How about some buffs to Ice Lance? Allow talents like arctic reach to effect Ice Lance? This spell sucks, and would be nice if it didn't. How about the size of Ice Barrier shield? Legit everything in the game dmg wise has been buffed, but our shield has not? Cool final talent in the tree.... In PvP it's like a non crit auto from any melee class... or a tick of a SP dot... or a fart from a druid... please buff the shield.
1- clear casting reduce regen, mass regen and feet heal cost. 2- living flame start bellow in the target. 3- Spellfrost bolt, balefire bolt and ffb bolt in wrist. 4 - brainfreeze moved to belt. Displacement moved to head. 5- temporal anomaly shield scale with SP and give shield for raid too. 6- ignite damage based on firedamage + other elemental damage. (Ignite from ffb bolt will do ff damage)
I love the idea of moving hot streak to the head rune. Our rotation got easier than it was in P2 and you would think they would give us a rune to further enhance the hot streak build. It wasn't a difficult rotation but I enjoyed it more than just spamming FFB.
Great video , hope the devs see this and we get some nice Qol buffs for us mages. Also grats on the dagger finally !! I enjoyed watching your livestreams farming that
Mages in battleground / PVP is awful, everyone else is playing SOD PVP while mages playing classic era with afew more tools PVP pls buff them like it take like 1-2 ticks of a Spriest Dot to just remove ice barrier : our final talent that is meant to be best of frost & etc. Warlocks can basically spam instant cast searing pain while being tanky and do like 500dmg while our instant cast 500dmg is a 8 sec. cooldown: Fireblast we mages needs huge PVP buff becuase we have being powercreeped out of the PVP game so much like its insane alot of classes can like 1-2 shot with like under 30 sec. CD, almost non mana usage Mages: dump all our mana on a 2min cooldown combined with arcane power and now we have 0 mana and is useless after it(i say a fair 1shot but not compare to everyone else what they can do) mage healing in PVP : you really hate yourself do you? : everything is hard casting, your chrono heal if that get kicked rip everything is on cooldown, you need to be in range and abit in danger to "heal" people compare to other healers who can stand more in the back becuase they dont need to damage for heal and even with all of this Mages has only gotten PVP nerfs like the living flame one : we lost a whole rune slot there for PVPing i would say basically
Arcane DPS is tricky because you have to buff it in a way that doesn’t also boost Mage healer damage. I think they need to target competitive options in slots used by Mage healing, like the regen slots, so the Mage healers are limited or blocked from being able to get the full dps buffs. Also buff Temp Anom this rune is a meme.
Considering that mage healer damage is always going to be relatively low due to them using so many GCD's for healing spells, I don't think that buffing their damage matters much as long as it doesn't impact their healing output significantly. For example, make the Spell Power rune have double the effect for Arcane spells. This wouldn't buff mage healing at all (Due to the unintuitive way that mage healing works with critical strikes) but would bring Arcane in line with other caster specs in terms of crit scaling. The fact that DoT classes now actually have better crit damage than Arcane DPS is sad.
@@Seinglede You don't need to do a ton of GCDs though. You batch your regens after AB and then go straight back into damage. You are only committing a lot of GCD if you are busy hammering CSP. The inherent "damage = healing" aspect of Arcane Healer makes it an anchor to Arcane DPS damage ceiling unless they divest the two in more meaningful ways.
@@shadycat8898 Even if you batch Regen, you are still spending the GCD. If you do it right and let the second tick go off, that 2 seconds of cast time that could have been spent Arcane Blasting. You can look at logs. Healer mages do about half the damage of DPS arcane mages. You lose a lot of damage by casting heal spells, even when playing optimally. On that note, considering how much damage tanks are currently doing, making Arcane Healers do more damage is completely fine. If they are doing as much or more damage than the lower DPS tanks, that doesn't really alter the balance of the spec at all. The only problem would be them doing way more healing than other healers as a result. In which case, the fix is extremely easy. Lower the percentage of beacons healing conversion. Done. That's it. It isn't a major design issue. They have the balance levers to make it work. Buff all the runes that Arcane DPS are supposed to be taking, because they are currently the worst option in every slot with few exceptions. Maybe nerf beacon to 60% of damage, but buff some core Arcane abilities to keep Arcane Mages balanced in terms of healing while letting them do maybe a bit more damage than a middle of the road tank like Bear Druids, which they are currently doing about 60% of the DPS of in pure DPS setups and maybe 30% of the DPS of as healer. If they did something silly like double the damage of every Arcane Mage spell and reduce chronomantic beacon down to 40% of damage as healing, Mages would still be a middle of the pack healer while doing 1/2 the damage of a Warrior/Warlock/Rogue tank and be about even with Shaman and Druid tanks in terms of DPS. Hardly an unacceptable place to be balance wise, even with a ludicrously enormous buff.
