Infraction for radikal: General Idiocy

◊ Maniq · 08/22/08, 3:41 AM

Post: [Mage] WotLK Talent Discussion (Part Two)
User: radikal
Infraction: General Idiocy
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

Ice Lance I can see the use no doubt (mostly gaying charge), but it's a little weird, too specific. I say no doubt a lot, don't you give me another stupid warning, it's cuz I'm a thug.

And a homophobic bigot it would seem.

(This would be your last chance by the way).

Original Post:

An extra nova after Ice Block is just not very appealing as very frequently this is basically just at best ~10 seconds off the cooldown. The scorch thing could be amazing in pvp if it actually is 5 stacks no doubt. Evo is interesting. Ice Lance I can see the use no doubt (mostly gaying charge), but it's a little weird, too specific. I say no doubt a lot, don't you give me another stupid warning, it's cuz I'm a thug.

I wrote up this long whine about fire pvp and where the problems lie to post on the beta forums but I'll hold off until later in Beta. I figure I've earned some cred to discuss the topic as how many mages have played to 2300 in 2s and 2400+ in 3s and 5s multiple seasons as various horrible fire specs.

On the Fireball/Frostbolt glyphs -- Losing frostbite and the chill is pretty rough even exclusively on the PvE side of things. The real question is perhaps -- will fbolt still stack WC? Because if not, THAT is a steep price to pay. Especially, when all you lose with fireball is 1 30 dmg dot tick.

Glyph of Frost Nova - at 20%, worthless, trash.
Glyph of Fireblast - Solid
Glyph of Ice Armor - trashity trash
Glyph of Mana Gem - 10%?
Glyph of Remove Curse - 6 seconds is borderline. 8 would be solid. This is really only relevant to lock who CoT spam; it's nice to have in the game just for the butterfly effect where locks might stop spamming CoT because the occasional mage takes this glyph. (So please at least one decent mage per BG take it)

Most of the other glyphs are generally obviously bad or situational. Not to be overly negative, but I think these glyphs are pretty fail. The scorch glyph is hugely exploitable in pvp in conjunction with arcane sub and poly. I'm at a loss on that one. (2/18/51 emerges nicely as a trendy arena spec)