Patch 4.1 Public Test Realm Notes - March 22

Originally Posted by K0tY

Yay for the Frost mages buffs ! We need em frost is too weak in PvP I got killed by a 7 people yesterday, killed only 6 and 1 just soloed me

And they should nerf moonkins some more. I almost survived 4 GCD yesterday and did 50k damage.. I feel so OP because I can do damage by multi dotting in BG

/wrists

A much needed buff for frost mage. After all, they are 'just ok' if you read the Q&A #2. Ghostcrawler cannot tolerate them being just ok. They should make a special code to type on the creation screen to unlock frost mages: 'tgm'. Worked well in Fallout 3

Removing all these old and nice keys is lame... ILevel seems to be the new key.
The Uldaman key was one of the coolest things in WoW inis to open a door. Sad...no effort anymore for such things.

I think WoW is like nike..Just do it. You only need a pair of shoes...

i sold off all my guilds maelstrom crystal stock a few days ago, cause of the new heroics, this makes me doubly happy i did that. Plus i'm getting a title to make up for the fact that i've never once used this camel i found lol.

The Ring of Valor has returned! It should now be playable again in the Arena map rotation.




NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Meh, i kind of do like the achievement changes, wont hassle too much to get the Gilneas ones.
And ive gotten the Cough win like 4 times on my char.
p.s. had the Battlemaster for quite long.

How exactly did they buff the drops from those rare spawns?

Frostmages have great control but horrible DAMAGE over an extended period of time (hence the buff to damage not control). They can pull off good combos but it relies on good setup. Ugh I hate that pve performance has been nerfed to the ground for pvp balance already.

In addition, mages overall are pretty mediocre at the moment pve-wise - generally in the middle of the pack, not outperforming everyone and their mum.

The achievement "We Had It All Along *cough*" now requires the player to win Arathi Basin by 50 points or less, up from 10 points or less.


OH MY GOODNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Finally, I gave up on battlemaster almost a year ago now after finishing AV because I have played over 350 basins with a 65% win ratio and it's the only achievment i need.

THANK YOU

I play a Frost Mage, but i have and will never play Arena or BG. This was a needed buff! I really can`t imagine Frostbolt casting Frost Mages in an serious Arena fight.

Blizz is just plain out of touch with their own game.

No reason for frost mage buffs while other classes that could kill them (ahem druids) are getting the nerfbat over and over.

Ghostcrawler and whoever is doing this, you're doing a horrible job. I can't believe the development and design teams come to agreement on this garbage. My only wish right now, and this is a stretch, is that someone higher up in the company will see this nonsense and hire some people to run pvp who actually pvp instead of looking at pve numbers on spreadsheets.

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Originally Posted by yoitsme

Dmg on frostbolt and icelance was surely needed,up until now it hit like 25-30k shatter combo.Most classes global more then that.

You must be terribly geared if that's all your shatter combo hits for. Try 35-40k with both critting at entry level pvp gear.

Great...another buff on most powerful pvp class in this dying game... GOOD JOB!

Originally Posted by Mortalol2

First reputation from WSG/AB removed from battlemaster,SOTA nerf and now all this crap,well done blizzard now this title will be like Kinglasyer/Jenkins.

You do realize this one was a MASSIVE rng fest right? It had nothing to do with skill and with the nerf to premades down to 5 person limit it was......impossible to plan for. Same with some other achis. Hello AV perfection, the perfect storm etc. They need to bring back full premades vs pugs or you will NEVER get those. That is part of the reason i stoped playing, 50 EOTS matches and neither side got CLOSE to getting The perfect storm. I realized that achi was all about dumb luck which essansialy became the last nail in my wow coffin. 4 years of this and i am glad i left.

Blizzard has no friggin idea what the (/¤%# is going on in their own game.

First they say "Mages are balanced, they have high skillcap" yeah /%&¤& right, and couple days later:
* Frostbolt damage has been increased by 10%.
* Fingers of Frost bonus damage applied to Ice Lance has been increased to 25%, up from 15%

this really makes me rage if it goes to live.

Originally Posted by Roggan

The achievement "We Had It All Along *cough*" now requires the player to win Arathi Basin by 50 points or less, up from 10 points or less.


OH MY GOODNESSSSSSSSSSSSSS. Finally, I gave up on battlemaster almost a year ago now after finishing AV because I have played over 350 basins with a 65% win ratio and it's the only achievment i need.

THANK YOU

I just wish Frostwolf perfection could get a similair treatment, i.e wining with having Galv and all towers up only. why didnt i get it when it was bugged and you got it if galv was alive at the end? WHY, WHY, WHY?

Hard to believe a lot of what I am reading about mages and pvp.

I normally play a balance druid for rated bg's but decided to bring up my mage to 85. It is faceroll easy in scrub gear.

In battlegrounds and starter gear, I am seriously messing people up. The control is over the top, and shatter combos do so much damage that the opponent typically can't recover from it. Then just kite around. And yes, you do cast Frostbolt if the target is frozen immediately followed by ice lance or throw out Frostfire if the instant cast proc is up.

@people saying just dispel: In arena yes, you're more likely to have a dispeller at your beck and call. In battlegrounds, that may not always be the case.

Frost mage dmg buff is kinda needed. They really dont perform so well at higher ratings.

We had it all along *cough* - was really annoying, why the hell not... The "real" battlemasters have the title for years now and will sport their Rated BG High Warlords, amirite?

Holy Paladin buff - probably an attempt to finally fix them PvP wise, aka bring them on the same level as other healers. I dont think that this will do it.

Maelstorm Crystals - you stupid whiners dont realise that they are about to release 2 new 5mans you can chain queue all day every day with epic loot? If anything these dungeons will totally destroy price of the Crystals, not 1 crystal per 2000JP or how much they will cost. Not that anyone cares, it really isnt intended for the best enchants to cost what they cost now :P.

Hahahahahaahhahahahahahhahhahahahahhaha!!!!

IcespamLance and frostbolt buffed, by quite a bit.

Originally Posted by Grufindus

they are supposed to fucking nerf frost mages not buff them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU WERE THE COOSEN ONE BLIZZARD! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO NERF THE MAGES, NOT BUFF THEM!

You were my brother Ghostcrawler.........

lol what? They buffed us? Didn't they nerf us last time? Back to frost it is!