I have never once said, “gee, I wish I had more mana!” while playing Fire Staff. The int dodge roll and “flare” talent are literally all you need for mana management on the Fire Staff. Not to mention popping regen pots which is pretty normal in most situations.
What a waste of so many passives and an armor perk.
idk, seems like someone want destroy fire mages at all. Less class to balance.
See also new items dropping in brimstone sands : all items are good only for melee classes (ring, weapons etc). For mage there is mana regen ring. Great.
All i seem to get for drops is fire staffs with +30 focus or dexterity or strength. There is no use for that unless you just want to look like a spell sword but wreck people as a melee user.
maybe they hate mages because at first they wanted a souls like game, since they nerfed every mob on the game mages can have some love now
Yeah new bis earring for Dex, countless very good rings for both str and dex, but only 1 garbage ring and 1 earring with int.
So what you’re saying is that they need to increase mana costs for mages 
so that mana management isn’t a complete joke.
ask yourself what the developers mostly play and you will have your answer.
also og mage weapons were giga op, hell even life staff w smite trucked.
as w all things nerf bat comes quick, buffs almost never do
I do miss smite
right?
Id be perfectly fine with them increasing mana costs for spells, as long as they made mana regen actually
work at the same time.
Having “ults” tied to passive mana regen is laughable as well.
Honestly runes of helios isnt that much better, forcing somebody to stay relatively still to use the benefit that dies in 2-3 hits and can literally never stand still with a player within a certain distance.
Why?
FS need more mobility and damage or CC and damage, not fckng mana regen.
It is not weapon anymore, its just match for making campfire.
yeeeep
The side joke is mages in souls games are demolishers.
In most every MMO mages are able to control their surrounders and deal high impact damage. They are generally countered by archer classes. In New World, we are countered by bow/musket but can’t control our surroundings and can easily have our gap closed and are forced to play mid/close range with our abilities. It’s really backwards.
fire mage has a dash ability but ice gauntlet has some very questionably effective slow abilities and push back options that really dont work that well.
the “dash” is the only escape with a wind up and the IG slows have been nerfed so hard.
you are correct. the damage to the magic weapons has been done. we can thank the heavy weapon fanatics for that. we were simply outnumbered.
Thats why FS have to be reverted or deleted. There is no other option.
In current state, soon noone will play FS, only few masochists or someone who don`t care about pvp.
well, luckly there is a push for pve content right now.
Bump
It really is amazing how useless it is compared to all other weapons.
I am pretty sure all these perks were designed based on Noob feedback when leveling from 1-30. If you think about it that way, it makes since
