Fire mages?

[Shaun]

I want to hear opinions on them..
Do they have potent at 70?

 

[Todu]

I want to hear opinions on them..
Do they have potent at 70?

I duel in fire all the time. Any class you can get the opener on and them without a trinket = you win.

Poly > Dispel > Frostjaw > Pyro > DF > IB > Pyro > Ice Lance = dead

Besides that, you're survivability is low and burst is pretty dependant on casts.

Tl;dr loads of potential, hard to master

 

[Zethax]

Used to play mine lots, but you're basicly a frostmage with pyroblast now, hoping wod will bring back some fire spells. Still viable I believe, havnt played mine much this expansion besides occasionally messing around, frost is still stronger but you have the burst potential to kill people

 

[Todu]

Used to play mine lots, but you're basicly a frostmage with pyroblast now, hoping wod will bring back some fire spells. Still viable I believe, havnt played mine much this expansion besides occasionally messing around, frost is still stronger but you have the burst potential to kill people

Fire is nothing like playing frost with a pyro.
Less freezes, even snares and with frost, using your Frozen Orb is guaranteed burst with FoF, getting crits with a scorch isn't never going to be definite, meaning kill windows are much smaller.
Fire is very hard vs classes that have a freedom like rets. No shatter = low burst.

 

[Shaun]

Fire is nothing like playing frost with a pyro.
Less freezes, even snares and with frost, using your Frozen Orb is guaranteed burst with FoF, getting crits with a scorch isn't never going to be definite, meaning kill windows are much smaller.
Fire is very hard vs classes that have a freedom like rets. No shatter = low burst.

Thanks for summarizing everything. Ive always been more of a fan of fire but didn't know if it was viable @ 70.

 

[Zethax]

Fire is nothing like playing frost with a pyro.
Less freezes, even snares and with frost, using your Frozen Orb is guaranteed burst with FoF, getting crits with a scorch isn't never going to be definite, meaning kill windows are much smaller.
Fire is very hard vs classes that have a freedom like rets. No shatter = low burst.

No combust, living bomb. Now has deep and shatter, very big change from how it was when I started playing mine in cata, basicly a frostmage 2.0 compared to then

 

[Todu]

No combust, living bomb. Now has deep and shatter, very big change from how it was when I started playing mine in cata, basicly a frostmage 2.0 compared to then

I'm also assuming you would class an Arcane Mage as a Frost Mage v3.0, interesting.

 

[madhombre]

it doesnt feel like fire without living bomb and combustion but it also doesnt feel like a frostmage ( burstmacro and spam lances = gg)
atleast you have scorch/pyro/dragons breath

 

[Todu]

it doesnt feel like fire without living bomb and combustion but it also doesnt feel like a frostmage ( burstmacro and spam lances = gg)
atleast you have scorch/pyro/dragons breath

I agree that when we did have LB we were a lot more effective.

Remember the good old days when you would cast Pyro (DoT), insta Pyro (DoT), LB and Ignite into 3-4k combustion ticks whilst you sat in a block haha. Even farmed that trinket for chance on dot 330 damage or something <3

 

[Zethax]

I'm also assuming you would class an Arcane Mage as a Frost Mage v3.0, interesting.

Is to me, the speccs lost too much diversity, I never liked frost much, now you have the same playstyle in the other speccs with burst revolving around deep / shatter