Arcane Brilliance: Mage AoE in Cataclysm, part 1

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9-04-2010 @ 2:59PM

nonentity said...

Yeah, the re-buff to AoE was really overdue. I complained a lot about the uselessness of AoE spells at that time. Seriously, on live my Blizzard - as Arcane - does 2k dmg, solo, 3k+ when in a raid/group. In Beta my Blizzard - in Frost, fully skilled etc. - did 514dmg.....
You could pretty much remove it from your hotbar, it was that pointless to use it.

Now it feels a bit better, still far less satisfying than it does on live. You only full appreciate how good it is right now when you try it in the beta....
I'm fine with where they wanna go with instances, less AoE pulls, more CC etc. but doing that at the cost of pretty much killing the entire AoE line was not a fantastic idea.
If you put a lot of points in talents to specc Blizzard etc. you should be able to AoE farm when soloing/leveling which was absolutely impossible. Now it still pretty much is but at least it's a little bit better.

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