Frost mage nerfs?

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Post by nickseng

Also i'm trying to see if gearing my mage for pvp will be worth it because i don't want an actual challenge, just pure, unadulterated, domination.

Try playing Diablo 2

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Post by Godwolf

Sadly, Goldish is right. While mages are still a decent class and can certainly operate in the highest levels of arena, it's not easy. And we went from being viable in pretty much every comp to right back to play with nothing but warlocks, priests, rogues and resto druids. RMP is still great and WMD is too, but it's a lot more of a "Mage runs the heck around, dodging the non-stop, never ending, pain train express of doom that is every single team chasing the mage around." Our damage is still viable.... When you're Frostbolt turreting.

The whole situation is frustrating. Defensive dispels destroys our damage and CC. Offensive dispels still hurt us, but not as badly as in Wrath (This isn't because of any lucky break from Blizzard, it's just a product of Ice Barrier sucking and Purge not being OP anymore.) Interrupts are everywhere and mages are running around with the LONGEST casted CC AND damage ability on one class. Against any decent team, this means you won't ever get off a cast without your team helping you to do it. Unless, of course, you can pull of a perfect silence on a healer, drop a sheep on the DK incapable of interrupting, dropping a DF on the end of the sheep against the ret paladin, pop IV and any other SP trinkets you have and try to drop the ret (who's clearly too stupid to cast Bubble or trinket) before the silence on the healer is up (Which is 1.2 seconds from now).

This is already assuming that you had enough FoF procs and didn't just get zerged down by them in the first place. And while it's clearly an exaggeration, it's not that big of one. Too many comps have huge advantages on mages.

Meh. I'm depressed. I'm going back to my Blood DK for BGs. Because that stuff is lulzy. 2.4 mil damage in AB.... And 1.8 mil healing. Lol, yessir. Hardishard.

Frost mage nerfs?

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