Depends where you are at with your main spec. If you are stuck at what...rank 20 your artifact, sure.
However, note that the cost for each point spent in the artifact rises exponentially (particularly after the 13th) as you unlock them. Unlocking two golden traits is still a chore but easily manageable. Now I ask you to look further, to someone who sunk all their AP into one spec over the course of many months. If you look at a maxed rank 34 artifact, which requires a total of 5,216,130 AP, I ask you to show me the math how you want to get your secondary spec to 95% performance of the mainspec in 3-4 days (even with maxed AK), all this while we haven't even mentioned the bonus traits which provide a flat % increase to output.
Show me how you grind that in 3-4 days and I will be forever grateful to you.
You can't do it in 3-4 days, from 0-30 traits (at least not yet). However, you don't need to. If the spec that you are changing to is significantly above the spec you currently play, you can just switch. If its not better, then you don't switch until it is. I don't see the problem.
This is the issue that hybrid DPS have had to deal with since forever. If you are a poor Elemental Shaman you have no choice, you have to suck it up and deal with it and pray to blizzard. If you are a Mage, you can just suck it up for a week or two, get your second artifact to a "good enough" point and swap.
https://www.simulationcraft.org/reports/Raid_T19H.html
He's referring to this.
They aren't though? Fire was the second place dps spec only behind shadow priest in at least Mythic EN. MM hunter was just below it... Blizzard obviously saw these specs as being too powerful and needed to nerf them to be in line with other classes. You want them to just buff every other spec and class to be at the level of fire? Blizzard wants to make small incremental changes to specs to bring them more in line with each other. I like this idea.
Also you're casually forgetting to mention the obvious buff Fire mages received to their AoE.
So funny.
If you think your spec is worse, reroll to another one. What it will take now with AK 10/11? 3-4 days to get all important traits you farmed for a month on main?
Also, i play fire mage now. Have 3 golden traits unlocked and loads of unused AP stocked. Also have arcane and frost sets, which i was gathering just in case, while you were whining that the RNG sucks.
So this thread is "i picked fire due to it being the most op rather than what i actually wanted to play and waiting for it to be buffed now another spec is .5 better than me i can't FoTM re-roll as i could previously because specs actually require more than 5 minutes of time investment so i am pissed"
Same with the legendaries.
Blizzard designed legendaries and artifacts around picking the spec you want to play and sticking with it not dancing to the next op class and spec that comes along.
Bottom line unless you are raiding for world firsts class and specs tables are largely irrelevant i picked Destro lock which was underperforming from day 1 and enjoyed it regardless because that's what i enjoy playing and knew eventually Blizz would sort it out.
Nope, he said exactly that arcane is now better than fire. Learn to comprehend what you read, okay?
You probably didn't catch that fire was actually slightly nerfed for single target especially, and that MM hunters were actually nerfed. Nothing of what he wrote was hypothetical.
That said I don't agree with him, both fire mages and mm hunters are clearly still strong specs.
Besides, Aimed Shot nerf is roughly 5% to the spell, of which is about 50% of your overall single target damage... a few seconds thought should lead you to the conclusion that it's a going to be about a 2.5% nerf to ST for a spec that is way, way better at spread AoE through Marked Shot and Barrage.
Now, that said, I don't really understand why it was done nor why such a tiny amount!
Ended up quoting the wrong person in my above post.
That's not how that works though. DKs offer virtually no raid utility and have two dps specs and a tanking spec. Warrior offers significantly more raid utility and has the same exact spec layout but warriors are much stronger at all roles than DK is. If what you said is true, both warriors and dks should be equally lower than a class like Mage.
To put another spin on this: The highest dps spec in the game over the last two weeks on Mythic and Heroic EN was shadow PRIEST. The class with two healing specs and a dps with multiple utility spells like healing and stuff was the highest before 7.1. If sims are any indication (which they usually aren't) the new top dog will be Feral druid and that class if the definition of hybrid. Do it all class with healing utility, a battlerez, mobility cooldowns, etc. It has everything yet here it is potentially at the top.
Also Warlocks. Back when they were shit tier my guild still took two. They have some of the best raid utility in the entire game with their warlock portals and they're a pure dps class but did horrible damage. See why this idea doesn't work?
I don't want to hear it with your hybrid tax ass self.
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Threads like this make me laugh, this is the kind of people who chose his class looking who perform better instead of which one they like more, I'm sorry but if you have chosen your class looking the dps ranks you deserve the nerfs, the people who like specs like arcane can't be buffed and enjoy beign his best spec for his class some months because some FOTM players decided be fire to be top 1? . And if you are that kind of people who only enjoy being the top class of the moment, this is not your expansion.
So the complain is that now you have 3 specs that are at the top of the charts rather then 1?