Fire mage is still untouched.
It’s all pissing blood for an average damage and once you fail the setup in m+, you are just a mob throwing nonsense. There shouldn’t be that much math and prediction to know when can you use your “burst” ability that makes you a decent damage in the fight, yet to know if it’s long enough you might get it on the next fight. 621 ilvl, happy for an 1,2-1,3m arakara global, sweats, potions, oils, foods involved, yet declined from 19/20 m+ applications even though I already did that key level to ++ multiple times.
In pvp they just don’t care I’m throwing everything at them. They just throw more back and think it’s a fair trade. 18% combustion extra damage on specific spells and 10% barrier healing is a joke in pvp, especially when it’s dispellable. I simply walk away from every mage v mage because it’s just a luck of who gets to steal the other barrier first, because that mage will steal the alter time too. Absolute banana, I remember in shadowlands it was the meta to pick trishield for steal protection then mass spellsteal pvp talent against other mages and who stole first with mass spellsteal just lost in a mirror scenario.
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I would be destro, so no thanks.
edit: wait destro is strong damn, but still no portals and free food. I can’t maintain an alt but great suggestion though.
It is a joke, I see some specs doing millions in dps on every mob pack without using CDs, then doubling that with their CDs.
While we just about match them (and exceed them on larger, long-lived pulls) with CDs, but then fall to tank damage without CDs.
If they die or get CCed during burst, no big deal. If we die or get CCed during burst, our overall damage gets straight up screwed. Hell, even having to use barrier or dispelling curses, can screw up Combustion.
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Retri paladins, for example, can burst every pack while me as Arcane have to wait for all my cds to catch up with their dps and pray that RNG gods will favor me. Shamans have several spells that crit much higher than Arcane Barage, all insta with about 30% overall crit. DKs in M+ tournament pulled 20M+ aoe dps without dying…Why Blizz hates mages so much? It is supposed to be the king of dps class and now we are a joke compared to melees…
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Feels like every time they"balance" classes they have the new guy in the company doing it ,if they stopped remaking the talent trees so often they would get the numbers right to know how a class behaves in st , cleave and aoe scaling with the talents by now . I undertand that fire mage in mobile and cd can be very shor with but aint casters in general supposed to feel more powerfull with 1 spell than a guy dancing arround with daggers arround the boss for example? Meta atm in m+ is so melee heavy that if you realy wanna push keys u can only play as aug or elemental as caster. Is this supposed to encourage diversity of classes and specs?