I don't like pet gameplay so was quite happy when the bear got nerfed. However, I don't like how their solution is tied to number of animal companion abilities slotted.
Ice staff needs to be changed back to DPS. The snare and immob is useless in pve even for a tank.
My Main is a Magden and I honestly wish I could test him out post-nerfmire but given the horrible ping issues NZ / AUS players are still experiencing after nearly 2 months (with no answers from ZoS) I haven't been able to do much except craft. Pre-Murkmire I was getting 28-30k on a 6 mil dummy wearing Siroria, Necropotance, Zaan and an vMA inferno on the backbar. I could probably have gotten it higher with more practice and less ping though lol. I also don't run bear, i found him too big a pain to use in trial runs or dungeons. He's good solo though if im having a lazy day.
I would like to see changes people have already mentioned on the forums, including making Ice dps viable. Give tanking a staff where they can have an entire skill line dedicated to magic tanking and everyone will be happy imo. I do wish if they made ice viable, some ice damage sets other than the two i've mostly seen people talking about on forums. My ultimate dream with my boy is full ice mage and ice sets, i like the theme.
The class itself has lots of promise and its personally my favorite because its fun and rotation /skills are interesting to use. At the moment, i really feel like it hasn't changed much aside from previous patches so it's not great but its not terrible either.
f047ys3v3n wrote: »5) All it's synergies with ice are useless since you can't run an ice staff because of the taunt anyway.
f047ys3v3n wrote: »5) All it's synergies with ice are useless since you can't run an ice staff because of the taunt anyway.
You will not taunt if you do not put points into Tri-focus, which there is no reason to do if you're running an ice staff. I don't get why this is so hard for people to understand.
f047ys3v3n wrote: »5) All it's synergies with ice are useless since you can't run an ice staff because of the taunt anyway.
You will not taunt if you do not put points into Tri-focus, which there is no reason to do if you're running an ice staff. I don't get why this is so hard for people to understand.
It’s hard to understand because if you do put points in tri-focus you get + single target damage with inferno and + aoe damage with shock staves and a poor ‘tuant’ with an ice staff.
You remove those points and you have an ice staff that gets nothing, an inferno that gets nothing and a shock staff that gets nothing. That is the issue, putting ice staff taunt onto tri-focus is silly logic. I believe this thread is about magwarden dps and the bottom line is if you want to run a frost warden dps in PvE it falls behind a magwarden that would run double inferno and for grouped mobs also behind a shock staff. The only benefit a frost staff with no tri-focus brings is crowd control.