Arcane Brilliance: The Class Balance Q&A -- more Q's than A's for mages

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11-13-2011 @ 12:33PM

Paul said...

I suspect that there will still be a role advantage to each spec.

The obvious roles that I see are AOE, static and movement. Each spec will still be "best in role", but the difference will be smaller.

For example,

AOE - Fire will still be king, especially with AOE/cleave situations which last longer than 10 secs. Arcane will still be better in short AOE fights (IF they have 4x AB debuff), and Frost will still be more reliable, consistant, but less than both in their suited roles.

Hopefully frost will become the movement spec (it has more instant casts after all).

However, despite all this, I just want creative measures to be made for all three specs. Arcane can be really interesting if the debuff was fully embraced as a resource mechanic that affected every Arcane DPS spell, but in a unique way. Likewise with fire and it's DOTs and Frost with it's chills, but with Scorch and Living Bomb being changed as they are, I do share your doubts, but I'm just not convinced by them yet.

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