Almost nothing they do looks cool, it’s very underwhelming for a class that should be a master of magic. I don’t want JRPG type caster visuals but they could use some more flavor. Frost especially is probably the most boring looking spec in the entire game
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Fire and frost have pretty boring visuals I agree. Purple explosions with arcane is pretty cool though.
As someone said in another thread, pyroclasm should look significantly better. Its a hard cast pyro that hits much harder…should look like a fast greater pyro or something.
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I mean they scrapped two of the best looking spells in the game with Frostfire bolt and Cinderstorm, and while Comet Storm also looks great it’s in such a silly place on the talent trees that its a dps loss to take over other things. What you’re left with is small blue spike, small white spikes, small white balls, big white spike and… well no that’s about it for Frost. Having said that though, even Evokers spells aren’t that visually stunning for the most part.
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I agree that Arcane has by far the best visuals of the three Mage specs but even those seem paltry when compared to what NPCs can do. Hell, even the little Spritedarters that Balance Druids can summon with a talent have a better animation on their Arcane Bolt attacks than anything Arcane Mages can do. And don’t even get me on the VFX for Arcane Surge which happen so quickly you can only see it if you take a video and play it at 1/4 speed. Forget about taking a screenshot.
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If I’m not mistaken Frost Barrier and Cone of Cold have the same visual since 2004. It would be cool if they added some visual glyphs. The Blue frostbolt is missed. Pyroblast has a pretty boring visual as well. I highly doubt we get any consideration for any of this in the next several years.
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Yeah arcane is definitely the best looking and most uniquely “mage” of the 3 but it’s still a bit underwhelming itself. I would like to see the other specs not be just strictly one class of spells and incorporate a wider array of visuals. Devastation evoker is kind of more like how I would imagine a mage’s spells to be
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You know what’s messed up is that the Primalists have better looking versions of our spells. Every time I fight one of them and they pull out their better looking Ice Barrier it makes me feel personally attacked.
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I want Arcane blue visuals.
— Like what the Dracthyr Evoker got with ‘Eternity Surge’
I feel more like an Arcane mage on a Dracthyr Evoker than I do on an Arcane mage. 
lol
Fire is just awful since you can’t even reasonably use the spells that have any flair (Flamestrike, Meteor), and you’re stuck with Fireball, Slightly Bigger Fireball, Fireblast (which basically has no visual effect), and the awful-and-also-now-punishing-to-press Phoenix Flames.
At least the visuals match the crappiness, I guess.
Flurry shouldn’t be just 3 small bolts. It’s a channel spell, turn it into a Blue/White beam of frosty snow. Ice Lance is fine, it’s icicles flying. Frostbolt could be beefed up a bit to look more blunt hitting. Frozen Orb should look a bit more frosty with more fog roaming around it as it puts out damage. Blizzard could be a bit heavier looking or even sounding like a blizzard with wind gusts and sounds of hail falling.
Hell I’d be happy with a glyph that turned Frostbolt into the old Frostfire bolt design and it would make it feel more impactful without changing damage at all. Sound and Visuals play a big part not in just how it looks, but how it feels to play the class. If you can make it look and sound great, then numbers don’t always end up being the final factor cause people will play it for those aesthetic designs.
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Every time I try to play frost I get so turned off by the dinky Frostbolt animation. Anything hard-casted shouldn’t look/sound so silly and harmless.
I wish fire mages looked half as cool as elemental shaman. Lava Burst looks great during combat (in my opinion). I also wish Rune of Power didn’t make me avoid fire spec, but we can’t win them all.
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I’ve been using Meteor since the moment the new talent trees launched and I don’t suspect I will ever switch. I don’t care that it sucks, it’s literally the only capstone talent with a cool visual. That said its damage needs to be doubled and not split between targets for it to even be viable. At the very least they can lower the cooldown to make up for how little damage it does, it’s almost a waste of a GCD as it is.
No. We are purple bois. Dont be coming at us with that heresy.
I think mages look pretty, dont take away my spell animations!
Mages in this game are more like Hogwarts students rather than masters of magic. They’ve been lacking in the visual department for several expansions now.
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Might wanna take a look @ what colour your class’s name is.
Ive heard different things from light blue to turquoise to teal. Regardless arcane mages are 100 percent sparkly purp bois. Its like our entire schtick.
No, that is definitely not turquoise or teal - It’s a straight up blue. lol
Also, blue arcane has been prominently seen throughout WoW history too, so I guess you could say it’s the elite schtick of arcane mages. 