For the obvious upcoming 11.7 rework. Pheonix flames is a problem that blizz are trying hard to shoehorn into the rotation, slow travel time and longish charge time, it struggles as an alternative to fire blast.
What if it was an alternative to pyroblast? Does less dmg on ST but hits 3 targets and THIS would be the ignite spreader. No charges, always available as an alternative to pyroblast with a similar long hard cast time.
While I’m at at it pyroclasm could also effect PF AND flamestrike. Hyperthermia just gives you perma hot streak for 6secs. Meteor is easily accesible in the fire tree with the class tree giving you a second charge. We need a bit of control over dmg spikes other than holding combustion.
Remove living bomb from flamestrike so you can buff flamestrike and redesign living bomb as something we can press. Again a nice boost to damage on aoe on demand please.
Buff flamestrike by having mastery effect it directly, and/or make it add to individual ignite banks without spreading or overriding anything (not sure of the ignite science here). Putting more mastery value into ignite would mean that it gains power as ignite spread builds gain power and makes it a better option in a rotation on add spawns as upfront damage if our 10sec dot is too slow.
Buff skb buff time so its less stressful to use in m+ dungeons with slow tanks or thirsty healers.
Or, contraversal, put skb and kindling on a choice node. Then I can go back to a powerful 1min combustion build for m+ instead of being forced into skb for 2 years now.
Remove IF and replace it with an alternative to RoP thats mobile then put RoP back to 2 charges and not auto drop. Make the auto drop an Arcane talent, it can auto drop every time they press Totm or something.
Sorry if I seem bossy blizz. Haven’t even bothered doing weekly keys on the mage for 2 weeks because I just don’t want to play it. It could just be me but I don’t think it is. I’m awful at rerolling but I can’t see me maining mage next patch for the first time since I created my mage in 7.2. That started off as the phoenix flames idea and got away from me, got myself all worked up. Need a cuppa tea now.