Feedback: Mages in Fractures in Time

After several rounds of updates to the Fire and Frost talent trees, each tree has seen a significant boost in power, which in turn has put their overall throughput quite a bit higher than their live counterparts. While some gain in power is to be expected due to these changes, their current tuning has them quite a bit higher than we intend. Due to this, in the latest build we’re reducing the damage of many of their spells to get us a better baseline to work from for the two specs. This should make it easier for us to continue to iterate on tuning based on internal and external testing as the Fractures in Time PTR continues to develop.

The intent with these tuning changes is not to disrupt the current flow, playstyles, or talent builds that have arisen with the updates but rather keep the relative balance and breakdown of abilities similar as the are now but with just a bit less output.

• Fire
  • Living Bomb damage increased by 12%.
  • Pyroblast damage reduced by 12%.
  • Fireball damage reduced by 5%.
  • Fire Blast damage reduced by 12%.
  • Phoenix Flames damage reduced by 12%.
  • Ignite damage reduced by 6%.
  • Scorch damage reduced by 10%.
  • Flamestrike damage reduced by 10%.
  • Flamepatch damage reduced by 10%.
  • Unleashed Inferno damage bonus during Combustion increased to 50% (was 45%).
  • Fixed an issue that caused the Critical Mass effect to be granted the full value at rank 1.
• Frost
  • Glacial Assault’s chance to trigger increased to 25% (was 15%).
  • Cryopathy duration increased to 60 seconds (was 30 seconds).
  • Glacial Spike damage reduced by 4%.
  • Ice Lance damage reduced by 12%.
  • Frozen Orb damage reduced by 12%.
  • Blizzard damage reduced by 12%.
  • Comet Storm damage reduced by 12%.
  • Ray of Frost damage reduced by 12%.
  • Flurry damage reduced by 12%.
  • Frostbolt damage reduced by 12%.
  • Fixed an issue with Thermal Void’s Ice Lance extending Icy Veins longer than intended.
  • Fixed an issue with the Icicle damage double dipping with Glacial Spike’s Mastery bonus.

Thank you for the great amount of feedback and testing during the Fractures in Time PTR. You’ve been instrumental to development of the Mage updates.