Is the current state of this spell (read: retarded damage) intended or is it getting looked at? Thanks.
Is the current state of this spell (read: retarded damage) intended or is it getting looked at? Thanks.
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It's horribly broken in a pvp environment, because there is essentially no point casting frostbolts as a nuke. All you do as a frost mage is run around icelancing.
To make the playstyle remotely compelling, they need to beef up frostbolt and nerf icelance hard. This is not necessarily about non-mages complaining about mages, it's also a matter of mages being concerned that with the current design, their class runs the risk of being skill-less faceroll and enduring the resulting stigma. The moment 4.0.1 hit, mage became 3.0.2 ret.
Highlighted the importand part..
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so on resilience capped targets hits for 4-5k max. so no it's not op.
if you just started doing pvp then there is no point in expressing a view of a spell ment to do half damage with resilience.
Frostbolt is worth casting on nova'd targets becasue IL will break the nova with one spell, while FB+IL will allow two and about twice the damage. Frostbolt is worth casting on deep freezed targets as it hits harder than IL if you have the glyph. Ice Lance is good, it is by no means our only or our best source of damage. People who qq about IL damage are just bad. I'm still running a mix of pve/pvp gear at about 970 resil and I do just fine. Good players and high resil targets don't die as easily as all the baddies crying OP.
Hell, some kid with 0 resil dueled me last night, and I literally did nothing but spam IL (didn't even cast a nova) and won. Then he starts telling meme "you're gonna get nerfed, it's in the patch notes" and he refused to believe me when I said those nerfs were already applied. These are the kinds of people who are crying OP.
in pvp mine was critting (on a frozen target) for 4-6k, beause of resilience.
it would hit for what...1500? noncrit? no frozen effect?
ya, so OP with people in PVP gear with 40k hp.
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oh but it's so fun to see people cry about all these things at 80, when Blizzard clearly stated not to
It does high damage with no cooldown and no way of stopping it but a full out CC. It makes frost mages faceroll, and there is no reason to cast frostbolt anymore, reducing the risk of getting caught in a cast. On top of the unavoidable damage, frost still has it's insane survivability and control.
Frost is amazingly broken right now, and I have a feeling it won't change come 85.
Ice Lance is indeed extremely broken, but for some reason I can't seem to kill Warlocks, Priests, Druids (and many other classes) when they're wearing PvP gear!
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The problem with this is Blizzard's implementation.
"Here's some big changes! But it's balanced at something two months away and in a fictional five levels you don't have yet!"
Balancing spells for 85 when no one on live will even hit 81 for at least another month and a half is a bit absurd. And people wonder why there is so much QQ about abilities.
Congratulations, your mind has been expanded.
And this was said when TBC changes hit, yet people leveled.
Then again when WotLK changes came...yet again people leveled quickly.
Beta PvP seems to be decently balanced now that people are gearing up and I haven't heard any war stories from there about people being one shot by anything. If you've played this game as long as me (started in September of 2005), then none of this complaining is new to you. If you're a wrath baby, then by all means go ahead and complain and watch as it balances itself out at level 85.
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I can take out melee easy, other spell casters arent to bad, but resto druids with res are impossible to kill...