Arcane Blast buff is mandatory, for Living Flame it was a well deserved nerf considering that slot was used in every specs.. Also my wishlist is the Icicle rune to buff Ice lance :D
Mage scroll adjustment: Make each mage scroll an anagram of certain locations. If you decipher it in the correct location, you get 2 of the uncommon or higher quality scrolls. If you don't, you get the current grab-bag of crap.
The dungeon mob slow immunity is shit! I’ve been solo aoe farming brd trash back in the days(not boosting but for gold and fun). It is such a big hit. Maybe make the mobs trigger this effect only if there are more than 1 person in the dungeon
1. Hot streak to head rune(everyone wants that) 2. Fix mana issues (OOM too quick) 3. Bring back classic ignite 4. Let us be the best at something (making the class less desirable to play and bring to raid) 5. Give us some love for once instead of always nerfing us
I hear you about the scrolls. I think I spent atleast 2-300 gold on them phase 2 to get a few hit/crit scrolls to get through the phase. I probably got 2-3 hit scrolls and a couple extra crit scrolls for all that gold spent.
I'm surprised you didn't mention mana issue. Playing mage in any kind of pvp makes you sit and drink 30% of the time. meanwhile all other mana dependent classes have no issue with mana
Grats on the dagger, took me 279 tries and I did the lockout skip which got me a lovely 10 day suspension haha. Anyways, don't forget about Eye of Flame! I'm currently waiting to get back to raiding after grabbing it but haven't been able to because of this "exploit suspension". Whelp, maybe that can be your next grind, getting the Eye of Flame, which is insane btw. Here is to my 100 parses next week - Chodelove
Each time you don't crit you get a 10% haste bonus that stacks X times, and is resetted when you crit Fire Blast now spreads dots to nearby targets Molten Armor with 5% crit + your ignite now lasts 10 seconds istead of only 4 Molten Armor with 5% crit + your combustion CD is lowered by 10 second each time you crit Molten Armor with 5% crit + Fireblast now applys 5 stacks of Improved Scorch on target Give improved scorch armor pene, so worst case melee will bring atleast one mage
The only two changes I could really see them doing is moving hot streak to the head and allowing frost fire bolt to Prock it. Or making ignite able to crit
The only move needed in order to balance fire mage back to competitive dps would be to move hot streak into the head rune slot. We got screwed over in head runes being completely useless for all specs but frost pvp this phase, moving hot streak to the head would be massive, allowing us to take FFB and hot streak.
It's so strange to see tanks outdpsing actual dps specs. What happened to roles? I think at all times healers and tanks should always be at the bottom of the dps meter no matter what because that's not their role and if they aren't something is wrong with tuning in a bad way.
mage scrolls were fun at first but now i just wish they werent a thing. He says here he opened 60 scrolls to get 2 crit scrolls so thats like 100 gold roughly for 1 hours worth of +1% crit it is insane its even worse than firewaters for melee
Mage Healing feels rather clunky and reactive Would propose a passive on Temporal Anomaly that a % of your overhealing gives a shield up to a % of the target's max hp. Add the clause about tanks still getting rage / mana back and that would work great.
My biggest complaint rn is the mage scrolls. I wish there was some consistency or methodology to deciphering them. It's insane that I have to spend so much for a chance at a certain scroll.
