Infraction for Daytrader: 4. Whining in any form is forbidden.

• Aldriana · 10/12/09, 6:24 AM

Post: WotLK - Complete Mage Compendium (3.3 PTR)
User: Daytrader
Infraction: 4. Whining in any form is forbidden.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

You started out okay, but then you had to turn it into a whinefest about what all the other classes are getting. And then you topped it off with a "lol". Do better in the future.

Original Post:

Personally I'm not impressed. Looking at the bonuses by themselves, they look like they MIGHT be cool. But when compared to the bonuses other classes are getting i think we got the shaft.

2pt10 - 15% damage for 10sec every 3 mins = (15%/180)*10 = .83% Avg damage, excluding CD stacking. (I think my math is correct. I hope it is not)
The trade off being 5% crit to main nukes (4pt9)
They should also reduce the CD of Images to 2 mins [(15%/120)*10 = 1.25 Avg damage}

4pt10 - 12% haste for 3 sec. I'm not sure if they want us casting the next spell or the next 2 spells with this buff. If we get the buff when we cast HS-Pyro, best case we lose 1 second due to the GCD incurred from the instant cast. This leaves 2 seconds of hasted cast speed, max. Granted we should be critting like mad and getting plenty HS-Ps, So it might not even matter if the up time is consistently high.

Unless they buff the 2pt10, it might not be worth is to drop 4pt9 until 4pt10. This is unusual because 2p bonuses of higher tiers are usually better than 4p bonus of the previous tier.

Examples of other DPS class bonuses that are insane:

Item - Death Knight T10 Melee 2P Bonus - Your Obliterate, Scourge Strike, and Death Strike abilities deal 10% increased damage.

Item - Druid T10 Feral 2P Bonus/4P Bonus - the cost of your Rip ability is reduced by 10 energy / the periodic damage done by your Rake ability can now be a critical strike.

Item - Warrior T10 Melee 4P Bonus - You have a 20% chance for your Blood Surge and Sudden Death talents to grant 2 charges of their effect instead of 1 and for the duration of the effect to be increased by 100%.

Item - Priest T10 Shadow 4P Bonus - Reduces the channel duration and period of your Mind Flay spell by 51%.(assuming typo, should be 15%)

Item - Paladin T10 Retribution 2P Bonus - Your Seals and Judgements deal 10% additional damage.

Where is our 10% damage to HS-Pyros, lol.