Infraction for eldricht: Whining

LodeRunner · 06/19/08, 6:57 PM

Post: [Mage] WotLK Talent Preview / Discussion
User: eldricht
Infraction: Whining
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Add something constructive to the topic at hand instead of just bitching and moaning.

Original Post:

This is my first post on these forums so here goes.

I seemed to have recalled, many many months ago, Blizzard having a thread on their class forums asking for class feedback from players looking for improvements to their class and to elaborate on some of their current problems. Over 100 pages later and the main topics in area of improvements were:

1) Mana Issues - Which has been looked and with the spirit changes, it hasn't been too bad.
2) Frost Pushback - Still sucks
3) Polymorph being the only CC that heals people and has a cast time - Still the same
4) Blink not working properly - YAY now with Imp Blink they cant hit me 50% of the time for 2 seconds, hope I don't blink IN THE SAME SPOT.
5) Spellsteal - costing too much mana and nothing is going to change
6) Slow - costing too much mana and nothing is going to change
7) Poor DPS - Undetermined
8) Invisibility - 4 seconds is too long. Down to 1 seconds is pretty damn good but I'm not impressed.
9) Arcane Fortitude - Anyone ever use this?
10) PyroBlast - useless spell unless you have PoM or spec down the arcane tree to get the Netherwind Presence.

and many many more.

I'm sure by now you can see where I'm going with this. They hardly solved any of our old issues and are now giving us these new and improved spells for us to be amazed and quite frankly I'm not. I'm more disappointed in the fact that here we are yet again trying to maximize our DPS from spells that I think are far inferior to what other classes received and I feel that we will be out DPSed by Secondary Classes and still have Survivability issues in arena with our low health and low armor.

I know comparing classes is not the best way to make a point simply because every class is unique in play styles and have different game mechanics but what I'm saying is that our new spells and talents seems like it took them 15 minutes to come up with and then moved on without a look over.

I am one unhappy mage. I don't want my class to be the most dominated class in the game both pvp or pve but I would like a fighting chance and I feel we have none.