Originally Posted by
Koridian
The dmg a Frost Mage dishes out is not the problem. No doubt, if you're resilience is low, a Frost Mage will destroy you. At the high end of PVP, they're dmg is right in line with other classes. The problem is their high level of survival and control abilities and how each of them interact with each other to be even more overpowered. A Frost Mage possesses way too much utility all of which are on a rather low Cd I might add. And, they sacrifice "zero" in return. No other class has the following :
- 3 shields (including Ice Block), no other class possesses more than 1.
- 3 active ways to root a target, 1 passive way for a total of 4, no other class possesses more than 1.
- 3 mechanisms for CC (counter spell, sheep (no cd I might add) and freeze).
Add to the fact, a Frost Mage can hit you with 4 pts of attack at the same time (mirror image, flame orb, elemental and whatever the mage is casting at the time), no other class can you hit with more than 2 pts of attack, save one, a warlock.
If you subscribe to the thought PVP is imbalanced, you'll hate it even more after the next patch. Blizzards, for some unknown reason, wants Mages to be OP, that's the bottom line.