Fire is OVERPOWERED!
Fire is NERFED!
Fire will be “BALANCED”
Just in case you have never been through this before, or are really engaged this time around, just remember that 4.01 to 4.0x is just extended Beta.
This is the phase where Blizzard decides that things aren’t that broken, that they are working well enough, that they can try it out on the entire WoW population, rather than a microcosm of players, many of whom were never really Beta testing, just having a play with the future as the present had become so boring.
We are still preparing for Cataclysm, and not just in the World server sense, in the “Oh hell, is that still broken” sense.
Of my two characters, only Gnomeaggedon has been respeced and only in one spec (which may, or may not be for PvP… I can neither deny or confirm that).
I haven’t as yet regemmed, reenchanted, or reforged.
I sure as hell aren’t going to reglyph while psychos charge exorbitant amounts for glyphs that may well not work tomorrow the way they are advertised today.
There are going to be all sorts of things that go a little haywire.
For instance, I’m happy that I can conjure a table in a Battleground.
Not so happy that I get disconnected if I greedily try to grab some food off it.
My achievements have gone a little funky, I mean I would have to be pretty good to win both my 1st Arathi Basin battle and my 100th in one day wouldn’t I?
Speaking of AB… guess what I found on my doorstep…
I know I am in a position to ignore much of the fuss. I’m not on my 100th LK attempt, so I’m OK with pottering about for another week or so 1/2 spec’d, gemmed, geared and enchanted. Still, even those of you in a frenzy would benefit from stepping back a little, well, go as hard as you want, but don’t let your frustration break your thirst for what is to come.
While I remember remembering…
Remember the Raid from the Heart is this weekend.
Put down your theorycraft tools and step away…
Saturday, October 16th, around 12:15 PM Kael’thas-US server time (which I think, hope is Central time, which is I think about 4.30 AM… AM! for me here in Oz on a Sunday morning… guess I can’t use the “I slept in” excuse for missing church…)
So pack your picnic lunch, throw the picnic blanket over your computer desk, run outside, grabs some ants, get back to your computer, and come for the fun.
You will understand if I am a little grumpy at 4.30am wont you…
Gnomer and Out!
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speaking as a mage who hasn’t been able to log in for more than about 10 seconds without the entire game crashing on me, and also someone who missed out on the great “Fire Mages Are Gods™” moment of 2010, i thank you for this reminder. i needed it.
I feel for you.
One of my best mates has spent the last couple of days praying in front of the login screen, without even the joy of the loading bar.
Fire Mages always were and will continue to be gods (if only in our own lunchboxes). It’s just that now we have been forced to inhabit our earthly avatars and walk amongst the common people (and boy do they smell!).
btw… My dog has no nose, don’t ask how he smells
well, at least i get to log in long enough to see the earthquakes happening in stormwind. i even made it to the auction house from the mage quarter and completed a scan and bought some replacement gems. but then, suddenly, KER-RASH — and then after every new attempt, i’d log in long enough to see myself, and then the game would go away again. i’m hoping tonight is different!
Day 4 of attempting to patch… I don’t know if…. anyone will get this message…. supplies running low…. the will to keep going is fading…. Keruthers went outside….. not back yet…. I didn’t mean it when I said I might give up my Troll oath of not cannibalizing… gah
Prelimar is right, I too missed the fire mage awesomeness of 2010 and this is a much needed post to remind us all that this is a hotfix to balance things out at level 80 until we hit Cataclysm. Said hotfix, as I understand, has not been applied to the Beta builds and awesomeness will be restored once the other classes are able to catch up to our awesomeness.
After all big fiery death is great, but if the tank is unable to hold aggro we’re not going to be dolling out the fireballs for very long before we get squished.
That said I did weep only and like a girl when I read about the nerf, I not ashamed to admit it.
grats on the achievements!
My non-trivial annoyance to this is not the nerf per se. Rather that Bliz continues to a very poor job of letting the beta/btr actual do some testing and help with quality assurance.
When you can have “the icestone has melted” or WG win crashes realm or DPS adjustments in the first 36 hours, then you really aren’t testing.
I must say that my experiences in the BGs over the last few days reinforce the importance of getting into Beta and “balancing them” bloody ball breaking battles… most one sided.
i’m waiting for we mages (and our clothie brethren) to get out the pitchforks and torches over the REAL tragedy of this Patchyclysm… the cost of repairs being changed!
if i’m going to be paying the same amount for repairs that plate wearers pay, i’d better be dying as little as plate wearers. i think it will only be fair if we are all dying about the same, and lemme tell ya, as a clothie i die FAR more often, so it seems to me that my costs are going to jump dramatically, and that’s not right.
also, from a pure RP standpoint, it’s certainly GOT to be cheaper to sew some tears and holes in fabric than to hammer some plate back together…