Serious question. I can’t fathom why they would give other classes the ability to destroy the Ice Block!
A couple of live examples from today’s disastrous slaughtergrounds:
- Some OP warrior just stuns me, wooshes to me, if I try anything, it’s ‘bladestorm’ so I can’t CC it, then it just hits SO hard, I lose most HP almost immediately, it has more stuns, and Iceblock is the ONLY defence I have anymore - OF COURSE it immediately and quickly destroys it and proceeds to kill me. WHat… the… F. It was NEVER this bad in BfA. Warrior couldn’t kill me THIS easily and quickly and frustratingly, without ANYTHING I can do about it. Alter time is useless, because it takes so long. At least give displacement back and STOP giving every damn class ability to break mage’s mostly useless bubble!
As if ice block wasn’t useless enough before (no mobility, so can’t escape using it, like huntars, priests, paladins can, and can’t attack, like paladins can, can’t heal, like priests can, etc.), now it’s 100% useless if the enemy team has warrior or priest.
- I move towards a flag, realizing they suddenly have a DK there - uh oh, quick, run away - so I become invisible, run away to a different direction - their DH, however, HAS to use spectral sight and attack me. DAMN! But it has a priest with it, so no matter WHAT I try, it just stalks me down and then I am forced to use Ice Block. You wouldn’t BELIEVE how quickly the priest ‘dispells’ my dear, useless Iceblock and how quickly the DH kills me.
Mage USED to have at least SOME mobility, and in Legion or BfA, I might have been able to escape that DH. But now, I am just a punching bag for priests, DHs, Warriors - can’t escape ANYTHING anymore, really. A druid stalked me down today and KEPT SHOOTING while running, and my HP went down faster than I would ever have thought possible.
How is any of this fair? How can mages even be viable for anything anymore, when every class can outrun them, can break the only defence they have, and kill them in 1 or 2 seconds?
If druids can even stalk like that, what hope does a mage have? Am I missing something? People keep saying mages shouldn’t be ‘crying’ about paladins, but a paladin can slow a mage down while keeping its own speed up and murder the mage quickly, and there’s NOTHING a mage can do.
Why take away Ice Block from mage? Just because you give ‘alter time’, doesn’t mean you have to WORSEN the already bad defence. Why do this unless you hate mages?
Was the plan to make mages completely useless punching bags (because that’s my experience now)? How can a paying customer playing mage have FUN in a BG, when all they do is get murdered and ganked by every other class so easily?
Paladin tank 2-shotted me earlier, and I couldn’t even shoot 1 arcane missile in that time. Another Paladin just ganked me and I couldn’t escape, I couldn’t spellsteal its ‘speed boost’ (buried under so many other buffs’), so …
WHAT the heck, is there any other explanation?
I know that the toxic gits and other !@%&"*s with bad parenting want to chime in with their insults and clichés, but I can spare you the effort. I have heard it all before (somehow THIS thought never enters a toxic player’s mind).
So spare your 'l2p issue’s, spare your 'git gud’s, spare your 'ur trash’s, spare your ‘crying’ statements, spare me your shaming language (toxically, I was even shamed and ridiculed for using the word ‘shaming’ at one point, which only proved my point, but whatever…)
Give me a proper explanation, or I am forced to conclude that there can be only one reason: Blizzard really and truly HATES mages. Why else would they have ruined the powerful arcane missiles and made them look so weak and chaoticly soft, like leaves flying in a gentle breeze instead of powerful minigun-type missiles, focused and to the point? Those things were genuinely SCARY - but these gentle leaves, although ‘as powerful’ (shrug), just don’t have the same psychological impact, and thus, not as fun by a long shot.
In any case… mage is ruined, good job, and thanks so much. DH is also ruined, so anything I play, seems to get ruined. I should play rogue, DK and warrior… maybe they’ll ruin them, too. And DAMN those druids that can’t be slowed down when they stalk me, what am I supposed to do about them? The only reason why I escaped a druid LAST time (and this druid took 3 of us and like 2 minutes of constant shooting to kill it, not tank, not healer), was because I happened to bump into our healer on the way.
Could you either stop hating mages and make them fun again, or remove the whole class so it’s put out of its misery at least.
