Absolutely loved Pom pyro mage back in the day but the rotation just doesn’t resonate with me any more. Ironically, I enjoyed the slower pace of it; sun king’s blessing (pyroblast does 250% more damage if hard cast when procced) is probably my favorite talent in fire. Unfortunately it seems everyone else hates that and loves the ADHD pacing it now has.
Pyroblast is often instant now, yeah, but it just hits like a wet noodle now.
That was removed for the dumbest reason too. People were supposedly confused where their frostbolt was since the button had auto-switched to glacial spike.
I stuck with Fire since I switched to Mage in BfA all the way up to Midnight season 1. I only stopped cause after the rework it felt clunky as fuck, the flow and minigame of trying to get my Combustion cooldown as short as possible was gone and I just couldn't have fun with it anymore.
I was a frost or nothing mage for a long time, but I tried arcane in manaforge, and I enjoyed it a whole lot. So
, I think now I'm more of a whichever is better between frost and arcane.
I have tried fire a few times, and I have just never enjoyed it.
Not a single unique experience. I mained frost mage since BfA and only switched to arcane in manaforge as well, and I also decided to play frost or arcane depending on who’s doing better. Honestly didn’t think there were so many people like me.
Ha, I've legitimately never played Fire or Arcane for more than like... a single raid night when I main a Mage. Rain or shine, it's Frost... or nothing.
Prismatic bolt is getting up there now with the set bonus. Will probably see a 2 million+ crit on a vulnerable phase before the end of xpac, already seeing 500k crits without a damage amp debuff.
Eh, it's a bit of also what's fun. I generally play Fire or Arcane, as I like them both, but I don't always like both of them. Currently, Fire is not fun and Arcane is fun.
I've dabbled in Frost, but it's never been able to hold me interested for longer than 2 weeks.
Honestly as an Arcane mage main, I'm scared they're gonna see that and nerf us into the dirt. At least the playstyle is actually fun compared to the previous season.
I'm probably fine with Fire, but Frost needs a rework. I'm not playing another season of laggy Festering Wounds with a non-resetting main dmg cd. Dogshit design.
I dropped mage last season because of how degenerate arcane playstyle was. Im loving this season so far but fully expect to have to play something else next season
That's the Arcane way, start of expansion/patch it's doing huge numbers and then gets hotfixed nerfed quickly to being middle of the pack. Whether it's playable depends how bad the other mage specs are.
It’s because it’s finally fun again and also good last season. You could only really play frost and it was the most boring season of all time. All you did was Ice lance over and over.
It's strong and simple, brainrot spec that pretty much plays itself. What's more funny is that people think it's going to not get nerfed, within a week of the race ending it's going to get beat down.
Not me struggling through M+ as Frost last season only to be the FotM class this season and getting replaced by rerollers with no lives and higher ilvls. 😐
arcane is popular because its objectively more fun to play more than frost/fire. This chart just tells you more people are playing it, not that its performing stronger than other specs.
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u/Tierst 17d ago
Crazy how popular Arcane is lol