Real classy stealth arcane nerf

#0 - Jan. 27, 2009, 3:20 p.m.

You know, when they nerfed Ret Pallies DPS there were weeks of posts justifying it and alot of discussion, so why do you decide to nerf arcane mages PvE damage fairly significantly, in three different ways, without even telling us its happening? "Ah well, they'll figure out why their DPS is lower eventually, I don't feel like making a post".

1. Arcane Barrage can no longer clip arcane missles for the arcane blast buff (figured this would be fixed soon).
2. Arcane Blast Glyph is apparently only 3% per stack instead of 5%.
3. Arcane Blast Glyph bonus damage is no longer applied to arcane missiles.

There's always FFB to go back to, but arcane was alot more fun while it lasted. Thanks for the warning and the opportunity to discuss the nerfs!

Ghostcrawler

#40 - Jan. 27, 2009, 7:16 p.m.

Q u o t e:
1. Arcane Barrage can no longer clip arcane missles for the arcane blast buff (figured this would be fixed soon).
2. Arcane Blast Glyph is apparently only 3% per stack instead of 5%.
3. Arcane Blast Glyph bonus damage is no longer applied to arcane missiles.

1. This change was by design. While it might have been a fun test of skill, the fact is that Arcane is probably too powerful in PvE and PvP and we didn't want to make matters worse with this little trick.
2. This change was also by design. As many players have pointed out, it was just too good.
3. This is a bug likely caused by the previous two changes. Such is the risk of making changes quickly. We can hotfix this bug out though.