Mages have the best aoe farms and sell ports at a 1500% markup for the reagent cost. One port buys you like 15 decyphers. I think it’s okay to spend gold on charms. It adds balance to the economy
@@thiccroman 25s to 1g is not a 1500% markup lol. The issue isn't that scrolls are expensive. The issue is there's so many different scrolls you can get with so little control over how you get them. If each note translated to a pool of 4 specific scrolls it would be a nice balance between control and randomness, but when I get the same useless scrolls time and time again it just feels like a worthless mechanic
@@thiccroman also Mages don't have the best aoe farms in SoD. That hands down goes to hunters. Also AoE farming is hardly worth it when you can just do Incursions loops and get ~30g in 15 minutes. Tl;Dr: Stay jealous stay mad
I wish they would remove the dungeon boost fixes. The economy is already ruined and if people want to buy boosts I dont really see why it should be prevented. Blocking people from playing the game in ways they enjoy feels so against the spirit of what a game should be about. Just make sure to give other classes ways to make gold and fun things to do and let the mages enjoy playing how they want to play :)
And please make resurection free, i had 10+ situations in game where i was only one who could res but i didn't have scroll because it's too expensive on AH
dude gets a fancy new dagger and thinks he can just go changing things now
butthurt much
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@@inkbyfrank not get sarcasm much?
How about some buffs to Ice Lance? Allow talents like arctic reach to effect Ice Lance? This spell sucks, and would be nice if it didn't. How about the size of Ice Barrier shield? Legit everything in the game dmg wise has been buffed, but our shield has not? Cool final talent in the tree.... In PvP it's like a non crit auto from any melee class... or a tick of a SP dot... or a fart from a druid... please buff the shield.
1- clear casting reduce regen, mass regen and feet heal cost.
2- living flame start bellow in the target.
3- Spellfrost bolt, balefire bolt and ffb bolt in wrist.
4 - brainfreeze moved to belt. Displacement moved to head.
5- temporal anomaly shield scale with SP and give shield for raid too.
6- ignite damage based on firedamage + other elemental damage. (Ignite from ffb bolt will do ff damage)
then we wouldnt be able to use molten armor
@@Yams42279 we would, but in head slot
what we need is hot streak on head slot and we are gucci
I love the idea of moving hot streak to the head rune. Our rotation got easier than it was in P2 and you would think they would give us a rune to further enhance the hot streak build. It wasn't a difficult rotation but I enjoyed it more than just spamming FFB.
Great video , hope the devs see this and we get some nice Qol buffs for us mages. Also grats on the dagger finally !! I enjoyed watching your livestreams farming that
Mages in battleground / PVP is awful, everyone else is playing SOD PVP while mages playing classic era with afew more tools PVP
pls buff them like it take like 1-2 ticks of a Spriest Dot to just remove ice barrier : our final talent that is meant to be best of frost & etc.
Warlocks can basically spam instant cast searing pain while being tanky and do like 500dmg while our instant cast 500dmg is a 8 sec. cooldown: Fireblast
we mages needs huge PVP buff becuase we have being powercreeped out of the PVP game so much like its insane
alot of classes can like 1-2 shot with like under 30 sec. CD, almost non mana usage
Mages: dump all our mana on a 2min cooldown combined with arcane power and now we have 0 mana and is useless after it(i say a fair 1shot but not compare to everyone else what they can do)
mage healing in PVP : you really hate yourself do you? : everything is hard casting, your chrono heal if that get kicked rip everything is on cooldown, you need to be in range and abit in danger to "heal" people compare to other healers who can stand more in the back becuase they dont need to damage for heal
and even with all of this Mages has only gotten PVP nerfs like the living flame one : we lost a whole rune slot there for PVPing i would say basically
Agreed on ice lance. Would be cool to see it be worth using.
Arcane DPS is tricky because you have to buff it in a way that doesn’t also boost Mage healer damage.
I think they need to target competitive options in slots used by Mage healing, like the regen slots, so the Mage healers are limited or blocked from being able to get the full dps buffs.
Also buff Temp Anom this rune is a meme.
Considering that mage healer damage is always going to be relatively low due to them using so many GCD's for healing spells, I don't think that buffing their damage matters much as long as it doesn't impact their healing output significantly. For example, make the Spell Power rune have double the effect for Arcane spells. This wouldn't buff mage healing at all (Due to the unintuitive way that mage healing works with critical strikes) but would bring Arcane in line with other caster specs in terms of crit scaling. The fact that DoT classes now actually have better crit damage than Arcane DPS is sad.
