Mages in 1,9 and expansion.

[Sinarion]

Mages

Two rather good questions posed by mages during both days. One question involved the slide from Rob Pardo that listed Mages as the prime DPS class. “Why then do we consistently get out DPS’d by warriors and hunters at high levels? I would really like to be this DPS class rather than a water vending machine.â€� Chilton comes to the aid of Rob here. The problem he states isn’t that the dev team has some how nerfd mage dps but that more and more resist gear has entered the game to reduce the overall effectiveness of spell DPS. A pyroblasting mage is obviously gonna see a drop in DPS against people wearing MC gear. So he promised that included in 1.9 will be the concept of spell penetration, so all casters in general can start to cut through those big resistances. A second mage asked about back in beta when the mage class used to have Invisibility. “If NE hunters can aim shot while stealthed why can’t mages have invis back?â€� The statue speaks up here, he says that invisibility wasn’t actually removed from game play because of pyroblasting mages, but because whole groups of mages were using invisibility to sneak past content in dungeons. After this Chilton gets a huge smile on his face and leans in to whisper into the mic “Look for invisibility to return in the expansion. Who knows it might just be one of those new talents.â€�

[xen]

So he promised that included in 1.9 will be the concept of spell penetration

Wasn't +hit with spells introduced for precisely this reason?

[Gorlom]

isnt an aoe mage impossible to outdmg unless your an aoe warlock... (and got sufficient ammount of enemies ofc =) )

im getting a feeling healing classes are getting screwed when every other dmg class just get upgrades...

BUFF PRIESTS AND DRUIDS!

[Morlog]

are you drunk brother? that makes no sense at all

[Sinarion]

Im confused as well

[Late]

BUFF PRIESTS!

Makes perfect sense to me!

[Sinarion]

Buff priest with what?

[Late]

Oh, don;t get me started

[Lateralus]

Oh, don;t get me started

you wanna be able to make water as well or??

BUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFF WARLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE ENED MORE RESISTANCE AND MORE HP AND MORE INSTA SPELL AND WE WANTS VANISH AS WELL YES WE DO

[Zilver]

Since we're talking about buffs,

I want to be able to stealth and vanish and be able to sap people,

I want to be able to bubble up when im at low health, oh and while in a bubble still be able to hit people,

Talking about bubbles, i want a ranged execute that cannt be missed/dodged/parried/resisted. Of course this bubble lets this ranged execute thru,

I want to be able to nuke from a distance outputting 2k crits,

I want to be able to root/sheep someone till i get bored 3 hours later, after which i'll nuke it from 100 miles away to death in 3 sec,

I want to be able to mind control someone and throw them off cliffs,

and this is just for my christmass list, ill be back with my newyears list.

[Kiteshavara]

I would like to know why sinarion have bin lades as his avatar.

[Fenz]

It has stop in it too but i block moving gifs etc but saw stop before.

[Sinarion]

Bin laden? Thats me on the picture.

[flame]

Bin laden? Thats me on the picture.

HEHE

[Gorlom]

nah morlog. im this way naturally without outside stimula(sp?) when im happy and carefree =)

http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20000612.html

beeing the cause of the smile on my face today =)


OH and you dont need to mind anything i posted today =)