Looking at simcraft and logfiles, fire was far from a top DPS spec. Scaling shows we are falling behind heavily come 900+ gear as it is. Yet, we get hit by the wrecking ball. Summary follows
NERF:
Fire Blast: one charge only
Flame on: +1 charge only
Icy flows: gone
Rune of Power: Down to +40% dmg
Combustion: Nerfed to 50% mastery increase
BUFF/ADDITIONS:
Frenetics speed: useless talent, or maybe not since icy flows are gone
Controlled Burn: rnd hot streaks instead of Flame on talent
Cauterise: base spell, okay, but id rather not have an anti-skill talent compensate major dps loss
Legendaries:
- Bracers made completely useless
- Waist might become the best legendary considering flame on is practically gone
So they take away the reactive elements and replacing it with more rnd procs. This will completely destruct current fire mage play style even though it was a great and fund class to play!