Can anybody from Blizzard explain why Ice Lance and Fire Blast are sharing a CD now?
I thought the idea was to make the rotation more fun and not more boring.
Instead of adding new skills to the rotation, they basically removed one through the sharing of the CD.
The rotation for frost mages now is basically: Frost Bolt, Frost Bolt, Frost, Bolt, Ice Lance, Frost Bolt, Frost Bolt, Frost Bolt, Ice Lance…
Fire Blast as an alternative instant spell to use would make the rotation way more interesting.
I would personally prefer to decrease the Ice Lance to 200% again but not sharing a CD with fireblast.
Not a big fan of this. Would have helped if they had added in the patchnotes the reason for changing this.
Is it due to lvl 60 damage being too high - or Revelation being too strong working with the cast + instant (I.E a frostmage would do frostbolt + fire blast, if no FF procs).
Having fewer buttons to use as a frost mage is a bit meh.
On datamined version ice lance was 30 yards increased to 36 with arctic reach. There are no notes about this. If on default its 30 yards extra bad. Either way nerfed out of existence. I only will take it because it required for FoF
If the damage is too high, I dont understand why they increased the ice lance bonus dmg from 200 to 300%.
The shared CD with fireblast makes absolutely no sense to me. It looks like they want to prevent frost mages from using fire blast which is really sad.
On raiding only usage of ice lance would be to consume extra finger of frost procs. As now you wouldnt even use it then. Seems like mage rotation will be like we are gonna stay melee range keep winters chill up, cone of cold on cool down
An occasional Fire Blast (or lack of) doesn’t change the appeal of the rotation for Frost Mages in any shape or form?
Overall, for an interesting rotation…Frost Mage was never really the spec to be (with some exceptions later on in Retail’s lifecycle). And this is coming from someone who always have played Frost Mage since early Vanilla days, and in every single expansion following. Popping in Fire Blast also doesn’t make much sense from a theme perspective?
No one is going to be playing frost in PvE, this is a big nerf for mage PvP.
And this is a huge nerf (cant use fireblast or lance to break grounding, have to wand it).
For PvP having Revelation you would still have a big nuke (outside FF) with a cast+fireblast (both abilities gained the Revelation buff). Wont have that anymore.
WF proced you died entered the chat. But sure try to gain stacks vs a shaman who aint a bot and then run into melee for a CoC. I.E you have no clue what you are talking about - prob a PvE bot by reading your comments.
Oh so even Ziqo who is r1 mage since before you were born also has the matchup wrong.
Who said exactly the same as me, there is no world where you will run into range of CoC vs a capable shaman. This is just you being a bot.