Originally Posted by
dennisdkramer
I'd prefer if all the specs were balanced, but honestly I am excited to see fire mages eat some of their own medicine, yes.
top 10 ranks at 489 as a highly-played spec, that actually is pretty impressive. As I said the nerf does seem excessive, I hope they can tweak the numbers so that fire is just brought in line with frost/arc and not below them.
That aside you may be good but that doesnt negate the fact that fire's skill cap is pathetically low. I'm talking about patchwerk single target dps, but honestly its low for high movement as well because of how good scorch is. Frost's skill cap (imo) is even a little low compared to some specs (DoC Feral, for example). My problem isn't that fire's dps is high or that it's skill cap is low.. my problem is that its the easiest to play AND the best dps which should never be the case (imo ofcourse). They've done a *great* job with the balance with feral talents for example. DoC is the hardest and when executed correctly is the best dps. HoTW and NV are both good and competitive in DPS but a little worse in exchange for added utility cooldowns and being a little easier to play.
Game design is complex, but its not THAT hard to just reduce the coefficients to bring fire in line, rather than hotfixing massive sweeping nerfs. Blizzard makes me tired..
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