Is fire mage going to be s-tier in season2?

Classes Mage
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I watched a few videos that said that fire mage will be s-tier, frost will be A tier and arcane would be B-tier

What do you guys think?

2

Doubt it, I don’t think we’ll have enough stats yet, and they’re heavily nerfing our instant cast cooldowns and proc rates.

3

I heard the new tier set is giving us a ton of fire blasts? Haven’t done homework yet

4

Maybe, due to the increased uptime and reduced cooldown of Combustion.

But then they’re also increasing the cooldown on Fire Blast to 14 seconds, from 12, and reducing the number procs from things like Hyperthermia, so we’ll likely have less instants to fire off during Combustion to naturally keep its cooldown low with Unleashed Inferno.

5

  • Unleashed Inferno damage bonus increased to 70% (was 60%).

  • Sun King’s Blessing damage bonus reduced to 260% (was 280%).

  • Hyperthermia chance to trigger increased.

Looks like they rolled back the change to hyperthermia.

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6

Shamans will continue to dominate.

7

Fire mage is S tier next season

8

Sunfury or Frostfire?

9

We don’t know if fire mage will be meta. The meta is a combination of dps, defensives and synergies between different classes / specs.

Aug, fire mage and vdh are looking strong. That’s all there is to it.

10

Sunfury + unleashed inferno. There is a possible unleashed inferno frostfire build BUT according to the mage discord it plays extremely clunky.

11

The reason mage is so often meta is because of it’s toolkit. If mage has on par dmg with the best specs it’s usually meta.

12

Yeah. I know. Doesn’t change the fact that we don’t know if mage will be meta.

13

Hunters will be meta. Forget about mage.