BUFF ARCANE

Give us back active damage reduction!

Defensives

Frost had Cold Snap. Fire had Cauterize. Arcane had Greater Invisibility.

Then Fire and Frost also got GInvis. Did Arcane get something else to compensate?

No! Arcane got nothing!

Now GInvis has no damage reduction for any spec, but Fire and Frost keep their original defensives.

What is even "greater" about Greater Invisibility now?

Frost and Arcane have all the same defensives, but Frost just has them twice? How can that ever be balanced?

We are less tanky with our shield up than an Unholy DK is passively without pressing anything.

Talents & Abilities

Arcane Missiles is our very first talent point and we never cast it, which is a shame because the AoE missiles spell effect is one of the coolest in the game.
Arcane Pulse replaces Arcane Explosion, an iconic spell we've had since Classic that we could cast while moving.
Frost Mages can hide their Icicles. Sunfury Arcane cannot hide Spellfire Spheres which have no gameplay tie-in and are purely visual clutter.
The Sunfury Arcane Phoenix is orange even though a purple version already exists in the game files.
Across all forms of content, only one Hero Talent tree is currently viable (Spellslinger).

@BLIZZARD, what IS the intended identity for Arcane other than “more fragile than its alternatives without a compensating upside”? You took our funnel, execute, and survivability just to turn us into SLOP.

💩!! BUFF ARCANE SINGLE TARGET DAMAGE !! 💩

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand how to play Arcane Mage. The rotation is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the spells will go over a typical player's head. There's also the community’s nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into our playstyle, our personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The real Arcane Mage players understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of the rotation, to realize that they're not just buttons you press to do damage, they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Arcane mage truly ARE idiots, of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the subtleties in the community’s existential catchphrase "It’s clear the dev working on Arcane has never played it." which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as they try to read the Wowhead guide while standing in front of a target dummy in Silvermoon. What fools... how I pity them.

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