Im sorry to say, but Fire mages is one of the top M+ specs right now on beta.Do more research, watch some top M+ mage streamers. and u will be amazed how broken they are. Peace.
Dr jay was doing like 30k dps pulls the other day on beta and people wonder why it gets nerfed...
Mages easilly scale out of control, it was justified.
frost already had a -15% damage aura so the change is not as big as it might seem
I dont know who does this balancing. But actually cudos for fixing / balancing it in a way that your Charakter doesnt plays bad and still feels well.
This is exactly blizzard - they have tons of time to do stuff but they will nerf your class 1 week before launch, then expect more nerfs after launch - because yes, they truly are $%^&*!ed and the only way your spec wont be changed MILION times during a expansion (like in legion) - is sadly playing CLASSIC only. Just give us TBC already, Shadowlands will fail like ALL expansions since that *!@#ed up garrison garbage expansion.
Uh I don't know because Frost Mage is a braindead spec that deals twice the dmg of others?
As a Frost Mage main, I approve of these changes. While it is fun to play a stupidly busted class, it's not healthy for anyone else. You know it's bad when even Memelance build is viable.
mmmmmmmm even with these nerfs, mages will still be top damage, if not in the start. After first major patch for sure
ice lance nerfed to the ground meanwhile ret pala final verdict hits for 20k but thats okay right blizzard
Warlock Afflict Have Immunity of Nerf ? Its the best Casters actually and we nerf Mages 3 times in 2 days lol ...Dh And Drood Cats continues to slack Low dps, no problem better ,nerf Shadow priest Mages and Hunter
Mages and Priests, burn them all
that nerf is the worst what was happened. flamestrike req target cap(-6%dmg is nothing), and nerf mage legendary ? what? firemage single target isnt so good. now really bottom tier. Where is hunter nerf? now mm totally dominance in raid and m+
It's always funny to see people cry about their class getting nerfed, with ridiculous arguments like "literally unplayable cant even kill 1 mob", when in reality their class/spec was overpowered, way above the rest of the pack, and brought back in line. But yea nah the sky is falling down and all that
stop nerfing spriest i hate you blizzard
Yeah fire mage is kinda busted in m+ in the beta, talking about pre-patch stuff and azurite traits here is just dumb, since this isn't a live patch.Ignite for fire mage is gone, so combustion isn't used for the same reason as before. Crit is also nowhere near as important for them in the beta as it was before, the best secondary stat for them is haste (by far, it has like a weight of 6, even after stacking it on everything) and then mostly versa.These nerfs might not be the end of the world for fire mages BUT! As long as the firestorm legendary has no internal cd they will still be pumping pretty hard when they get lucky.And when blizz adds the internal cd (or a target cap to flamestrike) they probably won't revert these changes, and just kill the spec entirely with the number of nerfs.