Thursday, May 29, 2008

Some WotLK Talent Ideas

Thoughts: http://www.war-tools.com/t53376.html

It's inevitable the trees will probably be taken down for being too similar to the real alpha trees, but whatever. My initial thoughts on the existing WoTLK trees are:
  • A few of the PvE DPS talents are simply too weak.
  • There's still some horrible talents that don't scale. (5/10 spell pen on Arc Sub?)
  • Some talents can be tweaked to be less awful by constraining them. (Wand Spec)
  • Dispel is a problem for the class, but anti-dispel talents are generally gay RNG crap.
  • Frost is way bloated and impossible to spec. Changed a lot of the 5 pointers to 3 pointers and even then, it's near impossible.
  • Imp Blizzard isn't worth 3 talent points but is a neat toy.
  • Icy Veins CD too short for 11 points deep -- causes weirdness.
  • Pushback protection on Frozen Core.
  • Make Pyro not suck.
  • Make Burnout not suck.
  • Make Fiery Payback what it really is -- mage eye for an eye.
  • Make Winter's grasp strong without making it necessary in PvE.
  • Make Imp Blink more meaningful.
  • Change random crap for no reason to make mages imba.
  • Waste everyone's time.
I think I succeeded on at least one or two of those bullet points. I've said this other places but really what I'd like to see is mage gameplay change up a bit -- I'm hoping mages have better options than simply spamming instants and being perma-dispel-trained in every bracket. Obviously any class can say this. Warriors against 4dps teams. Warlocks against, well, everything. Hopefully, every class gets the type of changes that force more diverse/creative play. ^^

7 comments:

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huck said...

as long as they keep giving melee anti-kite moves all mages will be able to do is spam instant casts. Might as well just roll boomkin, at leat they got high amounts of armor.

I always though 'noinch' was noise.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

cut that wotlk shit out

nobody cares about wow anymore

JimmyHoffa said...

As dispel protection what if mages got a buff spell similar to UA? It'd be limited to 1 friendly target at a time (to keep it from being OP) and when it was dispelled the purge spammer would get hit with damage and a silence. Call it feedback, make it an instant arcane spell with a 30 yard range and it'd be trainable at say, level 74.

It'd give the mage some interesting new tactics and the ability to protect their allies or themselves.