Everyday im questioning my decision to keep play this game

Classes Mage
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whoever is in charge of mages, needs to be fired. im done even trying to defend this

whoever, has been, in charge, of mage changes, for midnight, needs to go, like, u are DESTROYING this class, to a point i didn’t even think it was possible… im being 1v1 by literally every class and spec in the game. im losing 1v1 ranged froma retri, outhealing my dmg, out damaging all mmy defensives, ITS NOT EVEN CLOSE. he is dpsing me while in sheep with his channel, i got no heals, my barriers are paper, and my dps is nowhere to be seen.

and retri is one of the classes i was still considering PLAYABLE AGAINST

like, idk, anymore, why im wasting my time on this game at this point

”the pruning of midnight”
was just
THE PRUNING OF MAGE.
u took away like, 10 defensives off mages, for B tier dmg
and next patch looks exactly the same
2 barriers are not gonna solve any problem on arcane
dmg is laughable, prismatic bolt replacing arcane blast is also awful, 40% rng cap to get it, AWFUL
even with prismatic bolt, 20 stack salvo barrage touch, thats not even 40% enemy hp bar tied to rng and hardcasting mechanics

U HAVE BEEN, LOSING, YOUR MIND.
whoever is in charge, of mage, and even more, arcane
WHAT THE F are u doing.

hunters 100-0 with 1 rapidfire in rated without berserk
devourer with 2 atutoattacks
fury with deathwish get 10 killing blows before i get 1.
even voidweaver dps is miles ahead of arcane
shaman press ascendence and if i don’t have block im guaranteed dead
rogues still have garrotte silence and just their dots go though barriers later and forces your block evne if they are in cc after their opener
sudden demise just kills you w/e u are low, awful design to play against.

ive died, from full hp, with shield, with precog, before my arcane surge cast was over, from a ww monk

idk anymore, if those are overtuned, or its just mage being paper in this game rn, we got 0 walls, 0 defensives, a 5minute useless ice block cd that unless u have a healer “omg we play arena 3v3 ofc we have a healer” , not everyone has

im useless in teamfights
im useless in any fight tied to healers
im somewhat useful in some 1v1s, and thats because i can run away if it gets tight.

but what do u do when u cna’t run and u have to contest a pvp objective ?
how do u play vs “seeing ins stealth flyhacking immune to cc lazer beam from eyes” classes ?

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Play MoP bro while its still going on and enjoy everyday. After that its nothing but abyss. Mostly. TWW was an exception. Not the norm. Sadly.

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You mostly talking about arcane? Frost seems to be the best caster rn?

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Problem is that on retail Mage is now a support class in PvP and glass cannon without the cannon in PvE. Ray of Frost and Glacial Spike is anal design.

Fire is boring outside Combustion and they now force everyone to Pyroclasm in next patch. Hardcast Pyro that always crits and does XXX% more damage should be baseline, on top of what we can do during movement phases and waiting Combustion (Combustion could have choice node that focuses either in activated ability that makes next spells crit or passive choice that focuses on Ignite. Ignite has been dog after Cata. 14 years either too weak or sometimes op. Make Cauterize an activated ability that consumes your DoT and heals you. Put Blazing Speed into Mage Tree.

Arcane was fine in TWW and Midnight ruined it, but it looks like Arcane will be The spec in 12.1.

So Frost was the only viable spec to play at first. Now its Arcane’s turn. Im guessing Fire will stay in the abyss until next expansion. And if its the same clowns designing it will continue to stay bad.

Fire was great in Wrath, Cata, MoP, Legion and TWW. Rest of the time not so much.

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