Fire Staff and Ice Gauntlet changes on PTR are awful

Yup my current ring is int, with hearty on it. I’m gonna wait till I get a good ring with keen/hearty as well, but hearty > keen imo. I can kite groups forever in wpvp

Do you have access to the PTR? Can you verify if the new light roll is a much shorter distance equal to the medium dodge?

I don’t but I heard the same thing, don’t know for a fact though. If it is that’s really f ING stupid since full resil Light armor dies in literally 3 hits anyways.

IDK what you smoke, the fire staff adjustments seem fair(except the crit removal from fireball like dfq?). It will still be one of the best weapons in the game, meanwhile the Musket barely changed anything, and will be literately trashier.

Bs, the musket base reload (rof) buff is insane dude. Even musket players on the PTR are saying it’s blatantly OP. It already counters mages and now users so hard, I literally get 3 to 4 shot in OPR as a light armor mage by hitscan. If they hit a powder burn I am at 50% hp. This is why they need to just increase f ING armor pen against heavy armor and not mess with the base dps, because it’s going to be absolutely broken against everything except heavy armor which it will still be trash against cause they can’t fix the core issue

Also I think fireball not critting is a bug on ptr build not intended. If it’s intended I will probably just quit.

to be honest i will quit the game if they at least don’t let fireball crit

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Ever since Vanilla WoW, I’ve seen this happen time and again. People bad at PvP cry loud because they lose to people good at PvP, and a nerf happens that screws over PvE players more than anyone else. =/

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@EMADE All the people complaining about the fireball nerfs seem not to see that it’s also getting several ability buffs that will make it massively better. PoF is garbage right now, and flamethrower has always been -slightly- underwhelming. Now it’s going to be beast.

Ur not a good FS player if u die 10 times in a war stop having ego.

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For a melee it is impossible… and here you are complaining that IG/FS gets nerfs. You are so out of touch about other builds that you shouldn’t be allowed to comment here.

Show me your 2mil+ damage games :slight_smile:

Not really beast… if you had DR and grit during the channel, sure. But that’s not the case. So good luck.

Let alone a headshot on this… try 35%, lol. Musket buffs are pretty solid, imo. Makes it an actual contender instead of garbage tier.

AMG hates wizards there is no other explanation.

They want a game only of thugs and axes.

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Yea, this is a HEINOUSLY overnerfed mess. I haven’t logged in for over a week and a half…hoping for other changes and fixes…

Seeing this has cinched it for me. This is not a game I want to spend my time playing.

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I’m not usually one of those players, but if these changes make it through to live I’ll probably quit. Straw that broke the camels back.

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Ice Gauntlet didn’t even need a nerf to ice shower considering you can just “Lol Iframe” through it. Also the fact that all these people don’t understand that once you use your kit as a caster, you’re hosed if they’re still alive which is everyone not wearing full light. The only thing that is questionable about fire staff is double proc Pillar with refreshing pillar because shit is just spammable every second if people are grouped up which in all honesty, it should be dealing a lot if you can catch 3 in that tiny ass circle. That’s more of a “stop zerging and hugging each other” issue than a damage issue. The days of heavy trades in duels/wars is only effective against bad players that don’t know how to close on casters. Yeah if you try and stay back mid range, you’re gonna lose. However any time someone’s gotten in my face after using burnout, I’ve essentially just been screwed. All in all, fire staff is probably going to benched for a lot of people if all these nerfs go through.

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every weapon is buffed? I read bow and it got mainly nerfed.

???

so a class that is built around AoE shouldn’t get #1 damage for spamming AoE damage on a point? Instead single target damage dealers should get #1 damage?

Did you really suggest that??

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I just dont get it why hammers getting buffed and axe still untouched , and mage gets huges nerfs, fire staff feels kinda unfun right now

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