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First off, thanks much for the post. All that information is awesome. Second, I'll just ask the obvious- any insights into what's going on with mastery being at the bottom of the stat priority? I find it even more surprising with arcane familiar at the top of its talent tier and the mystic kilt bein...

Having played pretty extensively into Mythic+ on beta I can tell you that currently Fire is by far the most balanced and fluid Mage spec to play and definitely one of the most balanced casters overall. You definitely won't be beating people of similar gear by 30%+ on boss fights any more but Fire i...

In conclusion, one of your reasons doesnt make sense because why would a hfc trinket affect your choice post legion patch and the other one is missing crucial information. glad you read the whole thread. more seriously, though, you seem to be pretty excited about fire and I was/am too. I just didn'...

Anybody touched arcane at all after the fire nerf 3 days ago? I feel like arcane still does decent burst.

fire nerfs?, did i miss something?

they lowered flame patch damage. https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/news/ ... s-august-1" target="_blank

It's confusing, but this current 'post-patch7.0.x' period is generally referred to as 'pre-patch' - short for 'pre-expansion patch'. Thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking it more as the pre-patch release was the old WoD, so post-patch would be with the Legion changes but before the expansion rel...

@ardomur We don't think Fire is great in Legion, because of the Pre-Patch and how they dominate (other Mage specs) in HFC. We think Fire is great because of Beta testing and Simcraft! Thanks. I wasn't sure how confident to be about the sims just yet. I also didn't realize that fire was so popular in...

@Astaine you will not be using wod gear in legion That's basically my point for the first part of my argument. Sorry for not being more clear. I'm saying that fire is overrated, right now , between the patch and when legion comes out, because of the synergy between the trinket and flame patch. When ...

Caveats: First, I'm writing this for more casual players and to get some feedback. I'm sure the more well-read players will already know most of what I'm about to say. Second, some of the legendary gear stats I'm about to quote will probably change, and I haven't been working on sims, so I'm not sur...