve been playing the Beta and every other caster their spell effects are SO GOOD. Mage needs a few updates to their spell effects because it KILLS class fantasy when every other caster feels more magical than the an original wizard class of this game.
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Wild that Frost’s major cooldown still shares the same dinky animation as Vantus Rune lol.
I feel like even making our spells thicker/chunkier would go a long way. Frostbolt still looks and sounds like a Christmas tree ornament (it honestly seemed more threatening in Vanilla?) Plus all the talk of making Pyroblast/Pyroclasm more “meaningful” when it’s virtually indistinguishable from Fireball (and the GPyro animation is RIGHT THERE!). Frozen/Arcane orb just look insanely dated. Does Fireblast even have an animation? The list goes on. Give me something flashy!
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Yes I completely agree. You can even take FF bolt and make it completely whitish/ blue and that could be the new frost bolt. I get there doing a lot but mage feels a bit left behind. Which is funny because everyone says mage is Blizzards love child. I don’t feel it.
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Yeah arcane pulse animation looks great. Just wished all the spells looked better for arcane.
Wild that they can’t even add slightly more purple to the spec that only has purple as a theme (arcane magic as we all know is sourced from the depths of purple-ish pink and/or purple itself)
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