Well, bummer.
I expected that change as I always thought of it as a bug. But seriously? As a hotfix? Aren't there more urgent things to fix?
What I get FURIOUS about is when he's like "I'll make what I find fun", or "I think this is fun, sorry you don't".
Ask any amount of Mages on their opinions of the L90 talents. I guarantee you at least 85% of them will tell you they dislike/loathe them, and about 14% of the missing 15% will be indifferent. The last 1% are the really weird ones who actually like being heavily restricted.
He needs to understand what's fun to him is NOT necessarily fun to the majority of us, and it's really ticking us all off.
Still wondering why I play this game.
I'm a Rogue and I also made a spreadsheet for the Order Hall that is updated for BfA.
While I agree that they won't actively balance classes around soloing older content that does not make it irrelevant neither makes it not being raiding anything irrelevant. Raiding is but one part of this game and last time I looked it was not the only part of the game Blizzard and all players deemed relevant. Maybe you (both of you) should use a less general wording?
And who are you to decide that it isn't ? I too can play this kind of game.
Of course it is my personal opinion, but fact is they already said they wouldn't balance things around soloing. The important part is how well you are able to fare in comparison to other tanks in the current tier of raids.
It isn't a matter of balance if class X can't solo old raids like class Y does. It is only a question of how new mechanics work on old content. I never said it has no impact or importance on the game, I just said it wasn't linked in any way to balance. That is why I said it was irrelevant.
Pretty sucky for Cmodes/Quests/Heroics. Slight nerf in raiding. I don't think they needed to do this IMO.
Hi Sephurik
Also how does one make comment on endgame mages, when one is in near full pvp gear, with no meta gem/gems in some slots, and no enchants in others? Kinda lose your legitimacy to comment at that point imho.
Maybe if you were/had an endgame mage in pve 476+ gear then it might be a little more pertinent.
Just that calling it irrelevant implies that it is not relevant for anyone while saying it is not irrelvant means that at least one person feels it is relevant. This is why I said maybe you should be more careful with generalisations, because while I agree that they most likely won't change the class balance to make everyone equally able to solo old content it is still something I care about. And Blizzard seems to think so, too, at least they cared enough to change old boss encounters. So while they won't give it a very high priority I think they would keep it in mind.
I gathered that I misunderstood your posts from your follow ups, but from the lack of context in the post itself there certainly was no grounds to not to take it the way I did. Because there was no mention of "Blizzard" in your post and the connection to "balance" was not clear, and even if there was, there is evidence that it might be of (minor) relevance to balancing for them now.