Let's put the unrelated and rolling debate of whether the cosmos is or isn't arcane-aspected to bed and return to the actual topic of the thread, a Disintegrate-like effect for the Evoker class.
Let's put the unrelated and rolling debate of whether the cosmos is or isn't arcane-aspected to bed and return to the actual topic of the thread, a Disintegrate-like effect for the Evoker class.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
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Based on the OP's post, they're asking why the Evoker has a Disintegrate-type ability where the Mage (oddly using the Diablo Wizard to stand in for the archetypal fantasy Mage) class in WoW does not. That's a fine question to ask and is at least somewhat on the topic of the thread, whereas arguing over what is or isn't "cosmic" or "arcane" is not.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The OP's question was answered on page 2;
This is the Evoker's Disintegrate ability;
That's why Mages don't have it, because they can't turn into dragons and breath arcane fire from their mouths.
Why is roll a monk ability instead of a demon hunter? They have vault in diablo and hots
And yet mages have an ability called "Dragon's Breath" that literally summons a dragon's head to breathe fire on enemies, so why couldn't that happen for this "disintegrate" spell?
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Yes, very different. Having a few similarities does not preclude them being very different. I can find similarities between a toy car and a boeing 747. I can also find similarities between humans and trees. But none of that means they're not very different from each other.
AFAIK, there's no elves in the Diablo world, much less any 'highborne'. Gameplay-wise? That's a vague similarity because the Diablo wizard also "definitely resembles" the shaman class, with lightning spells and spells with melee range.
Summoning a magical dragon head =/= transforming into a dragon and breathing spellfrost from mouth ala Kalecgos.
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To be accurate it’s Spellfrost, the signature magic school of the Blue Dragonflight.
I don’t think mages have many spellfrost abilities.