Based on what u guys have seen so far, talents, covenants, conduits, legendaries,
Which spec will you guys be choosing as ur main spec for SL?
I personally am between fire and frost
Also if u can tell me why u chose that spec, what makes u pick that?
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I always start with frost and hope it does well. I prefer the control and survivability of the spec as well as the machine gunning of ice lances (not a fan of glacial spike).
I was playing Arcane since before it made sense, and see no reason to change that.
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I always play as fire. My favorite spec in the game.
Tank for 1st raid tier. Then something melee. If I play at all. I’m genuinely starting to dislike Blizzard more with each coming day.
Mages look pretty awful in SLands. No major changes, no fixes to mechanical problems that have been going on for multiple expansions, RoP, terribly synchronicity with convenants.
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Fire its one of my favorite specs , may go back to playing my destro lock if there gonna be in a solid place and i played destro as my main for years if both of them are bad i will hop on the melee train with a dh
If I stay mage, probably start as arcane or frost until the raid comes out.
If by some miracle they add functional cleave to arcane, will go back to arcane and give it a shot.
Arcane till I die…
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I main an arcane mage [If I change my character portrait the cookie blocker on my tablet freaks out so it always posts as my DH]. I want to join the fairy covenant because of aesthetics. Guess it is a good thing I have built up a thick skin against “You should play {blank}” because it looks like I’m going to need it.
It does make me sad though. I wish I could play what I like without being a letdown to my friends and guildies.
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That’s what it boils down to: go arcane because it’s the spec I started playing and fell in love with and potentially lose my raid spot or play a spec I don’t really want to play so I can functionally do the content I want to do.
Choose a Covenant I want for the aesthetic and the story or choose the one I don’t really want to cause it’ll mean 2% more dps due to the fact that the devs can’t create an equal system in their borrowed power mentality.
Guess that’s the “player choice” Bliz says they care so much about.
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Hoping frost is the go to, but I’ll end up playing whatever the best spec for M+ ends up being.
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I was going to main arcane mage in Shadowlands but umm, with the very underwhelming changes to spec alongside a massive nerf to mobility I just kinda dropped it I guess.
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Fire because it’s pretty.
frost and fire are both possibilities, but frost has a stable base to work from and just needs some tuning to avoid slipping back into the no ice lance spec that takes the fun out of it. fire might work, but its usually gear based, so we will see. arcane is just… arcane. i’ve never liked it at all, and i probably never will barring a complete redesign. i hate mana management, it has too many cooldowns that all go together into the longest ramp up time ever, and its visuals are… disappointing. with frost i’m throwing shards and spikes of ice at the target, with fire im well… setting stuff on fire, but with arcane i do all of these cd’s and then what does my big hit do? makes a little pssh noise and thats about it
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always play arcane… even if it takes 10 seconds of globals before i can burst…
Yes I agree with most people on here, Arcane now has even more ramp up cool downs we gotta press before doing high damage burst, and it’s a lot of cool downs …
Fire is in an okay place right now with Phoenix now being baseline and can use that too spread ur ignite too, but fire usually comes out on top towards like the end after 2 or 3 raids where their crit can get high enough to be good…
Frost I think is the go to for starting out, it has aoe and single target , but usually falls mid or last,
But!!.. fire and frost did get the best legendaries, arcane got the crappiest, I don’t know why they don’t fix arcane or why it got crappy legendaries… I’m pretty sure blizzard loves fire more then any other spec, and if frost wasn’t too rng reliant I would go with it.
So I’m still not sure what I’ll do lol
What do you mean crappy Legendaries? They’re giving Arcane Mages the Siphon azerite trait as a Legendary. You know, that trait EVERYONE used, was in all the top mythic arcane mages toolkit, totally OP and game breaking!
Please read that in the sarcastic tone it was typed in.
Arcane, no contest. A lot of the gameplay issues that keep me from playing it in retail are being fixed, and it’s also my favorite spec. Plus it gets Shard of the Exodar.
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99% chance all 3 mages in my sphere of play go to a diff class. Not 1 of the covenants look good at all and the specs are horrid to play on top of having pretty pepega output.
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A lot of gameplay issues are being fixed? Which ones exactly … im curious what you see good about arcane in SL other than mastery affecting all spells and a bit of mana regen from barrage.
All the actual gameplay issues are still going to be there so I’m curious what it is they’re fixing that you’re focusing on …
Cleave is still non-existent. AoE is still in melee range. 9-15 sec ramp up is a NEW problem affecting gameplay. Missile stack in theory but the reviewers and people playing it on alpha say you don’t really get to 3 stacks. Mobility an even greater issue now that displacement is gone.
Edit: Never mind. I see that you’re not a raider.
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