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  Brain Freeze Fireballs "work" for raiding? |
07/14/09 08:01:54 PM
Patch 3.1.3
Muphrid |
Ghostcrawler says...
Q u o t e:
The goal of the Eclipse talent in the first place was to give
moonkin a more dynamic rotation that involved the player paying
attention and responding to the environment rather than falling
into a monotonous rotation. [...] I’ll give a couple of
example of caster rotations that “work” in our opinion:
Destruction warlocks want to Immolate before they Conflagrate,
Frost mages can proc a Brain Freeze and throw out a fast
Fireball.
I would merely point out that in this PvE context (PvE because
that's where rotations are really relevant), Frost mages are going
to ditch Brain Freeze Fireballs in 3.2 for all but the phantom
latency-based third Fingers of Frost charge. The same goes with Ice
Lance. And both of these done will still produce DPS in the
neighborhood of 15-20% below other mage specs.
Thus, I must ask the question: if we're only using Brain Freeze
Fireballs and Ice Lance on ghost FoF charges, how is that not
monotonous? How does that "work" for casting variety?
Furthermore, is this really the kind of DPS Blizzard was hoping for
out of the spec?
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07/14/09 10:52:26 PM
Patch 3.1.3
Ghostcrawler
<Lead Systems Designer> |
You're using a slightly different
definition of "rotation" than we are using.
Do Frost Mages spam nothing but Frost Bolts? Actually, no. They
certainly use a lot of them, but the class is designed to do that.
They still use other spells and the best mages know when to use
those other spells. Even in PvP.
With Balance druids, it's different. They have two nukes, and one
really doesn't influence the other much. (You get a little bit of
interest in PvP from their being in two different schools.) Most
Balance druids worth their salt can look at Starfire or Wrath and
know which one to cast and which one to ignore. Eclipse did help
that situation somewhat, but it hasn't been as succesful as Brain
Freeze, and I'm not sure it can be as long as there are two similar
nukes. Brain Freeze works because it entices you to use a spell you
otherwise have little interest in casting. But we also don't want
to stampede for that solution every time we want to get players to
cast a second spell.
I know there will always be some players who say "Lol WoW is easy.
There are no decisions. My mod just tells me when to hit the button
and I maximize my dps." These are rarely the players with 310%
speed mounts however. :)
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