Caster Changes in 4.2 (RIP Casters)

[EllieShadeflare]

If I could reach into the monitor and somehow slap you, I would.

You made a wall of text to state what everyone already knows and is common sense. What you're trying to do is conflate past changes with these in this patch. What is actually at play in this patch, with all other actions remaining constant, is that they are removing a nerf. What they think, which is what you think, is that the un-nerf, plus the other changes they have made, over time, to the class will fix the class.

This is incorrect. The buff isn't a buff. It's a de-nerf. The change to our base damage is an un-nerf.

You're just sprattling off, without even realizing that you're not making an argument against an argument that is actually being made.

So you didn't read anything. Not even the fact that we have that we have Umbral Hearts to give more Fire IVs to throw around, thereby increasing the total damage vs. our Fire rotation vs the 4x Fire IV rotation from HW tells you anything?

Not even the 2.8s cast is a buff?

Not even realizing that we have a bigger spell, Foul, that was designed to offset the potency per cast?

Heck, just put in the numbers now. Enochian's current 10%, which has existed since 4.0, objectively makes the return of 280 base potency all that much stronger versus the HW numbers.

What looks like a de-nerf is a buff, when you include the other changes that are about that ability

but sure we can just cherry pick what we want to make our own conclusions, context is deeeeeeeeeeead

TL;DR, you'd be right but only in a vacuum.