Chad Mages What else would you want right now for our class

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Sooo much text... well, I'll just comment on your first post:

I kind of wish either that Despair had a 2.8s cast or even that F4/B4 had 3.0s casts so that optimal use of Triplecast was a little more flexible.

Aside from that, I want to see more fire/ice symmetry, especially with AoEs:

Fire2 and Blizzard2 are both targeted, 80 potency AoEs with 2.5s cast times and 800mp casting costs. A late-game trait makes them grant three stacks of their respective buff on hit, just like F3/B3, so B2 becomes the go-to way to recover stacks post-death or after some other loss while F3 shifts to fire mode during your AoE rotation.

Meanwhile, Freeze gets a 4.0s base cast time like Flare so spamming it isn’t attractive.

Well I don't agree that they should change Despairs or F4 / B4 cast times, but you are right that it would make the optimal use of Triplecast more flexible.

But the whole change to F2 / B2 and Freeze? Hell no, you try to fix more than what it broken.

Especially when your Blizzard 2 is just a worse version of the Freeze we already have. And your change to Freeze is unnecessary when Fire 2 grants full AF stacks. The reason that spamming Freeze is more effective than using Fire 2 is because we lose too much damage when we single target switch with Fire 3 into AF. Fire 2 (under AF3) does more damage than Freeze.

All what is needed is a way to build AF3 with an aoe skill wich doesn't burn away all your mana. And Fire 2 could become that skill. With that simple change the 35-50 Freeze spam would end.


And trying to Make Blizzard 2 viable is a waste of time, because there is just no need to fit a weak extra skill into UI. When we have a slow mana tic we already can use another Freeze, a Thundercloud Procc or a Foul.

Blizzard 2 becomes the go-to way to recover stacks after a death? With only 80 potency? Sorry, but even the Freeze we have now with it's 100 potency is weaker than Blizzard 3, except when you can hit more than 1 target of course. And even in AoE it would still be better to start with Freeze, even at a 4 second cast, because you will need the Umbral Heart for double Flare afterwards.

Just upgrade Blizzard 2 into Freeze so we can get rid of that useless extra button.