LOL 3.1 Mage "changes"Follow

How worthless. wee a replenishment buff for a spec that does 1k less dps. ice lance shatter combos won't pull frost out of the gutter (beyond the point that they have been saying this for months). Wee survivability for fire in PvP... Spirit useful/interesting... maybe if they make mage armor take spirit as +dmg or something...

Edited, Feb 6th 2009 9:11am by Anobix

Blech.

I'm beginning to get the feeling that Mages are indeed the Rodney Dangerfield of WoW.

Guess my mage stays dusty at 71 while my paly and alts have fun.

Frankly - I put my mage aside in Wrath and haven't looked back. I won't go so far as saying the class is broken, but it's definately lost a lot of the appeal. I don't PVP, so I'm not into that.

Only thing I miss is the Teleports.

Mages right now (good mages) are owning the meters in raid boss fights. This most likely explains why we didn't get any significant buffs. I would be ready for some arcane nerfs.

I don't think we can really complain. I'm in the top 5 or 3 now with Arcane or Fire, and we all know about Arcane in PVP. We got a lot of attention lately. Although, as has been stated earlier Frost is the new Old Arcane. I only spec into it for the +hit and icy veins.

This.

get this straight though, you still want a mage to provide imp. scorch debuff or you will never hit the full potential the spec has to offer.

yeah the problem with needing the scorch-b*t*h

close is close. RNG can always conspire to kill your dps, I am playing FFB and I know how much RNG can suck. The beauty of playing Fire and the elegance of playing Arcane in BC was RNG. Fire needed RNG and arcane required less RNG (clearcast?) since its damage output was controlled.

Add in ignite munching taking away significant numbers over a long fight makes it just sad to be fire mage. I like my fires T.T

What is with the QQ here? Mages are dps gods in WotLK and probably the third toughest PvP class (behind retadins and DKs, both of whom are ridiculous).

Yeah, I've gotten caught in a couple of waves because of that. Thank god for iceblock.

I have to admit that falling off a cliff and blinking before you hit the ground has been really fun. Alhtough, it's a pain that we still can't blink off of a 1" step. I can't count the times I tried to blink and was stopped in my tracks from a small elevation change.

I've only ever played a mage in wow and played full fire up until WoTLK. I have found that frost is definately the better leveling tool. The question is: What is the best spec for instances pre/raiding?

-V

Hmm, nah. I guess if I were an arena player or an extremely competitive sort, I might have stuck with arcane for more than 8 hours. I just didn't like it. Our raids are always caster-heavy, so it's appreciated that I stuck with FFB, while our top dps mage went arcane. Even so, I beat her in several fights the other nite in our (mostly) one-shot 10man naxx. We both had personal bests, though. Anyway, for now I'm mostly ignoring the ignite munch thing. I mean, if scorch or LB absolutely needs to be refreshed, okay, I'll do it. I'm not overscorching as much anymore because of the worry about the bug, so my dps is better. Still, it would be nice to see a fix.