It is probably the most boring and annoying spell in the whole game.
(posting here because mage forum is essentially dead now)
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You can remove from Talent Choices. If you dont like it.
Move at Incanter’s Flow from Rune of power.
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No, thats not what im talking about. You as a hunter probably dont understand how horrible the spell is. Also it is a huge dps decrease to not have it for your combustion.
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Eh, I’m playing mage for my alt. What I knew mage’s skills.
Also I read about Ice-Vein say Incanter’s Flow is better than Rune of Power.
What the rude.
Then maybe they should remove combustion instead, then you’re free to choose a talent that fits your playstyle, problemo solved.
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Well, there’s always going to be a best talent for each row. The whole covenant debacle happens precisely because Blizzard are trying to break the meta gameplay. If they succeed(which I doubt), then they could tackle talents too.
You do realize that combustion is basically the most important fire mage cd? Although i think they should tone down the burst damage in favor of more sustain.
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its not a problem that there is a best talent, it is a problem that this specific spell is the best, and the spell is very boring and badly designed.
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They dont have to, there already is second option ( which is quite popular) that allows you to have “weaker” comb but way often which results in less burst but more sustained dmg.
Also, without huge mastery amp, lucid dreams and bracers ( both for resets of blast) their comb isnt that strong, so actualy kinda curious how they handle “balancing” in SL, because without that essence and bracers their comb is like 50% weaker…
But that’s just more frequent burst, most of your damage still comes from a cd. So rune of power will win.
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Then don’t pick it. No way in hell I’m picking a talent which decreases my mobility.
Never ever used it since it was implemented, except vs. a target dummy in a city once.
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it is mandatory for any decent fire mage to have + during combustion especially - in pve.
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Thats same with evrry class tho, look at paladin, they hit like wet noodle but once they have wings they go god mod
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I think you can be decently effective even without it. What will happen if you don’t pick it?
wings is instant cast and doesnt affect your mobility, so its not comparable at all.
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Not to the level of fire mage, and yea i think it should be toned down a bit, but it’s with crusade that they actually do all of their damage in a cd, normal wings are not that powerful, like combustion.
Fire mage is just all or nothing, they either do insane damage or nothing, i do not think that is very good.
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They will only remove it if it’s chosen by too many players. As long as many mages pick the other talents on that row there is no problem.
Just pick Incanter’s if you dont like Rune but pls don’t nerf or remove it. I’m pretty sure Incanter’s is also more or less the same dps over the course of a long fight but Rune is essential for getting those big combust’s off with crazy big numbers and I would hate to see it removed or simplified. (There’s already Incanter’s for that!)
its not even close to same numbers, because fire mages dps is entirerly reliant on the burst during combustion, which is why 430 font trinket is better than 465 whatever.
My dps with this shjt gear is like 250k on single target combustion, and it drops to like 39k outside (in simcraft), with heroism all flasks, pots and buffs included.
My fireball 1.7s cast literally hits like 14k with no rune of power.
Using incanter would be a giga dps drop.
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Thats why there is second build for that, so u have higher uptime on comb so u do more often “something” but less in burst windows than regular comb.
Also this all comes again down to interaction between bracers+essence+comb and its overal balance on fire mage. Like their firebal do like 2% of their overal dmg… Because they have comb to balance it out