@@Seinglede You don't need to do a ton of GCDs though. You batch your regens after AB and then go straight back into damage. You are only committing a lot of GCD if you are busy hammering CSP. The inherent "damage = healing" aspect of Arcane Healer makes it an anchor to Arcane DPS damage ceiling unless they divest the two in more meaningful ways.
@@shadycat8898 Even if you batch Regen, you are still spending the GCD. If you do it right and let the second tick go off, that 2 seconds of cast time that could have been spent Arcane Blasting. You can look at logs. Healer mages do about half the damage of DPS arcane mages. You lose a lot of damage by casting heal spells, even when playing optimally. On that note, considering how much damage tanks are currently doing, making Arcane Healers do more damage is completely fine. If they are doing as much or more damage than the lower DPS tanks, that doesn't really alter the balance of the spec at all. The only problem would be them doing way more healing than other healers as a result. In which case, the fix is extremely easy. Lower the percentage of beacons healing conversion. Done. That's it. It isn't a major design issue. They have the balance levers to make it work. Buff all the runes that Arcane DPS are supposed to be taking, because they are currently the worst option in every slot with few exceptions. Maybe nerf beacon to 60% of damage, but buff some core Arcane abilities to keep Arcane Mages balanced in terms of healing while letting them do maybe a bit more damage than a middle of the road tank like Bear Druids, which they are currently doing about 60% of the DPS of in pure DPS setups and maybe 30% of the DPS of as healer. If they did something silly like double the damage of every Arcane Mage spell and reduce chronomantic beacon down to 40% of damage as healing, Mages would still be a middle of the pack healer while doing 1/2 the damage of a Warrior/Warlock/Rogue tank and be about even with Shaman and Druid tanks in terms of DPS. Hardly an unacceptable place to be balance wise, even with a ludicrously enormous buff.
Arcane Blast buff is mandatory, for Living Flame it was a well deserved nerf considering that slot was used in every specs.. Also my wishlist is the Icicle rune to buff Ice lance :D
Mage scroll adjustment: Make each mage scroll an anagram of certain locations. If you decipher it in the correct location, you get 2 of the uncommon or higher quality scrolls. If you don't, you get the current grab-bag of crap.
The dungeon mob slow immunity is shit! I’ve been solo aoe farming brd trash back in the days(not boosting but for gold and fun). It is such a big hit. Maybe make the mobs trigger this effect only if there are more than 1 person in the dungeon
1. Hot streak to head rune(everyone wants that)
2. Fix mana issues (OOM too quick)
3. Bring back classic ignite
4. Let us be the best at something (making the class less desirable to play and bring to raid)
5. Give us some love for once instead of always nerfing us
Nice video ! Thank you !
Btw new mage here. Which is the best spec where i can farm easily with it and also dps in raid ?
I hear you about the scrolls. I think I spent atleast 2-300 gold on them phase 2 to get a few hit/crit scrolls to get through the phase. I probably got 2-3 hit scrolls and a couple extra crit scrolls for all that gold spent.
I'm surprised you didn't mention mana issue. Playing mage in any kind of pvp makes you sit and drink 30% of the time. meanwhile all other mana dependent classes have no issue with mana
Shitzzard
make ffb proc hotstreak cmon blizzzzz hahah
Its so dumb that they put most of hybrid bolts and procs in the same spot
Yes was hoping hed mention this, i want hot streaks on helmet as my #1
pyro is weaker than ffb tho theyd have to buff it or it wouldnt even be worth, it does less damage and cost like 3x mana
Ffb procs WC. Hot streak too would be so broken.
