ilvl 230 killed me in 3 pyroblasts. When I was playing on my ilvl 474 guardian druid with 1million hp and just testing it for fun in duel. So he was legit doing about 100k dps on me
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It blasts for sure…
But takes about an hour to make the cast. So that would be the downside…
Idk about druids, but i can interrupt, stun, freeze trap and feign… That makes for a sad mage, not 100k DPS.
Gear doesn’t matter with that ability, it’s % based.
But without it, Fire mages would suck.
Excluding druids:
Polymorph : Kicked
Cast Greater Pyro
Polymorph: Not kicked
Cast Greater Pyro
shimmer in-between for good measure 
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is okay just use mass spell reflect and you and all of your buddies will be fine for a single cast
Yes it is op. Its stupidity shows the best if you go to bg and face 2-3 monkeys that just spam this bs ability…no gear no “skill” no gameplay nothing…just deleting people. And you cannot persistently kick 3 guys spamming that sh!t.
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It’s only op if you let the mage cast a 4 second cast on you multiple times in a row. Fire doesn’t have much going for it apart from gpyro anyway in PvP. Or well, you do have combustion, but that’s not that amazing seeing as the opponent can just pop def cd’s in response.
besides being the best PvP specc in the game?
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The other mage specs are much better if you take gpyro away from fire. It’s nothing special without it. Combustion, and no damage outside of it.
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How did you manage to let a mage get 3 pyros off? Before asking if something Is OP you need to ask yourself “what could I of done differently”
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ah so that’s why everyone plays fire in PvP.
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Because of Greater Pyroblast, yes.
And combust. It’s not just because of Gpy, there are lots of high rated team not even playing Gpy.
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Couple things that I am wondering about here.
Pretty sure that GPY takes 35% of the mage’s HP when it faces a target with more HP. Otherwise they’d be able to three shot any tank-specced flag carrier, which they never really do.
Were you afk or? You have 2 charges of a 32% heal, 2 charges of Survival Instincts and a Barksin. Besides like 5 abilities to interrupt a caster. What on earth were you doing?
That is just not true - GPie have little bit different interaction with tanks and Guardian Druid in particular - it seems it does not takes in consideration bonus HP from mastery so you need 4 to 6 minimum to get bear down (with base cast time 4.5 sec reduces by haste) and that is without any defensives or healing used by said bear.
In conclusion - if someone casting on you for 20+ seconds while you standing AFK you probably should be dead.
we tested greater pyroblast for fun if it was unclear
In conclusion - if someone casting on you for 20+ seconds while you standing AFK you probably should be dead.
he is ilvl 232. I shouldnt die even if i go afk. He is literally doing 2k dps in dungeon.
This is what a guardian druid has to use against greater pyro.
- Racials, apart from troll to interput or stun
- Survival instinct x2 (take the punch out the meatball)
- ranged interput (15 sec CD)
- stun charge (pvp talent)
- typhoon on 30 sec CD (knock back which will interput)
- Stun if you don’t take typhoon.
- Shapeshift out of root and dash out of range.
- Frenized regen x2 ( heal 32% hp over 3 secs) instant cast, pop and heal.back.that damage quickly.
Druids have lots to counter fire mage if they dumb enough to stand there and just cast greater pyro.
A skilled fire mage, probably not.
I don’t mind this ability when I’m dealing with one mage. But when there are at 2-3-4 doing the same… yeah it sucks.
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He’s other player “current content player” Legion accounts are still there so 110 should have a slightest chance especially against AFK player - if you stand still against say my 110 hunter you will also die in about 20 seconds. Give or take, just because of scaling.
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Add PVE as well.
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