So I am relatively new to the Balance spec, I've been playing it roughly since the start of Legion.
So far I've been enjoying it. However there is this one thing that has been bothering me since I've started playing balance but I realized what it was only recently, after leveling an alt mage:
I don't feel like there is much "fantasy" in the way how our spells work and interact. In fact most of the spells and talents balance druids have feel extremely "gamey" (i don't like that word, but I can't think of anything more descriptive) to me.
Let me give you some examples (purely based on my own opinions):
- Frost mage: Slowing and freezing your opponents and then shatter them with bits of glacier. Everything is about colder temperatures and increasing the freezing power.
- Demo warlock: Summoning more and more demons and empowering those to deal more damage. Talents enabling you to summon more and more powerful demons.
- Feral druid: Cutting, ripping and shredding your opponent so it slowly bleeds to death. Talents increase the power of said bleeds.
- Fire mage: Just flames, fire and burning. Talents give you more flames, fire and burning.
All sounds pretty epic right?
Ok now how would you describe balance druids (I am exaggerating, I know):
So you are a fat bird and you call down the power of sun and moon which does not interact at all and you can't even see any proper effects on the targets. Their power can be improved by raining down tiny light particles for some reason, which suddenly interact with those. You then shoot more moon and sun spells at the target, which again does not interact in any way but can be empowered by a different star energy for no real reason. Then you drop a moon. Which is cool, but yet again, have no interaction with the other spells whatsoever.
And then you get to the talents and it's even worse, it's all just "reduced ap cost", "increased radius", "you get 2 instant spells", "more flat dmg on spell". I mean where's any fun in that?
I think the astral power building/spending should be the glue that hold everything together but i just don't feel it. And after getting ED and pretty much ditching the system of empowered LS and SW there's even less interaction.
Maybe I am missing something, maybe I am trying to look too much into it, but anyway, what are your thoughts?