@@Yams42279 dude its 100% worth to cast instant pyro proc for ignite and dmg
Great job on the content gonna miss the princess run streams
Grats on the dagger, took me 279 tries and I did the lockout skip which got me a lovely 10 day suspension haha. Anyways, don't forget about Eye of Flame! I'm currently waiting to get back to raiding after grabbing it but haven't been able to because of this "exploit suspension". Whelp, maybe that can be your next grind, getting the Eye of Flame, which is insane btw. Here is to my 100 parses next week - Chodelove
Each time you don't crit you get a 10% haste bonus that stacks X times, and is resetted when you crit
Fire Blast now spreads dots to nearby targets
Molten Armor with 5% crit + your ignite now lasts 10 seconds istead of only 4
Molten Armor with 5% crit + your combustion CD is lowered by 10 second each time you crit
Molten Armor with 5% crit + Fireblast now applys 5 stacks of Improved Scorch on target
Give improved scorch armor pene, so worst case melee will bring atleast one mage
i like these
The only two changes I could really see them doing is moving hot streak to the head and allowing frost fire bolt to Prock it. Or making ignite able to crit
Mage scrolls are the worst thing in sod
Should have been an inscription skill like poison of lockpick for rogues. Mages could been writing some as well.
Maybe some mana regen would be nice for outdoor content, I feel like evocation gets outscaled pretty hard
Where can I read about 1 min + 3 min “buff” for mobs while boosting?
@@unbenanntunbekannt omg sounds like a mess 😳😂
move runes around sso that it becomes more spec specific
They should move hot streak to the helm slot, so it can be used with FFB
The only move needed in order to balance fire mage back to competitive dps would be to move hot streak into the head rune slot. We got screwed over in head runes being completely useless for all specs but frost pvp this phase, moving hot streak to the head would be massive, allowing us to take FFB and hot streak.
It's so strange to see tanks outdpsing actual dps specs. What happened to roles? I think at all times healers and tanks should always be at the bottom of the dps meter no matter what because that's not their role and if they aren't something is wrong with tuning in a bad way.
Our shields are pretty dismal especially when warriors and paladins and 2h shammy a get an epic weapon for free lol. What shield?
The scrolls are so painful to do. Feels like we have to if we want to parse
mage scrolls were fun at first but now i just wish they werent a thing. He says here he opened 60 scrolls to get 2 crit scrolls so thats like 100 gold roughly for 1 hours worth of +1% crit it is insane its even worse than firewaters for melee
Mage Healing feels rather clunky and reactive
Would propose a passive on Temporal Anomaly that a % of your overhealing gives a shield up to a % of the target's max hp.
Add the clause about tanks still getting rage / mana back and that would work great.
My biggest complaint rn is the mage scrolls. I wish there was some consistency or methodology to deciphering them. It's insane that I have to spend so much for a chance at a certain scroll.
Mages have the best aoe farms and sell ports at a 1500% markup for the reagent cost. One port buys you like 15 decyphers. I think it’s okay to spend gold on charms. It adds balance to the economy
@@thiccroman 25s to 1g is not a 1500% markup lol. The issue isn't that scrolls are expensive. The issue is there's so many different scrolls you can get with so little control over how you get them. If each note translated to a pool of 4 specific scrolls it would be a nice balance between control and randomness, but when I get the same useless scrolls time and time again it just feels like a worthless mechanic
@@thiccroman also Mages don't have the best aoe farms in SoD. That hands down goes to hunters. Also AoE farming is hardly worth it when you can just do Incursions loops and get ~30g in 15 minutes.
Tl;Dr: Stay jealous stay mad
@@Nysonin609 jealous of what? You basically just said mages are worthless?
@@Nysonin609 its 18s to 3-4g tho…
Noticed they already fixed displacement traveling sadly.
Hot streak would be so good in head rune...
I wish they would remove the dungeon boost fixes. The economy is already ruined and if people want to buy boosts I dont really see why it should be prevented. Blocking people from playing the game in ways they enjoy feels so against the spirit of what a game should be about. Just make sure to give other classes ways to make gold and fun things to do and let the mages enjoy playing how they want to play :)
I don't think you understand what a balance patch is
I want a summon for mage and a rework for revive and teleport scroll
arcane barrage rune please
And please make resurection free, i had 10+ situations in game where i was only one who could res but i didn't have scroll because it's too expensive on AH
honestly i made a mage to farm and pvp phase 3 comes out i cant farm and i cant pvp amazing
I hate sod mage, i never played such a boring class
Move Hot Streak to Head Rune
I'd just like a way to farm the scrolls easier lol
Bruh i really want AC reduce heal cost too
Make displacement usable in stun just like blink 😁
40y nameplates also pls
Give us WATER ELEMENTAL!!!!!
Got my dagger at 14 kills lmao