Because not all specs take Mastery as a stat, and as such it would not buff the class equally. Buffing Mastery would leave Haste Arcane and Crit Fire where they are, and it would only affect Mastery Arcane and Frost PvP, making all the Mages flock to Arcane again.
GC said they wanted to keep the parity between the specs.
37 + (3*7) + (3*7)W/L/T/Death count: Wolf: 0/1/0/1 | Mafia: 1/6/0/7 | TPR: 0/4/1/5SK: 0/1/0/1 | VT: 2/5/2/7 | Cult: 1/0/0/1
Any buff in any spec is welcome. Don't need to be OP, just competitive.
I think they wont buff Invocation because Frost (pve/pvp) is quite fine atm. 10% more Dmg by Invocation could be a little too much.
I could imagine:
-Arcane Blast mana costs back to 1.5 (from 1,66)
-Arcane Blast/AM dmg increased 10%
-Pyro 10% nerf reverted
-Fireball dmg 10% increased
-Frostfirebolt dmg 5% increased
I'm guessing something lazy along the lines of XXX Armour also increase damage done by 5/8/10%.
'In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, “We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields.” '
Thou shalt not covet. Go play in your field, and leave mine alone. Thanks.
My bet is on flat percentages in the categories of the previous alterations. They will not stray into mechanics territory, and will want to change spell dmg % or coeffecients on spells that will have the smallest impact on pvp.
37 + (3*7) + (3*7)W/L/T/Death count: Wolf: 0/1/0/1 | Mafia: 1/6/0/7 | TPR: 0/4/1/5SK: 0/1/0/1 | VT: 2/5/2/7 | Cult: 1/0/0/1
No fire spells for Arcane, Mages already have too many off-spec spells as it is.
Rather add a copy of scorch as Arcane Bolt with different graphics that is in the Arcane damage school.
Also all Arcane spells need their 22% nerf reverted. And every stack of Arcane charge should add 2 targets to Arcane Barrage, so that it hits 9 at full stacks.
Arcane AOE was already weak with 7 targets at 6 stacks, the 4 stack system indirectly nerfed that down to 5 targets.
"We think all 3 are low compared to say lock and hunter."
Please let us do Lock damage. That would be amazing. They'd have to buff our AOE too though. AE spam on Ball Lightning on Lei Shen wasn't getting it done, and that was with the 15 yard glyph hitting everything.
the buffs may announced tonight?
Calling it now: 3% or so buff to Abarr and a scaling modifier to Fireball.
Looks like buffs incoming today:
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