As a mage main, these are all things I do regularly. They are key bound, often macroed with stop casting and focus targeting as appropriate. What you are describing are casual fotm mage alts. They are in great abundance because “1 button mage rotation” is a common meme. Any decent mage main will have ready access to at least 10 utility spells (ie: CoC, Poly, Frost Nova, decurse, et al). Mages have one of the best tool kits in the game, if used properly.
Also, there are so many bad mages around now that I raid log the mage and just play an alt (healer is 70 and raid geared, working on a tank now). So you will likely see fewer good mages in pugs based on this as well.
I don’t CC unless asked. If the tank doesn’t ask I assume he wants the big seed. I am happy to oblige
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I love all the fire/arcane mages that min-max to OCD levels, go all out all the time, & then pull threat & either die or cause group chaos, over & over. You would think that they would learn how to throttle their DPS or whatever accordingly after a distinct pattern begins to form…
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I disagree, I sometimes go to Crossroads area just to read the chats, it is still funny!
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Ahhh good ole pretentiousness.
Yea most of the makes I end up grouping with never decurse. I don’t understand it.
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lol, because an MMORPG is just like an RTS where you need 300apm to compete right? Button clicking won’t make a good player bad. Heck you can even argue that keyboard usage for movement won’t make or break things in PvE either.
Yep, true.
No. People can say what they want. Calling out your inadequacies is fair game. Feel free to play as poorly as you wish, but don’t think you are somehow protected from people noticing and talking about it.
Imagine spending this much time defending bad/neglectful use of class abilities…
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And I have the right to kick your useless self out of the dungeon and never run with you again.
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Making excuses for keyboard turning and clicking. Big yike.
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seduce bad, seed good.
more seed.
Absolutely! If I see a mana bar, I know I’m using Earth Shock, every single time it’s available AND a Grounding Totem for good measure.
I will grant that as a player learns new areas and dungeons they may need to learn what curses exist and what can be removed, but there’s no excuse for not knowing those abilities exist in our playbook.
I won’t tell you how to play, I just won’t invite you to groups and guilds won’t want you either. Grouping up with 25 people isn’t about you being selfish, right?
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His parents probably pay for his subscription.
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My mage is good at reminding warlocks and hunters that they will never be #1.
been saying this since classic 98% of the mages are complete s**t
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Right on queue, here comes Kumasama to add absolutely jack nothing to the conversation except insults.
You do realize that resorting to insults is a clear sign you lack the intellect to actually participate in the debate.
But I would expect nothing less for you.
Always blame the tank.
Arcane has 40% threat reduction.
Tanks need to get gud.
I will say this… Spellsteal is mana intensive… there are times it is worth it… and times where the mob recast the buff so fast it is pointless…
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I mean, my parents used to pay for my subscription too, back when I played OG Vanilla in 2004. I never found that insulting and was very grateful for it! Just remember to thank your parents for their generosity! 