Every expansion, or every time they update spell graphics, i constantly wish and dream for that lovely frost & fire aesthetically pleasing spell to once again be reimplemented into the game.
Why Blizzard do you deny mages such a wonderful spell. I’d even use it if it were the worst tool in the arsenal.
Because the ability is fundamentally designed to accomodate a frost/fire hybrid build in the talent system…
… which Blizzard made impossible in the expansion after the ability was added by firing the guy responsible for it and the talent system, then switching to the “you must commit to this tree first” then followed by the new talent system.
Hope that cleared it up.
“Frost and fire doesn’t make sense huehuehue” was actually their official reason back when it happened.
Then I remember sometime in Legion seeing Frostfire in other areas.
Yeah Mages are either fire or frost… not really both anymore.
And the removal of Hybrid specs occurred around 3.3, mainly because more people were getting wise to the crazy dps, or burst they could cause from unintended talent interactions… and blizzard just decided it was impossible to balance.
I can remember PuG groups with my rogue in ToC and Onyxia and being pulled up by my really odd spec… until they saw me pulling way more dps… XD
You say that, while Mages get Frostbolt and Fireblast baseline. 
Yea, I have just started leveling a Frost Mage. Not only do I have a Fire spell in my spellbook, it also does decent damage so I pretty much use it on cooldown.
This is weird and really breaks the Frost theme my mage has.
I loved the frostfire bolt spell, literally one of my fave visuals I ever had as a frost mage, stopped playing a mage soon after it was removed.
Yeah, cause they fired the guy responsible for class balance. That’s why the whole attitude changes.
This happened in 2010.
They also all have portals, and arcane intelligence, and time warp which are all arcane magic spells… but they can still only specialize in one or the other.
Fireblast / Frostbolt are spells that compliment your main toolkit in frost or fire respectively… but frostfire bolt was much more of a main defining ability… that made sense when you could cross spec, but must less so now.
You hit me in the nostalgia tbh. I loved instant frostfire bolts. Something about it felt good.
But so many NPC mobs still use frostfire bolt. I think i’ll go online and start a petition to have it reinstated into Shadowlands
God how I forgot this skill…
I remember when I played TBC for test mage. Yes it is frostfire, was look cool.
Mila Kunis and Henry Caville play WoW. Maybe if we could get them to back our desire to have this fancy spell brought back, WoW will listen to the millions of us desiring it.
Coolest thing anyone ever created for Mages. Hybrid fusion was the best. Too bad they want to design for idiots.
I remember it, it’s still the coolest looking spell WoW ever had imho.
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