Glacial Spike fun right? Wrong

Classes Mage
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So let me get this straight. A random 200k radiant decree (with 4 modifiers of which 1 is rng) is not fine, but a glacial spike hitting me in my face for 210k is balanced and ok?

Ret pickrate is 5% in 3s, frost mage is 9%. Not good but not terrible on both sides, so anyway. It’s fine for me to get hit 200k but when I hit someone 200k its a problem? I call bs and class bias on the dev team

It went like this. Ohh someone got hit 200k by a ret. Nerf -33%.

Ohh someone got hit 180k by Glacial spike from a mage. Buff it 10%, round it up to 200k

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i do like round numbers

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Someone got hit by an insta cast from Ret for 200k.
Versus
Someone got hit from a 3 second cast from Frost mage for 180k.

Do the math.

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There’s literally no reasonable comparison.

An instant cast, 15 second CD ability, that costs 3 HP or less (with talents).

Against an ability that requires 3-5 Frostbolts/Flurry/frozen target Ice Lance casts (with talents) and has a 3 second cast time.

It’s far harder to shoot an ice chunk at your face than it is for you to lul in someone’s general direction.

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Yeah, 40 yard range versus 10 yard range. “Do ThE mAtH”. I thought we didn’t like one shots? :grinning:

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I don’t.
But glacial spike isn’t a one shot, it takes forever to set it up. Just like Arcane mage took forever with Siphon Storm (which they nerfed lmao)
Retri is “hurr durr wings pop ded”.

(i play rogue in pvp btw)

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At the end of the day, the important thing is you got a glacial spike in your face :grin:

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Doesnt take forever. Takes less time than a 200k radiant would. I need 8 globals to set up a 200k radiant :joy: dont br silly

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bruh how do you dare. they hAvE tO cAsT iT so it’s totally fine okay?? frost mage is a joke. needs nerfs. playing the most mobile class ingame and I still can’t connect

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You get to actually use Glacial in maybe 2/10 arenas

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What about bgs? In arena you just frozen orb and icelance someone into oblivion

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Yeah, cause melee makes it impossible to actually cast anything

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Bunch of npcs defending a poor class design.

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Go reroll mage, spec frost and alet me know how pumping out Glacial Spikes work for you. Let me know how casting stuff in general plays out

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Jealous paladin, sitting in his jealous bubble, throwing jealous hammers

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Well, when I see the glacial spike cast going off while I’m being targetted I instantly use defensives. However, with ret, you got just oneshot instantly, no time to react.

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or maybe you’re just mad cause bad

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Please follow the poster’s advice creating making pointless discussions.

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