Have you guys tried DK, paladin, warrior, priest, warlock…?
I decided to create a main mage at the beginning of wow remix. Since then, I keep hearing ohh arcane etc etc…
Guys, all the other specs in the game are more dynamic than arcane. On my DK and paladin, I just have to press buttons.
Fire was the most interesting spec, but it’s bad in damage, maybe you’re competing with the healer…
Frost is ± in damage, but slow and it’s competing with warlock destruction which is also broken.
If the nerfs keep happening to the mage, bye bye for using it in this expansion
I main fire mage since legion and don’t realy care too much about bis spec.
Why i enjoy fire is the freedom you have with Mobility, Alot of instant casts and Dots you put on the enemy.
Overall it might be lower dps but its able to do burn down a enemy Very fast out in the world. 1-1.5m Dps Right at start for 10-20 seconds and when burst ends i stop trying to keep my rotation going and instead Focus on Kiting and regain cooldowns to Unleash all you got again. Fire can be a good spec for Survival.
And blizzard is watching closely on the performances of classes. Right now its buffing with this week reset.
Those buffs result in almost nothing. Living bomb is still bad. And you will still be 300-400k dps behind Arcane and Frost.
I leveled as arcane to 70 as a new mage player and the spec just suxx for solo open world play. Its outright horrific.
Meanwhile I was stomping stuff with ret/warrior and even wl has a better grip on aoe pulls even though its the same kind of exhausting gameplay.
I’m relieved that more people in our community also see this. I couldn’t express better my journey with mage arcane.
Regarding the frost fire bolt hero talent 110% damage on spell power.
For a spell that takes 2 sec to cast… Seriously for me it is a meeehh… Not convinced at all it is a hero talent.
We have melee skills doing same/more damage with instant cast!!!
Comparing with other casters. (Warlock)
Caos bolt takes 2.1 sec and gives 260% damage on your spell power.
In summary the game changed a lot from vanilla to retail. There a lot of things happening in all flights, 2s for meeeehhhhh damage is punishment for casters.
It is not good people just don’t want to play horrendous fire which is understandable and frost is always undertuned so arcane is the only spec they have to like.
I was fire at the start, I have always been a fire mage fan since Cata. I personally just found fire a little bit weaker this time around and fancied a change to Arcane. I myself am enjoying it so far running heroic dungeons its great for dps. I am not really gonna be raiding, I will be doing M+ so I would imagine Arcane will still be more beneficial with the type of dungeons we are to get in the first season.
Because i find it fun to play. Don’t care if its best spec for dps as long as its fun because why would i play a videogame where i would play “best” spec/class but have no fun while playing it.
Frost is kind of fun but i just lose interest to it quite fast and fire was fun last time at first few months of MoP.
I am currently trying mage again for the first time since vanilla wow. I am having a blast in dungeons as an arcane mage and it is very very fun to play BUT doing the tww story quests or other open world stuff is hands down the worst experience ive ever had in any mmorpg.
No class I’ve tried out has ever been so squishy. This literally forced me to level my mage through dungeons.
