12-24-2004, 06:02 AM
Bolty,Dec 24 2004, 02:56 AM Wrote:This is really excellent stuff, Skan. Reading over it reminds me of how many changes the mage went through during beta...
...and also of how many nerfings the poor mage has suffered since phase 2.
Frost Nova with 25 second cooldown? Ye gods!
-Bolty
I've gathered that in the past, mages were some sort of godlike killing machines, necessitating beatings with the nerf stick. Having never played CB, I never experienced that period, and for all the time I've been playing the mage has been anything but a killing machine. The beatings, however, continue. Blizzard doesn't seem to have gotten the message - feeling twice burned, I suppose, on the D1 Sorcerer and LoD Sorceress. Objectively, I'd rank the mage's power level now as either lowest or second-lowest, depending on how well the Druid changes hold up.
Naturally, I'm having a lot of fun with my mage and wouldn't stop playing her for the world, but then again, I have been a member of your Friendly Neighborhood Variant Scum before and am no stranger to having fun with low-power characters.
Anyway, I suspected that Frost Nova's cooldown had been something other than 25 seconds before, just because of Improved Frost Nova. I can't imagine that even the usual Blizzard crack monkeys could have possibly thought a whole 4 seconds off a 25 second cooldown would ever really mean anything.