Mazra wrote:
You must remember that pre-TBC there is very little +damage gear available, despite Blizzard's latest changes to low level content. Two fireball crits would rarely happen, seeing as I have a crit chance of around 11% with my Fire build (level 34). Even with Shatter I rarely had two consecutive crits on a frozen target.
Well, I wasn't actually trying to be literal about the 2-crit thing, but fire mages by level 40 (I realize you're at 34) get Combustion, making crits an often occurance. What I really meant was that you could try the fire tree if you find yourself spending too long grinding.
Mazra wrote:
It's true that you need to be a lot more on your toes while fighting as a Mage. You can't just send in the pet and go AFK for a while. I found out after sending a Frostbolt at a target and then Alt-Tabbing out to Windows to watch a video on YouTube. I do this all the time on my Warlock, Druid and Hunter. Cast one or two spells and then Alt-Tab out to post here or surf the net. How'd you think I got this many posts?
I mean, it's not that the class isn't challenging, it's just very repetitive. It's the same two spells I use, because anything else would drain me dry in a moment. It's not like on my Hunter where I can blow everything on one mob and then auto-attack the next two to regain mana.
Maybe it's the lack of an auto-attack feature that irks me. Being able to wand or auto-slap things to death while the special attacks tick away used to be part of leveling for me. Now I have to control all damage dealt. In a way the Mage class has a lot more micromanagement, I guess.
Oh, the pain of loving a class end-game, but hating every step towards it. It was the exact opposite way with my Warlock.
Echoing DarkHybridX, I don't really understand what you want then.
Your other classes, you press 5-6 different buttons once per fight, and then sit there.
For the mage, you press 3 ([Main Nuke], Fire Blast, Frost Nova) buttons a total of 5-6 times, and sit after.
It's the same thing, except as a mage, you pay attention the whole fight.
...so how is playing a mage, which even you describe as more challenging than those other classes, more boring, if you don't even pay attention during the fights with the other classes?