Blizzard has posted a few things that lead me to believe they share our desire to see Mages become an elite DPS class again, on some level at least. Though Blizzard's policy of keeping the classes balanced means that we may never again be considered the top DPS class, we can at least hope to be in the same ballpark as other DPS classes, to at some point see the day when a good Mage can top a good Warlock on the damage meter, if they play their cards right.
There are two parts in telling the mage's state. Read more about it.
Overall Concerns
DPS balance:
We've gone through an entire expansion playing the role of second-class DPS citizens to the likes of Warlocks, Hunters, and Rogues. We want a return to being DPS kings, or at the very least, the ability to be competitive relative to skill.
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It will be nearly impossible to gauge the status of this concern until more of the class-balancing is finished, but I can say that in the beta currently, things are encouraging. Our damage output is high--higher in relation to other DPS classes than I can remember it being since the vanilla WoW era. The best part? It's high across all three trees, which means Mages may finally be able to pick their spec based on personal preferences and play-style, instead of based on the accepted raiding tree of the day.
Frost/Fire-immune targets:
In our current talent set-up, it is simply not a viable option to have a Frost Mage switch to using Fire spells when they run up against Frost-resistant mobs, or vice-versa. Using spells from an off-spec school consumes too much mana and produces too little DPS. When presented with a target that is immune to our chosen school of spells, we are rendered impotent. When entering any instance where we know we will be encountering a significant number of mobs that are resistant to our chosen school, we are almost forced to respec or be replaced in the group.you can buy wow gold here.
The catch-all solution Blizzard has offered us to this problem is the introduction of Frostfire Bolt. This is a resources comparison, and is largely successful. It benefits from any talent that affects either Fire or Frost spells, and so is a viable nuke when presented with a mob that is immune to whichever tree we've specced into. The problem I see with the spell is that, unless you spec into an elementalist build to take advantage of talents from both trees specifically to buff your Frostfire Bolt spell, the spell just isn't useful for anything else. And to be honest, no matter how you distribute your talents right now in the beta, an elementalist build simply isn't nearly as worthwhile as speccing into one of the other three trees, damage-wise. Not to mention that a spec that requires you to presidential election cast one and only one spell over and over is incredibly dull.
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