My Mage Sucks in 3.1…without spirit!
From the latest PTR build:
Molten Armor now causes 170 Fire damage when hit for all ranks (Up from 75/130/170) and also increases your critical strike rating by 25% of your spirit.
LOL HEY MAGES YOU THINK YOUR SPIRIT ON YOUR GEAR IS WORTHLESS HUH? WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE KEPT YOUR FILTHY BLUE MOUTHS SHUT CUZ NOW YOU’RE REALLY GONNA GET IT. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT! STACK SPIRIT OR ELSE YOUR FAVORITE BUFF IS WORTHLESS! HOW MUCH SPIRIT? OH, Y’KNOW, ENOUGH THAT YOU’LL NEVER GET UP TO THE LEVEL OF CRIT THE SPELL GIVES NOW! HAHAHAHAHA! BETTER GEM SPIRIT AND ENCHANT THOSE BRACERS YOU SORRY FUCKERS!
So glad I re-rolled!
Doesn’t it make you feel good to be a Mage again… just like old times?
March 20, 2009 at 1:56 am
Not sure if you’ve seen them yet but the interview with GhostCrawler blew my mind, though I shouldn’t have been suprised.
Some dudes short analysis: http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864846606&sid=1
The full questions (I believe): http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=15864856467&sid=1
So thats it, mage concerns answered! Just about all of it seems to be L2P nabs, and no compensation for utterly destroying imp scorch (Wtf was wrong with it when it actually gave damage scaling?) And then saying they’d have to nerf us somewhere else if they compensated for something theyd nerfed in the first place…
Maybe the dudes in full end game raid gear might get the spirit benefit on MA but its a nerf to everyone else, and stacking spirit means we lose out on other valuable stats, just cause apparently “no one uses it in pvp so its ok” /sigh.
March 21, 2009 at 5:25 pm
DK convert as well, i love the tier 8 4pc that gives Strudel an extra 10 on cast, oh wait they nerfed tha too.
March 23, 2009 at 4:23 pm
WTF
April 8, 2009 at 10:20 am
WTF EVERY FUCKING PATCH WE GET NERFED LIKE HELL NOW MY DPS WILL DROP DAMN BLIZZARD
April 8, 2009 at 10:21 am
L2raid nub, i still pull top 5
May 8, 2009 at 12:08 pm
I’ve just come back to my mage after yonks of being away from wow due to uni, and the first thing I said was omfg what the hell have they done to impact??
Also lol at the fireblast glyph with the “extra critchance on an enemy who’se stunned”, yet now one of the moves to actually stun them in the firstplace IS now fireblast, which is ofc on a cooldown, rofl.
/sigh
May 10, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Also yeah, so much for the “In the next patch we’re going to improve fire pvp viability”, then they reduce the only thing that gave us a couple of seconds o life against rogues and so on, to proc off ONE spell, ya then haveto get a further spell through, and hit for it to actually do the stun also.
What were they thinking?
May 10, 2009 at 2:36 pm
Well I have to say the changes are welcome after i have learned the new
paramaters and boundries.
it is aparent to me that i always seem to find an angle or slant with the amount of different ways to play a character. I currently pump out 6 k dps in raids usually topping the dmg and dps. i have roughly 1100 int and 900 spirit, both these stats scale well with raid buffs obviously. both these stats have multiple stacking benefits for mages of which the talent choice affects effectiveness. i am about at the point where i can afford to use a dps potion instead of a mana potion to chain cast for 10 min. just to let you know when im raid buffed my glyphed MA spell gives me like 12/100 extra crit chance! compare that to the capped 5/100 pre 3.1 !
back to the old days, sitting at 73/100 crit chance when clearcasting procs!
yay to healer type gear! and badass burst damage
May 26, 2009 at 9:46 am
Yeah, you’re complaining about this. But you’re a poor dumbass shmuck. 90% of Ulduar gear has spirit on it, you’ll be forced to have it. Raid buffed, I have around ~1k spirit, which equates to close to 12% crit bonus with molten armor up. That’s more than twice the amount it used to provide.
Enjoy facerolling on a DK, you’re not a big mage loss.
June 2, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Hey, shitpie. You can’t avoid having spirit. It’s not counted on itemization points anymore. It’s just part of the base gear. Molten armor gives me 10% crit, and I’m trying to avoid spirit as much as possible… It’s on every pieces, and as I said, you can’t avoid it. Molten became overpowered. Fully buffed, it gives me 13% crit, with over 50% total in raids. Suck it. Go play your skillless dk.
August 9, 2009 at 6:45 am
Wards being removed due to “no clear usefulness”, damp/amp magic being removed. 2 Straight line spells that anything other than an amoeba will be able to dodge, Shaman Heroism clone, fire (awesome survivability spec?) using hp to cast when out of mana, arcane (uber mana conserving spec?) doing good damage only on full mana, focus magic / frostfire bolt given to warlocks = my mage sucks in Cata?
May 9, 2010 at 2:34 pm