Hey,
I've been thinking about it for quite a while how to fix the biggest problem with the Fire specc and how to make it possible to balance it without having to buff/nerf the specc massively between the content patches.
I wanted to share my Idea in hope that there is nothing I oversee that would make such a thing impossible and after that making a thread on the Blizz Forums in hopes that the devs see my idea:
Add a passive to the fire specc that increases his critical hit chance by 30%-40% (So that he has a chance of 50% to land a critical hit) and at the same time reduce the critical hit damage by 60%-70% (Just some numbers, I didn't do any math if or if not the numbers are within reasonable levels). Critical hit rating reduces the effects of the passive to the point that when reaching 50% crit alone from crit rating on gear, the passive is effectively +0% crit / -0% crit hit damage.
With such a passive the fire mage would be IMO more enjoyable because he would feel more like the end-content mage minus the haste rating, and blizzard could balance the fire mage once and wouldn't have to fear that the fire dps skyrockets because they don't have to compensae for the lack of crit early on with stronger Pyroblasts (ust like they did today with the 35% PB buff).
With more gear and more crit rating on the gear the mage may not feel stronger because the crit % wouldn't change until probably the last content of the addon, but he would still become stronger due to getting back his critical hit damage making his crits hitting harder and harder without suddenly having enough crit to chain Pyroblast which would still be overbuffed from previous patches due to low crit ratings.
So, what do you think about my Idea to fix one of the core problems the fire specc currently has? Do you see flaws in my Idea that I can't see or have another Idea of your own?
Please let me know!