11-22-2007, 08:52 PM
Quote:They have invisibiity for this reason. If they can't maintain their aggro, that's their own fault. Warlocks have to deal with threat far more than Mages do and they get a half aggro wipe that can be resisted where as Invisibility cannot. I'll stick by my earlier comment of it being a frivalous change, it's not needed at all.
I'm pretty sure "balancing around mages having ice block" != "balancing around mages having an aggro wipe". Just off the top of my head, you could have a fight where you need someone to go push a button, but during some sort of blast-wave-o'-doom that does 100k damage. Mage blinks over, pushes button, ice blocks. Tada. Balancing around mages not pulling aggro? I really don't think blizzard is fond of making aggro sensitive fights anymore, because Omen turns it into a "who can watch little coloured bars best" fight. You said it yourself; if they made threatcap so low that mages are pulling aggro... well then, warlocks, shadowpriests and DPS warriors would scream bloody murder because they'd basically be able to do white damage:P
Which brings me to another allusion you're making; that mages top charts. That's just... simply not true at all. I forget who said it, but basically it boils down to this: mages compete directly with destruction warlocks for raid spots. They're called shadow mages for a reason. Besides having one for AI and water, and possibly improved blizzard but not really, there's no reason to take a mage over a destro lock at the moment because the lock just does way more damage. It frustrated me enough to reroll warlock, to be completely honest.