Originally Posted by
Plastkin
In no fight in this expansion is active AoE required, not even mythic Helya. It is better on every fight to have passive cleave and Fire is extremely bad at passive cleave. It's only good at burst AoE.
When every encounter is designed so your "niche" is a pointless trick that only has relevance in easy M+ dungeons, you most absolutely 100% should be buffed to be competitive at the only important metric this entire expansion (including NH): priority target.
False.
And they aren't supposed to, because Ion confirmed during the beta that because of the legendary/artifact systems that they were going to make sure every spec was viable. Blizzard has already stated that specs aren't supposed to be one trick ponies this expansion, and here we are. We have one trick ponies and people are like "fire mage is good, look at all these pad fights where this damage does absolutely NOTHING to kill the boss." Nice argument. Brilliant. 10/10. You're a genius.
I love it when people who are terrible at this game and have no understanding of it talk about balance. Go back to McDonalds, the fries are getting cold.