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Achloryn
we just don’t want to dabble too much with “this piece is attractive to the Fire mage, but not the Frost mage.” We think the value of different stats has just crept too far apart for different specs of the same class.
what GC doesn't realize is that this is ALREADY the case, and you gave the biggest example. FFB vs Arcane. Gear that is just dripping with crit rating is gonna be 10x more attractive to a FFB mage than it will ever be to an arcane mage.
It’s just never going to feel right when one stat is worth double or more of the value of another stat. We’re making a big pass at all of the talent trees and item stats to try and get this a little closer for everyone.
Not gonna happen unless they retool the deep fire specs to not be so dependant on crit for their DPS uppage via hot streak.
Ideally you might be comparing two pieces of cloth and have to decide whether the haste or crit is more valuable to you, and not just write off everything without crit as junk.
"Ideally" is such a great term.. Ideally, we can pvp equally well in each spec. Ideally pvp will be balanced. Ideally all 3 (4 really) specs will be able to put out at least SOMEWHAT comparable damage regardless of your average ilvl. Ideally we will have gear that isn't itemized so terribly that we would HAVE to make such decisions. Ideally they wouldn't be trying to steer people into the more crit-related specs by making the t9 set bonus *pure crit %*. Ideally blizzard wouldn't make all of the t9 sets look friggin IDENTICAL with just a shift in the color schemes. Ideally mages wouldn't have gotten such a #@$!ing CRAPPY Q&A compared to EVERY OTHER CLASS.
okay so that last one was merely an annoyance of mine, but i mean come the hell on.
also...... do i get the cookie? lol
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scook999
Ideally, I would be an FFB or Fire mage, but because of the "wonderous" itemization, I am Arcane. Nothing wrong with Arcane, but I like to throw pretty balls of light. Gear that would split the difference on crit and haste will make Arcane the de facto spec, I would think. Then once they realize the preponderance of Arcane, then itemization will be put in that has several different sets. Then, once they have several different sets, they will realize mages will focus on certain types more than others, so they will itemize middling sets of gear.
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Post by
nickseng
You know, Crit
does
benefit an Arcane mage, as does Haste to any Fire-type.
There are far more important things for Blizzard to remedy.
We're not saying it doesn't. We're saying that crit is not as good as haste for an Arcane mage.
What if we turned things around and have all the tier sets have large amounts of haste and little-to-no crit. Would you be happy if we just said that Haste does benefit a FFB mage.
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