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Billarious
Title: Consumer of Coffee
Posts: 24
Registered: 2003-7-4 15:12:52
Talehon69 posted:

Well, I do play Mage and they are easy, they always have been and probably always will be. FOTM though, not really. They haven't changed all that much in Cataclysm. Their new talent trees are pretty nice, and the new Fire is...fun, but not really viable for single-target damage.



I agree with you on fire. It's fun, but clumsy especially when signle target dps will once again matter most. Ironically, they made all three trees viable, but in a way just further pushed raiders into arcane and pvp'rs into frost. More of the same, just different rotations.


My earlier point is optimal play on all classes are figured out pretty quickly and lot of them are pretty much two to three buttons.

 

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Talehon69  3 stars
Title: Anonymous Entity
Posts: 525
Registered: 2002-12-11 10:09:58
Fire is extremely fun and I like the crit-streaks and blowing past 10k DPS with a huge ticking Combustion....but, it requires a lot of luck to do that, whereas I can go Arcane and mash ABx4 with AP up and do 12k, no luck required. They really need to fix Fire, because I mean honestly? The entire tree revolves around AoE, and I thought the idea of Cat was to reduce/remove AoE as a viable thing to do on every god damn pull?

 

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heiromancerdrackus  2 stars
Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
Billarious posted:

Talehon69 posted:

Well, I do play Mage and they are easy, they always have been and probably always will be. FOTM though, not really. They haven't changed all that much in Cataclysm. Their new talent trees are pretty nice, and the new Fire is...fun, but not really viable for single-target damage.



I agree with you on fire. It's fun, but clumsy especially when signle target dps will once again matter most. Ironically, they made all three trees viable, but in a way just further pushed raiders into arcane and pvp'rs into frost. More of the same, just different rotations.

My earlier point is optimal play on all classes are figured out pretty quickly and lot of them are pretty much two to three buttons.



I could be completely wrong here, but IIRC from parses in the beta, Frost / Fire were pretty close and Arcane was lagging.

The proc weaving for Frost REALLY makes me happy.

If FoF: DF. If no DF, IL. If BF + FoF, FFB. Pet freeze for MOAR PROCS! Love it.
Talehon69  3 stars
Title: Anonymous Entity
Posts: 525
Registered: 2002-12-11 10:09:58
From how long ago? I remember hearing they reduced Fire damage a bit awhile back. I can't imagine how scaling alone would make Arcane lag behind and fire jump ahead, cause as it stands right now, it's not even close.

 

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_Taebo_  1 star
Posts: 184
Registered: 2001-2-28 11:37:14
The Mage is the new hunter. I even dusted off my 40.

The sound of the pet makes me want to pee after a while.

 

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heiromancerdrackus  2 stars
Title: Is, indeed, a fat ass.
Posts: 274
Registered: 2001-12-24 17:04:55
Talehon69 posted:

From how long ago? I remember hearing they reduced Fire damage a bit awhile back. I can't imagine how scaling alone would make Arcane lag behind and fire jump ahead, cause as it stands right now, it's not even close.



Its more to do with the required mana management that Arcane now has than any scaling changes. Higher up, spamming AB is impossible. And yes there is a significant addition to the mage at 81; Flame Orb / Frostfire Orb. It really adds a TON of damage.
Talehon69  3 stars
Title: Anonymous Entity
Posts: 525
Registered: 2002-12-11 10:09:58
AB spam is only for short 5man bosses. In normal circumstances you do ABx2/x3 and Missiles or Barrage, and you can stay at 90% or so mana constantly.

 

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