Why no blue asnwer about LB

#0 - Aug. 13, 2009, 6:07 p.m.

With patch 3.2 we mages got buffed and again nerfed, they said muiti LB that procs HS is overpower.

Since that day, we mages asked why its overpower, and no one asnwered. Now if u put a topic about buffing arcane here u got your asnwer.

Im not trying to fish a response from GC. but there is over 2000 replies about this nerf in the 3 separated topics and we still dont know if LB is OP for pvp, pve, etc. I hardly believe its op for pvp because u still die very easy and to the moment u get enoughs lbs in different targets and they proc...you are dead.

I wonder, what is the tradeoff of mages,? We dont have survability, dont have amazing buffs and lose to other pure dps and one or two hybrids, because or mobility is low.

This is lame.

Sorry for the bad english, this isnt my first language.

#34 - Aug. 13, 2009, 9:10 p.m.

We think Living Bomb ticks proc'ing Hot Streak was overpowered. We have said this. I think a lot of players asking why are trying to figure out what course of attack they should take to argue for buffs. That may sound cynical, but I have been reading all of these threads and many of them consist of trying to discount any reason for reverting the change so that the only course of action is to keep LB affecting HS. I even said at the time that we were trying it out.

A lot of mages seem to be assuming that we made the change because we thought mage dps was low. We made the change because we wanted Living Bomb to get a little more play. Having it affect multiple targets is a good change though and helps to do that.

Hot Streak was designed to be random. If we had wanted it to be 100% of the time, we could have designed the talent like that. Giving too many things the potential to cause Hot Streak takes the randomness out of it and just lets mages plan on it being up almost all the time. It might as well be a passive aura. Having LB ticks proc it would definitely add to its uptime, especially with LB on multiple targets.

I understand as players your goal is to try and get Hot Streak up as much as possible. But we aren't going to change the rules much to make that happen. If we think mage dps is too low, and we really don't, we'd be more likely to buff it in other ways.

I hope that clears things up, but being cynical again what I expect will happen is that this thread quickly caps and others get launched trying to argue why we made a mistake and how mages need to be buffed. That phenomenon makes us sometimes reluctant to "just answer the simple question so we can move on" requests. :)

EDIT: I said Lava Burst. LOL. GC doesn't understand the mage class.