03-03-2006, 06:05 AM
MongoJerry,Mar 2 2006, 11:38 AM Wrote:I suspect that mages on Tich are more geared than those on most servers, since Tich has so many active raiding guilds on both sides. However, I have to recognize the "silent majority" of players who aren't involved in major raiding guilds. We see and notice the major raiding guild mages, but we don't notice the struggling player in blues and greens who play only a few hours a week. Even still, the TOEP doesn't drop every week. In fact, our guild has had very few of them drop even though we've been raiding MC for more than a year, so not even all raiding guild mages necessarily have access to dual trinkets.
This doesn't negate your arguments in any way, and I get your points. One of my guild's mages even created a Remove Arcane Power thread on the Blizzard forums that started a major uproar. I think it's good that mages will be getting the next talent overhaul, since it seems like mages have only a limited number of choices for talent builds and could definitely use some review. Maybe that review will alleiviate some of your concerns. However, in the meantime, I'm happy about the breakup of the dual trinkets. I don't like so much burst damage being available, and if this change nerfs it a little bit and makes trinkets that give sustained damage more desireable, I think that's a good thing.
By the way the TOEP still isn't garbage. Even without Arcane Power, it adds a healthy dose of damage. Maybe mages might realize that they can do damage more than once every three minutes.
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Definitely not garbage. So far as I have read the effect counts each individual hit in an AoE attack as one spell, reducing the bonus for each one (as well as activated abilities such as Presence of Mind, and even Arcane Power itself). It would provide a larger boost right off, but would limit your spell choices after the fact to keep from using up the whole bonus. (It would not be fun to have to waste the few early big hits on a frost nova, just to keep yourself alive.)