Mage is weird to me because its the only class with three straight away nuke specs. Hunter has differences between its specs, warlock has major deviations between its specs, rogue, warrior, and DK have chnages between DPS specs.
From the outside - import to note ive only dabbled in Mage - the deviations between mages specs appear to be the smallest of all classes. And therefore it seems like they all just play the best spec (i never see frost).
So why dont they make one of the specs something a little left-of-center?
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Because we are spell casters, Not melee damage dealers, Hunter’s are just pet wielding physical damage dealers at the end of the day.
And also each of the mage specs plays distinctively different.
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Arcane aoe in M+ is basically melee.
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Melee range hybrid, A large part can be done out of melee, But yes we will spend some time in Melee.
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atm its not. done some keys with arcane mages and mostly its funnel into a target and explode.
@op you will see frost mage a lot in df, but all 3 mage specs play differently. fire is pretty hard to play, arcane is funnel. frost is big sustain with some burst.
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Fire is meh, and it’s very spikey
Frost is the sustain utility bringer
And Arcane is front loading extreme amounts of hubris, Damage, And other shennanigans.
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hello
msurvival enthusiast/stan here
please do not do this to other specs
ive loved this since legion but it’s marginally neglected and only got time in the sun due to an insanely braindead strong tier set last season
it’s currently slated to probably be the worst dps spec in df, and if past track record says anything, will probably stay that way
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I can see it now turn arcane into the tank spec where it conjures a purple magic shield and sword.
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I’d like to see old combustion come back. New fire was fun in legion, but overly dumbed down to being orange arcane.
And they need to bring back deep freeze.
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We lost the chance of adding a time-magic based healing spec.
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They already are?
They do their damage in different ways.
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Which is funny because arcane hasn’t been brain dead since legion.
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Unless frost got some buffs I didn’t see it’s the worst of the three specs…
on prepatch it is but in df beta keys it was the main spec played.
Not according to altered time.
Again I haven’t payed attention in a minute just going off of the discord.
im just going off streams and my personal experience when we were mucking around in 20s on beta. all 3 mage specs are really strong. its a nice change
Reminds me of that spell sword boss from nighthold
But the difference between the specs is less than sny other class. No?
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I think BFA dumbed it down too much, legion arcane was damn near perfect.
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A Battlemage spec of sorts, I could get behind such an idea.
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