The saturation of Mages that we’re seeing currently is disconcerting. Watching Asmongold’s MC stream right now is incredibly eye opening.
I just don’t believe it’s healthy for the long term future of the game if we’re resigning ourselves to the fact that Mage will be, forever, the overwhelmingly dominant caster and indeed ranged class overall. I expected to see a lot more representation but it appears that as people have learned what these classes are capable of over the years, Mage has proven itself to be the undisputed number one ranged class.
Isn’t such high representation evidence that numbers do in fact need to be tweaked to ensure there’s a bit more variety and competition? What compelling argument could you make to a new player to persuade them to choose Warlock or Hunter when Mage appears to be so much more desirable due to their potency in all forms of content?
the setups are all same and every class has a place in the raid who cares if ur top dps or bottom dps if all classes are pressing one button? i believe u have 12 warriors or smth in everyraid 2 hunters some rogues only for gearfiller but WHO CARES
private server gzukds manage to clear naxx in dungeongear or aq/bwl so if u have gear u can even play moonkin or some memestuff easy raids
Except that the mage has always been the dominant caster in vanilla, with warlocks being there only to buff them with Curse of Elements? Boomkins and Elemental Shamans have never been considered raid viable anyway.
Omegalul. As a hunter fighting a mage you have squeeze every little utility you can find in game to beat a mage.
But as a mage, what do you do? Gap close with blink, do your rotation, hunter is bellow 50%, oh but BM pet is cucking you? Iceblock it is.
Hopefully they will fix hunter any time soon so they can fight with a chance to win.
And for the warlocks? They can just watch mage destroy them while they are trying to finish putting second dot on them.
Mage is the literally easiest class in game, even switching seals as paladin is harder than playing a mage, stop joking yourself.
Some extra edit because you were talking about solo play, OMEGALUL. Nova > Blizzard til 60. Topkek.
Not everyone makes 1 specific type aoe talent tree to play them, which is possible only after level 22 if you put each point properly, besides that is if you do not do quests and only aoe farm xp, as you can aoe only specific places with certain amount mobs and certain type.
If you will do quests you can’t aoe your way trough them, you will still have to use regular skills which is nightmare because of how squishy mages are.
It’s not so bad from what I’ve seen so far, but I’m weeks from endgame, too. Mage is a great class that requires a skilled player to play very well, and if these two parameters meet, it’s one hell of a character. They also have the most reliable CC in the game, so I can understand people preferring them in dungeon groups.
LFM spellcleave [insert instance], on the other hand, is a bit cringe.
Unironically makes me think you’re younger than Vanilla WoW. Ofc it is easy to dps with mage, if the mobs are hitting the tank and you’re being healed by a priest. Other than that, not as easy as it seems to be. Ask me how a mage knows about it.
Other than from 29-31 and from 47-50 I’ve played a single target shatter build and found it absolutely fine being to be able to kill around 3-4 mobs before drinking and taking little to no damage each pull.
Good for you , what can I say , I do not know your situation.
All I know is that mage solo is hard, way harder then almost every class because of having no heal, no tanking capability and dps is not that much larger, only thing that mage has is cc.
Dude, you should have done some research about the class balance in classic if you really didn’t expect this. This is how it was, mages are awesome. That’s just it. Rogues and warriors are the best pvp class at max level, mages are the best farming class and overall pve class.
Farming with blizzard is pretty OP and I’m pretty sure the first person to hit 60 in the original version of classic was indeed a mage. (back in like 2004 or somethin)
You may have been expeccting the wrong things, blizzard said they were releasing classic wow as it was within reason. Obviously implementing things for the launch of it so people can actually play the game (as long as they are not stuck in queue)
This is simply not true though. If mage was a difficult class to level without AoEing I’d be the first to admit it but it simply isn’t. As long as you stand at a decent range you should be able to get 2-3 frostbolts off before your target reaches you then you nova range the mob again repeat the process and finish off with a cone of cold or fireblast maybe weaving in an extra CoC / FB.
That’s it, that’s literally the single target mage rotation and it’s incredibly simple.
It would be true if you would be always able to pull just 1 mob, which is not case at all, if there would be no patrols, or simply running in more mobs because of aggro range and maintaining distance.