Originally Posted by Sancus

Personally, I think it's sad and nonsensical that it takes a blatantly overpowered(come on now, it really is) set bonus to make a spec viable -- Arcane Blast really shouldn't need a 20% increase from a set to make Arcane competitive with deep Fire, but it does.

I think it would be far better for the state of the class to nerf the heck out of T5 and improve Arcane Blast significantly.

it's clear that even with T5, Arcane is only arguably competitive, not dominating, so why the heck doesn't Arcane Blast do that much damage in the first place?