WHY CHANGE THE MAGE?
the mage has always been a special class with their high burst in pve, cc’s for pvp and aoe farming capabilities. But now you seem to want to change the class for the worst, by changing the the way we can farm in dungeons. I’m not just talking about solo farming, but ill get to that. When a mage is in a group, they can be the saviors of a bad run, with their aoe kiting control. Pull one too many packs and we’ll put down a blizzard and save the day. Tank dead? LoS and blizzard for control whilst the others dps and heal.
The feeling of this is incredible, when you are able to save the day for your team mates. but now this will no longer be a thing you can do.
In the outer world, the first 3 months of wotlk will be a mess, you’ll never be able to quest or outer world aoe farm. Why you ask? Because there will simply be too many people…and I can bet with confidence there will be palas and mages paying pvp protectors so they can keep the aoe farms to themselves.
All your changes are going to do, is make it worse on the other players, as people will do anything in their power to dominate a aoe farm if they have no other choice. So they could go farm a instance you say… then they get loot and are happy? well no, the changes to mage are mobs after a short time will no longer be kiteable in an instance, so solo instance farming is out off the question now. So we cant aoe farm in an instance and we cant save our mates in a bad run. So at this point why even play a mage.
I get blizzard wants to stop boosters and that can be fixed with a simple xp nerf, which will end boosting for good. Personally i think thats a bad decision, because there’s no farm in wow that will help you keep up with the crazy amount off gold people buy nowadays. at least this way you can keep up in some way, but not anymore.
At the end off the day i get why the xp nerf needs to happen, but not the way we kite and aoe, there’s no reason to change that other than the fact that you want to.
Final point is without solo instance levelling, the outer world problem has been made ten times worse and there’s nothing bad with just wanting to solo a instance, put some music on and level with out people bothering you. I mean i think thats why most people play mage in the first place. please understand i have only been playing wow for just over a year and i have only ever played mage. 7 level 70 mages over 3 accounts all to learn, meet new people and show off a little when the time comes and learning how to do these aoe farms is one off the most enjoyable things in wow for me, but no more.
Please think about the changes. don’t take away the uniqueness from the mage. Please.