@Community-Team @Luxendra @Shadow_Fox @Aenwyn
It’s ridiculous at this point. The FS is so bad compared to other weapons animations and skills. It’s becoming a lot of not fun. Show us how you all dodge 20 arrows and bullets flying at you from across the field constantly while staggering you. Show us how you get to a base without being gunned/bowed down by a horde of snipers across the field out of our attack range dealing head shot damage. Show us how you can fight with these 2-3 second animation locks when we cast. Show us how well the knockback on FS works in a mob of melee literally stunning us into oblivion. Show us how we stay ranged against said melee that have grit and charges that fire off like lightning. Show us how we deal with Ice storm casting on top of us constantly. Show us how we deal with fireballs not shooting while the animation plays out. Why do i have to look up in the sky to shoot it more than 30m? I challege you all to prove FS isn’t broken. It’s all over the forums with no responses from CM’s. Can someone tell Devs to fix the caster weapons that are out of wack and have been for several months on end if not since launch. It’s crosssing a threshold for us and you need to address it and not 7-12 more months from now.
Edit: Took this awesome quote from a non caster on the forums just now… “Once you’ve accept that mages in New World are 3rd class citizens you can then make your peace” Thanks @Fearless such true words.
I would love to see this, put just one melee to hit one basic atack at him, and i want to see what he will do.
They’ll conclude they need to nerf FS more when one realizes they can solo 2 wolves at the same time.
I challenge you to proof that firestaff is broken. Record your next OPR playing firestaff and then we will see if maybe your playstyle is just bad.
I’d rather tell devs to play heavy armor in OPR or play as a tank. So they understand how useless and unbalanced everything is.
Its pretty transparent they dont play mage and on the off-chance they actually do its probably the FT/pylon no-hands-allowed combo which is only usefull in a 1v1 or in Arena with a healer. Its comedic that the abilities that are the most braindead are the ones most rewarding. Utter design failure.
Agreed! Do a duo stream 1 tank and 1 mage queue together for “charity,” I would pay to see this.
Fisrestaff needs better mobility and a proper cc/stun. It needs to be strong at range as bow is right now. Flamethrower playstyle is bad and a complete wrong direction.
Firestaff needs a total rework of the abilities (except fireball) and some dead passives need to change, should be more punishing.
My proposal is
Meteor shower needs to change so it wont lock us into the ground.
Pillar of Fire needs a larger radius and better passives
Incinerate is to hard to land we need a faster animation and maybe to inflict slow after pushback.
Burn out is again to slow, and it’s the only escape firestaff has, too easy to counter it… Maybe add a grit to it.
Trial by fire is just bad… needs rework
Singe is also a dead passive… it’s to hard to land, it’s single target and it’s not punishing at all…
Maybe add the ability to firestaff so it can headshot too and for that to inflict burning and slow (dazed), remove stacks for a stronger damage. Headshots are harder to land so it need to be more punishing.
I would love to see this. Intelect weapons are in a terrible state right now.
Also I love to test it on an M10 mutaton, or trying to enter a group of a m10 mutation linking their gear… Mages are not good and forgotten also for end game PVE content and their should have one of the best DPS of the game.
It is sad, cause is a beautiful game and we love this game so much… but Devs don´t take care of mages, it seems they don´t play as mages and don´t test… the unbalance is tremendous, because of that Magic needs a complete redesign… not only a couple of buffs.
Fire staff should have one of the highest DPS of the game… please test properly on an M10 mutation comparing other builds… mages are simpliy out of endgame PVE, cause we don´t have enough DPS
Basic/Heavy attacks:
they feel really slow/underpowered, you are delayed a lot of time after casting… it feels not rewarding and is not fair comparing a mele basic attack, cause melle while attaking advance a couple of metters and aply stagger.
Pilar of Fire:
Standing to cast an ability and tryiing to aim/landing properly, while the damage comparing other abilities is not good. Needs a complete redesign or really more power. Is not rewarding staying stand for only 170% damage really dificutl to land… comparing other abilities this is ridicoulos… Penetrating shot, mele abilities that does similar damage whitout those restrictions.
Fire ball…
hmmm maybe… but damage is not too good, and is easily dodgeable and the “burning field” feels useless. Think should have more damage cause is easily dodgeable… and Fire Staff should be one of the best DPS weapons of the game.
Meteor shower:
Useless… In PVP useless (maybe the only place is in some wars, but majory of players don´t play wars). IN PVE: not good DPS.
Incinerate: lot of time to cast, bad range, and grit only with perk…
Bournout: Lot of time to cast, and dont have grit.
Flametrowheer: I think is the only decent skill and they want to nerf it… and we are forced to use flametowher cause other skills simply are bad…
secondary abilities: We have a lot of usefull secondary abilities on Ice gauntlet/Fire Staff… No… we don´t need “X” mana after hit, cause we use… “MANA POTIONS”… so all those “mana skills” are pointless…
Trial of fire 120 sec cooldown with that little damage?
Pyromania and Heat up: Useless…
Ice gauntlet… we have other problem there…
Please… Just test it! we are not crying, we want MORE diversity!!! and a mage should have advantage vs a Melee… and disadvantage vs rangers (musket/bow) but… we have disadvantage vs both of them!!
Also Tanks needs more love
Yea i want them to show us how they play mages on OPR and arena on competiitive sertver like EU Dry Try.
Also would love to see duels 1 vs 1 vs some good mele players. But since devs dont play own game much, just against any not potato player. Please show us reason why you keep nerfing broken build.
fully support this. I want devs to play frostfire and see how they react. Make sure some good players are in game so we can really show you how horrible of a state mage is in.
Would love to see more livestreams from the dev team, especially PvP. I remember the Myrkgard run and the 3v3 vs streamers event.
I’d actually lol so hard if one of the devs live-streamed them selves and slapped people.
Hits every flame pillar, every ice spike; pulls off a 5v1 fort cap.
My god, imagine Dave Hall suiting up to play Mage in OPR. Dude would go 0-21 and Mages would get the fattest buff you‘ve ever seen.
The reality is though that him and his team only look at PvP from a single perspective and that‘s a Heavy Sword and Shield Bruiser. As long as Dave can hold up his Towershield to block projectiles, snare Light users to death by LMB spamming and occasionally shieldbash a Mage flamethrowering him, the game is balanced enough.
You made me spit my drink bruv 
I would say dev team playing as a heavy against a light armor, would be more fun
First they need to stream a M10 dungeon with 3 FS + Tank + Healer and get gold. After that 10 hours m10 run is finished one FS needs to queue up for opr 
Please @Community-Team, @Luxendra , prey attention to us… Mages are in a terrible State and we are forced to move to Dexterity or Strength builds… or leaving the game. We want more diversity…
I dont understand why the difference between the power of the skills… Cause the dificulty to land a pilar of fire, ice spike, the skills should do much more damage than a Expolsive arrow/penetratting shot, or any skill in the game, or just re-design it…
Bump bump bump !!!