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I'm just wondering about the remark, that they are also going to change three feats. The only sense that would make, would be if they just change the capstone feats in the paragon feat tree, IMHO.
Fire Pillar
Sudden Fire
Malestrom of Fire Chaos
Firefury
Fire Spell
Eye of the Fire
Flaming Pillar
Sudden Flame
Maelfire of Chaos (thanks to uurbs)
Burning Fury
Incendiary Spell
Heart of the Flame
The fire adds Smolder.
You charge the new At-Will to increase the radius and damage of the spell. It's actually really, really cool.
Also they basically offer no CC. If they take CC away, then they must buff damage, yet for now I don't think it's true. And no EotS? Common...
I only had limited time in testing these so I might have missed stuff, most probably.
"fire pillar" has a big area effect, charge isnt too bad but it locks onto targets/cannot cast where you want. also its damage is mediocre, does around 600 damage at full charge.
swath of destruction/conflag features are pretty nice. but it depends if they improve smoulder.
New encounter is okay, bugged on mastery so hard to tell.
New daily has a 5 target cap, so useless unless they change that. sucks things up into the middle like singularity but alot faster. Damage is bad too (does less damage than a shard)
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huh? storm gives cc before? how they take it away? are we playing the same game? i dont even know
It's not that the few "storm" features we have (which we used to think they are an integral part of our mages because they were with us for so long) offer CC or not. It's the new features that offer almost none, that's all. And not enough damage compared to storm.
Oppressor tree makes use of chill. Thuama tree will still get the biggest benefit from chilling cloud as at-will, so how often are you going to use the new at-will that takes so long to charge and only seems to hit 1 target. Renegade tree is mainly going to benefit from Magic Missiles and arcane stacks, the new feat does allow an encounter to gain arcane stacks, but arcane stacks already builds up and disappears so quickly, it doesn't change much.
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In a nutshell: new path is not THAT bad as you think. It's not OP either, more like balanced in terms of damage. In terms of overall usability it slightly worse than spellstorm (I mean, only one or two specific builds with specific gears work cool with fire, while rest are utter <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>. And spellstorm just offers more diversity).
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Rene, single target. Thaumaturge could be cool, I guess, but just for pve aoe dps, in combo with 2nd CW, who do the CC stuff for you, since you gonna lack CC skills.
I dont like thaumaturge myself - wayyy to much of useless feats there.
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In PvP, I do not think is the top class, while in PvE gets along quite well.
I dont like the sound of some spell, like Sudden Flame.
The sound of this spell is annoying, and it seems to me inappropriate. I would have preferred a less annoying and repetitive sound of that sort of scream: I would suggest something related to the crackling of a 'camping' flame, or a 'puff' of wind.
For the rest, I will let you know my impressions when I get to an appropriate level.
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